2019 Belgian regional elections

The regional parliaments have limited power over their own election; federal law largely regulates this and the federal government organises the elections, which occur per Article 117 of the Constitution on the same day as the European Parliament elections.

As such, all regional parliaments were elected using proportional representation under the D'Hondt method. Only Belgian citizens in Belgium had the right to vote, and voting was mandatory for them. Belgians living abroad were allowed to vote in European and federal elections, but not in regional elections.

The following timetable is fixed for the simultaneous European, federal and regional elections:

2019 Flemish parliamentary election

26 May 2019 (2019-05-26)
All 124 seats in the Flemish Parliament 63 seats needed for a majority
Turnout	92.2%
First party Second party Third party   Leader Bart De Wever Filip Dewinter Hilde Crevits Party N-VA VB CD&V Leader's seat Antwerp Antwerp West Flanders Last election 43 seats 6 seats 27 seats Seats before 42 6 27 Seats won 35 23 19 Popular vote 1,052,252 783,977 652,766 Percentage 24.8% 18.5% 15.4% Swing 7.06 12.58 5.08   Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party   Party Open Vld sp.a GROEN Last election 19 seats 18 seats 10 seats Seats before 19 18 9 Seats won 16 13 14 Popular vote 556,630 438,589 428,696 Percentage 13.1% 10.3% 10.1% Swing 1.01 3.64 1.41
Flemish Government before election Bourgeois Government N-VA–CD&V–Open Vld coalition Elected Flemish Government Jambon Government N-VA-CD&V-Open Vld coalition

Number of seats per constituency in Flanders

124 members of the Flemish Parliament were elected. The five Flemish provinces (West Flanders, East Flanders, Antwerp, Flemish Brabant and Limburg) each were a constituency, plus the Brussels-Capital Region where those voting for a Dutch-language party could also vote in the Flemish election.

The incumbent Bourgeois Government was made up of a coalition of Flemish nationalists (N-VA), Christian democrats (CD&V) and liberals (Open Vld). The incumbent Minister-President was Geert Bourgeois (N-VA). The three-party centre-right government coalition had a comfortable majority.

In the October 2018 local elections, no major shifts occurred, although N-VA and sp.a lost some support while Vlaams Belang and Groen generally gained votes. CD&V and Open Vld remained stable.

Incumbent Minister-President Bourgois (N-VA) contended in the simultaneous European Parliament elections; N-VA president Bart De Wever (N-VA) was their party's candidate to succeed him as head of the Flemish Government. Minister Hilde Crevits was CD&V's candidate for Minister-President. Open Vld explicitly did not put forward a candidate.

Main candidates

The following candidates are the first on the respective party list (lijsttrekker) per constituency.

Party		Antwerp	East Flanders	Flemish Brabant	Limburg	West Flanders	Brussels
	CD&V	Koen Van den Heuvel	Joke Schauvliege	Peter Van Rompuy	Lode Ceyssens	Hilde Crevits	Benjamin Dalle
	Groen	Meyrem Almaci	Bjorn Rzoska	An Moerenhout	Johan Daenen	Jeremie Vaneeckhout	Stijn Bex
	N-VA	Bart De Wever	Matthias Diependaele	Ben Weyts	Steven Vandeput	Bert Maertens	Karl Vanlouwe
	Open Vld	Bart Somers	Carina Van Cauter	Gwendolyn Rutten	Lydia Peeters	Bart Tommelein	Else Ampe
	PVDA	Jos D'Haese	Tom De Meester	Sander Vandecapelle	Kim De Witte	Natalie Eggermont	Nele Vandenbempt
	sp.a	Caroline Gennez	Conner Rousseau	Bruno Tobback	Els Robeyns	Annick Lambrecht	Bert Anciaux
	Vlaams Belang	Filip Dewinter	Guy D'haeseleer	Klaas Slootmans	Chris Janssens (politician)	Stefaan Sintobin	Frédéric Erens

Results

 Summary of the results of the 26 May 2019 Belgian election to the Flemish Parliament

