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1904 Belgian general election

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1904 Belgian general election

← 1902 29 May 1904 1906 →

81 of the 166 seats in the Chamber of Representatives
43 of 87 seats in the Senate
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Paul de Smet de Naeyer Georges Maes
Party Catholic Liberal Labour
Seats won 38 22 19
Popular vote 486,643 283,411 297,847
Percentage 43.53% 25.35% 26.64%

Government before election

de Smet de Naeyer II
Catholic

Government after election

de Smet de Naeyer II
Catholic

Partial general elections were held in Belgium on 29 May 1904.[1] The result was a victory for the Catholic Party, which won 38 of the 81 seats in the Chamber of Representatives.[2]

Under the alternating system, Chamber elections were only held in the provinces of Hainaut, Limburg, Liège and East Flanders and Senate elections were only held in the remaining five provinces, being Antwerp, Brabant, Luxembourg, Namur and West Flanders.

The main issue in the election was "the hostility of the Liberals to the growth of clerical influence, particularly in educational and political affairs."[3]

Results

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Chamber

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PartyVotes%Seats
Won
Catholic Party486,64343.5338
Belgian Labour Party297,84726.6419
Liberal Party283,41125.3522
Catholic Dissidents17,3911.561
Christene Volkspartij20,7611.861
Socialist dissidents5,4490.490
Agricultural Federation3,2540.290
Independents3,1840.280
Total1,117,940100.0081
Source: Belgian Elections

Senate

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PartyVotes%Seats
WonTotal
Catholic Party511,74555.542537
Liberal Party352,02838.211639
Belgian Labour Party37,5704.0815
National Independents19,9912.1711
Radical Party04
Social Radical Party01
Total921,334100.004387
Source: Belgian Elections

References

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  1. ^ Nohlen, Dieter; Stöver, Philip (31 May 2010). Elections in Europe: A data handbook. Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft. p. 289. ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7.
  2. ^ Nohlen & Stöver, p308
  3. ^ Garner, J. W. (1904). "Record of Political Events". Political Science Quarterly. 19 (4): 746. doi:10.2307/2140340. ISSN 0032-3195.