French-speaking electoral college
 | Parts of this article (those related to 2014 to present) need to be updated. (March 2021) |
| French-speaking electoral college | |
|---|---|
| European Parliament constituency | |
 Location among the current constituencies | |
 Shown within Belgium | |
| Member state | Belgium |
| Created | 1979 |
| MEPs | 8 |
| Sources | |
| [1] | |
The French-speaking electoral college is one of three constituencies of the European Parliament in Belgium. It currently elects 8 MEPs using the D'Hondt method of party-list proportional representation. It elected 9 MEPs until the 2007 accession of Bulgaria and Romania.
Prior to the 1999 elections, electors in the German-speaking community were voting in the French-speaking electoral college, along with the rest of the Walloon region where they are located; they vote now in their own German-speaking electoral college.
Boundaries[]
The constituency corresponds to the French Community of Belgium. In officially bilingual Brussels, electors can choose between lists of this electoral college or those of the Dutch-speaking electoral college.
Prior to the 2011–2012 state reform, electors could choose between both lists not only in Brussels, but in an area encompassing unilingually Dutch territory, Brussels-Halle-Vilvoorde. Some towns in the officially Dutch-speaking Brussels Periphery still have this option however.
Members of the European Parliament[]
2009 – 2014[]
- Frédéric Daerden, PS
- Véronique de Keyser, PS
- Anne Delvaux, CDH
- Isabelle Durant, Ecolo
- Philippe Lamberts, Ecolo
- Louis Michel, MR
- Frédérique Ries, MR
- Marc Tarabella, PS
2004 – 2009[]
- Philippe Busquin, Socialist Party
- Gerard Deprez, Reformist Movement
- Antoine Duquesne, Reformist Movement
- Alain Hutchinson, Socialist Party
- Pierre Jonckheer, Ecolo
- Véronique de Keyser, Socialist Party
- Joëlle Milquet, Democratic Humanist Centre
- Frédérique Ries, Reformist Movement
- Marc Tarabella, Socialist Party
Election results[]
2009[]
| Party | Affiliation | Votes | % | Change | Seats | Change | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Socialist Party (PS) | PES | 714,947 | 29.10 |  6.99
|
3 | 1
| |
| Reformist Movement (MR) | ELDR | 640,092 | 26.05 | 1.53
|
2 | 1
| |
| Ecolo | EGP | 562,081 | 22.88 |  13.03
|
2 | 1
| |
| Humanist Democratic Centre (CDH) | EPP | 327,824 | 13.34 | 1.80
|
1 | 0 | |
| National Front (FN) | None | 87,706 | 3.57 | 3.88
|
0 | 0 | |
| Workers Party of Belgium+ (PTB) | None | 28,483 | 1.16 | 0.35
|
0 | 0 | |
| Others | 96,045 | 3.91 | – | 0 | – | ||
| Total | 2,457,178 | 100 | – | 8 | 1
| ||
2004[]
| Party | Votes | % | Change | Seats | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Socialist Party (PS) | 878,577 | 36.09 | +10.31 | 4 | +1 |
| Reformist Movement (MR) | 671,422 | 27.58 | +0.59 | 3 | 0 |
| Democratic Humanist Centre (CDH) | 368,753 | 15.15 | +1.84 | 1 | +1 |
| Ecologists (Ecolo) | 239,687 | 9.84 | −12.86 | 1 | −2 |
| National Front (FN) | 181,351 | 7.45 | +3.35 | 0 | 0 |
| New Belgian Front (FNB) | 26,775 | 1.1 | +0.03 | 0 | 0 |
| Rassemblement Wallonie-France (RWF) | 23,090 | 0.95 | N/A | 0 | |
| CDF | 19,718 | 0.81 | N/A | 0 | |
| Workers' Party of Belgium (PTB+) | 19,645 | 0.81 | N/A | 0 | |
| Movement for a Socialist Alternative (MAS) | 5,675 | 0.23 | N/A | 0 | |
| Total | 2,434,693 | 9 | |||
References[]
- European Parliament constituencies in Belgium
- Electoral colleges
- 1979 establishments in Belgium
- Constituencies established in 1979