2019
Party		Leader(s)	Votes	%	+/–	Seats	+/–
	New Flemish Alliance (N-VA)	Bart De Wever	1,052,252	24.83	7.06	35 / 124	8
	Flemish Interest (VB)	Tom Van Grieken	783,977	18.50	12.58	23 / 124	17
	Christian Democratic & Flemish (CD&V)	Wouter Beke	652,766	15.40	5.08	19 / 124	8
	Open Flemish Liberals and Democrats (Open VLD)	Gwendolyn Rutten	556,630	13.13	1.01	16 / 124	3
	Socialist Party Differently (sp.a)	John Crombez	438,589	10.35	3.64	13 / 124	5
	Green (Groen)	Meyrem Almaci	428,696	10.11	1.41	14 / 124	4
	Workers' Party of Belgium (PVDA)	Peter Mertens	225,593	5.32	2.80	4 / 124	4
	DierAnimal	Constance Villalon	36,944	0.87	New	0 / 124	0
	Union of Francophones (UF)	Collective leadership	28,804	0.68	0.15	0 / 124	1
	Pirate Party		9,148	0.22	0.40	0 / 124	0
	PRO		5,685	0.13	New	0 / 124	0
	D-SA		4,569	0.11	New	0 / 124	0
	Be.One		4,064	0.10	New	0 / 124	0
	PV&S		2,813	0.07	New	0 / 124	0
	Genoeg vr iedereen		2,650	0.06	New	0 / 124	0
	Burgerlijst		2,033	0.05	New	0 / 124	0
	RP		1,659	0.04	New	0 / 124	0
	De Coöperatie		1,402	0.03	New	0 / 124	0
Valid votes			4,238,274	95.05
Blank and invalid votes			220,790	4.95
Totals			4,459,064	100.00	—	124	0
Electorate (eligible voters) and voter turnout			4,838,566	92.16
Source: Federal Public Services Home Affairs

2019 Walloon parliamentary election

26 May 2019 (2019-05-26)
All 75 seats in the Walloon Parliament 38 seats needed for a majority
Turnout	93.4%
First party Second party Third party   Leader Elio Di Rupo Charles Michel Jean-Marc Nollet Zakia Khattabi Party PS MR ECOLO Last election 30 seats, 30.90% 25 seats, 26.69% 4 seats, 8.62% Seats won 23 20 12 Seat change 7 5 8 Popular vote 532,422 435,878 294,631 Percentage 26.17% 21.42% 14.48% Swing 4.73 5.26 5.86   Fourth party Fifth party   Leader Peter Mertens Maxime Prévot Party PVDA-PTB cdH Last election 2 seats, 5.75% 13 seats, 15.18% Seats won 10 10 Seat change 8 3 Popular vote 278,343 223,775 Percentage 13.68% 11.00% Swing 7.92 4.17
Walloon Government before election Magnette Government PS–cdH coalition Elected Walloon Government Marcourt Government PS–MR–Ecolo coalition

75 members of the Walloon Parliament were elected. The members were elected in multi-member arrondissement-based constituencies; the Walloon Parliament is the only parliament in Belgium still using this geographical level for constituencies. A January 2018 law however reduced the constituencies from 13 to 11, following a successful challenge by Ecolo to the Constitutional Court that constituencies with too few seats are unrepresentative. Both Luxembourg constituencies were merged and the Hainaut constituencies were redrawn.

After the 2014 elections, a government was formed with a coalition of the Socialist Party (PS) and Christian democrats (cdH). In 2017 however, following major scandals involving mainly PS, cdH opted to continue governing with MR as the main party instead of PS. Willy Borsus (MR) succeeded Paul Magnette (PS) as Minister-President of Wallonia in July 2017. This was the first time a government majority changed during a legislative term of a Belgian regional government.[9]

Results

Results

 Summary of the results of the 26 May 2019 Belgian election to the Walloon Parliament

2019
Party		Leader(s)	Votes	%	+/–	Seats	+/–
	Socialist Party (PS)	Elio Di Rupo	532,422	26.17	4.73	23 / 75	7
	Reformist Movement (MR)	Charles Michel	435,878	21.42	5.26	20 / 75	5
	Ecolo	Jean-Marc Nollet Zakia Khattabi	294,631	14.48	5.86	12 / 75	8
	Workers' Party of Belgium (PTB)	Peter Mertens	278,343	13.68	7.92	10 / 75	8
	Humanist Democratic Centre (cdH)	Maxime Prévot	223,775	11.00	4.17	10 / 75	3
	Democratic, Federalist, Independent (DéFI)	Olivier Maingain	84,219	4.14	1.61	0 / 75	0
	People's Party (PP)	Mischaël Modrikamen	74,622	3.67	1.20	0 / 75	1
	Listes Destexhe	Alain Destexhe	30,878	1.52	New	0 / 75	0
	Collectif Citoyen		26,673	1.31	New	0 / 75	0
	Nation	Hervé Van Laethem	9,649	0.47	0.06	0 / 75	0
	Wallonie Insoumise		8,155	0.40	New	0 / 75	0
	Agir		7,146	0.35	New	0 / 75	0
	La Droite		3,407	0.17	1.22	0 / 75	0
	Communist Party of Belgium (PCB)		944	0.05	New	0 / 75	0
	Référendum		621	0.03	0.06	0 / 75	0
	Turquoise		590	0.03	New	0 / 75	0
Valid votes			2,220,443	91.64
Blank and invalid votes			185,630	8.36
Totals			2,406,073	100.00	—	75	0
Electorate (eligible voters) and voter turnout			2,563,033	93.88
Source: Federal Public Services Home Affairs

All 89 members of the Parliament of the Brussels-Capital Region were elected. They were elected at-large, but there were separate Dutch-language party lists (electing 17 members) and French-language party lists (electing 72 members). Those voting for a Dutch-language party could also cast a vote for the Flemish Parliament election.

