1974 Belgian general election

1974 Belgian general election

← 1971 10 March 1974 1977 →
212 seats in the Chamber of Representatives
First party Second party Third party   Leader Edmond Leburton Leo Tindemans Frans Grootjans Party Socialist CVP Open Vld Leader since Candidate for PM Candidate for PM 1973 Last election 25 seats, 10.40%[a] 40 seats, 18.32% 16 seats, 7.42% Seats won 59 50 30 Seat change 34 10 14 Popular vote 1,401,725 1,222,646 798,818 Percentage 26.66% 23.25% 15.19% Swing 16.26% 4.91% 7.77%   Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party   Leader Frans Van der Elst Charles-Ferdinand Nothomb André Lagasse Party VU cdH DéFI Leader since 1955 1972 1972 Last election 21 seats, 11.11% 15 seats, 6.20% 12 seats, 5.43% Seats won 22 22 14 Seat change 1 7 2 Popular vote 536,287 478,209 301,303 Percentage 10.20% 9.09% 5.73% Swing 0.91% 2.89% 0.30%
Colours denote the winning party in each electoral district (for the Chamber of Deputies). a In the 1971 election, the Belgian Socialist Party ran as its two separate language parts (owing to the recent establishment of two sub parties), however they ran as one under the Socialist prime minister for this election, with his Walloon section of the party's results showing here.
Government before election Leburton II BSP/PSB-CVP-PSC-PVV-PRL Government after election Tindemans I CVP-PSC-PVV-PRL

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General elections were held in Belgium on 10 March 1974.^[1] The Belgian Socialist Party emerged as the largest faction in the Chamber of Representatives with 59 of the 212 seats. Voter turnout was 90.3%.^[2] Elections were also held for the nine provincial councils, as well as for the Council of the German Cultural Community for the first time.

Results[]

Chamber of Deputies[]

Party	Votes	%	Seats	+/–
Belgian Socialist Party	1,401,725	26.66	59	New
Christian People's Party	1,222,646	23.25	50	+10
Party for Freedom and Progress	798,818	15.19	30	+26
People's Union	536,287	10.20	22	+1
Christian Social Party	478,209	9.09	22	+7
FDF-	301,303	5.73	14	New
Walloon Rally	269,455	5.12	11	−1
Belgian Socialist Party (Wallonia)	164,592	3.13	0	−25
Communist Party of Belgium	107,481	2.04	2	New
BSP–Red Lions	86,929	1.65	0	New
UDP	58,257	1.11	0	New
Party for Freedom and Progress (Wallonia)	20,866	0.40	0	−11
AMADA/TPO	19,794	0.38	0	New
VFP-PFU	18,511	0.35	0	New
MO	9,184	0.17	0	New
Party of German-speaking Belgians	8,700	0.17	0	New
PLW	6,846	0.13	0	New
FDP	4,729	0.09	0	New
UDP-DN	3,623	0.07	2	New
Rex Fr	2,764	0.05	0	New
RLiège	1,810	0.03	0	New
Kaganov	1,678	0.03	0	New
SAP	1,445	0.03	0	New
Diependale	1,229	0.02	0	New
A74	979	0.02	0	New
PRS	905	0.02	0	New
Zwartberg	665	0.01	0	New
Trotskyists	645	0.01	0	New
URB	389	0.01	0	New
PUR	184	0.00	0	New
Invalid/blank votes	453,108	–	–	–
Total	5,711,639	100	212	0
Source: Belgian Elections

Senate[]

Party	Votes	%	Seats	+/–
Belgian Socialist Party	1,301,722	25.11	27	New
Christian People's Party	1,219,811	23.53	27	New
Party for Freedom and Progress	755,694	14.58	16	+1
FDF-RW-	589,553	11.37	13	New
People's Union	545,215	10.52	10	New
Christian Social Party	430,512	8.30	10	New
Communist Party of Belgium	115,007	2.22	1	0
BSP–Red Lions	82,959	1.60	2	+2
UDP	60,400	1.16	0	0
Party for Liberty and Progress (Wallonia)	21,782	0.42	0	New
AMADA	16,744	0.32	0	New
Party of German-speaking Belgians	15,624	0.30	0	New
VFP	11,910	0.23	0	New
PMO	5,918	0.11	0	New
Iependael	2,874	0.05	0	New
Zwartberg	5,129	0.04	0	New
Kaganovemus	1,903	0.04	0	0
PMO/URB	1,078	0.02	0	New
A74	942	0.02	0	New
PLW	597	0.01	0	New
PUR	156	0.00	0	New
Invalid/blank votes	527,014	–	–	–
Total	5,711,729	100	106	0
Source: Belgian Elections

Council of the German Cultural Community[]

In this election, the new Council of the German Cultural Community (Rat der deutschen Kulturgemeinschaft) was directly elected for the first time; members of the council had been appointed a year earlier. The council is the precursor to the Parliament of the German-speaking Community.

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