Results

 Summary of the results of the 26 May 2019 Belgian election to the Brussels Regional Parliament

2019
Party		Lead candidate	Votes	%	+/–	Seats	+/–
French language group
	Socialist Party (PS)	Rudi Vervoort	85,530	22.03	4.56	17 / 72	4
	Ecolo	Alain Maron	74,246	19.12	9.01	15 / 72	7
	Reformist Movement (MR)	Françoise Schepmans	65,502	16.87	6.17	13 / 72	5
	Democratic, Federalist, Independent (DéFI)	Bernard Clerfayt	53,638	13.81	0.99	10 / 72	2
	Workers' Party of Belgium (PTB)	Françoise De Smedt	52,297	13.47	9.61	10 / 72	6
	Humanist Democratic Centre (cdH)	Céline Fremault	29,436	7.58	4.16	6 / 72	3
	DierAnimal	Victoria Austraet	5,113	1.32	New	1 / 72	1
	Listes Destexhe	Claude Moniquet	10,052	2.59	New	0 / 72	0
	People's Party (PP)	Nicola Tournay	6,605	1.70	0.24	0 / 72	0
	Collectif Citoyen	Raouf Ben Ammar	2,029	0.52	New	0 / 72	0
	act-SALEM	Michel Dardenne	1,496	0.39	New	0 / 72	0
	Plan B	Annick Letecheur	1,115	0.29	New	0 / 72	0
	Hé	Isabelle Praile	697	0.18	New	0 / 72	0
	be@eu	Philippe Lateur	522	0.13	New	0 / 72	0
Dutch language group
	Green (Groen)	Elke Van den Brandt	14,425	20.61	2.72	4 / 17	1
	New Flemish Alliance (N-VA)	Cieltje Van Achter	12,578	17.97	0.97	3 / 17	0
	Open Flemish Liberals and Democrats (Open VLD)	Guy Vanhengel	11,051	15.79	10.91	3 / 17	2
	Socialist Party Differently (sp.a)	Pascal Smet	10,540	15.06	4.51	3 / 17	0
	Flemish Interest (VB)	Dominiek Lootens-Stael	5,838	8.34	2.74	1 / 17	0
	Christian Democratic & Flemish (CD&V)	Bianca Debaets	5,231	7.47	3.96	1 / 17	1
	Agora	Pepijn Kennis	3,629	5.18	New	1 / 17	1
	Workers' Party of Belgium (PVDA)	Jan Busselen	2,992	4.27	New	1 / 17	1
	Be.One	Dyab Abou Jahjah	3,021	4.32	New	0 / 17	0
	DierAnimal	Catherine Khalil	691	0.99	New	0 / 17	0
Valid votes			458,274	93.35
Blank and invalid votes			32,643	6.65
Totals			490,917	100.00	—	89	0
Electorate (eligible voters) and voter turnout			588,203	83.46
Source: Federal Public Services Home Affairs

All 25 members of the Parliament of the German-speaking Community were elected in one constituency (at-large).

In the 2014–2019 period, the government was made up of regionalist ProDG, the socialist party and the liberal PFF, headed by Minister-President Oliver Paasch (ProDG).

Results by municipality

Results

 Summary of the results of the 26 May 2019 Belgian election to the German-speaking Community Parliament

2019
Party		Leader(s)	Votes	%	+/–	Seats	+/–
	Pro German Speaking Community (ProDG)	Oliver Paasch	9,146	23.33	1.13	6 / 25	0
	Christian Social Party (CSP)	Colin Kraft	9,069	23.14	1.72	6 / 25	1
	Socialist Party (SP)	Antonio Antoniadis	5,820	14.85	1.23	4 / 25	0
	Vivant	Michael Balter	5,807	14.81	4.20	3 / 25	1
	Ecolo	Freddy Mockel	4,902	12.51	2.96	3 / 25	1
	Party for Freedom and Progress (PFF)	Isabelle Weykmans	4,454	11.36	4.18	3 / 25	1
Valid votes			39,198	92.22
Blank and invalid votes			3,305	7.78
Totals			42,503	100.00	—	25	0
Electorate (eligible voters) and voter turnout			49,441	85.97
Source: Federal Public Services Home Affairs

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