French-speaking electoral college
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| French-speaking electoral college | |
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| 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
[edit]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.[1] In the rest of the country, voters vote according to the region in which they reside.[1]
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
[edit]2019–2024
[edit]- Marie Arena, PS
- Marc Botenga, PTB
- Saskia Bricmont, Ecolo
- Olivier Chastel, MR
- Philippe Lamberts, Ecolo
- Benoît Lutgen, CDH
- Frédérique Ries, MR
- Marc Tarabella, PS[a]
2014–2019
[edit]- Marie Arena, PS
- Hugues Bayet, PS
- Gérard Deprez, MR
- Philippe Lamberts, Ecolo
- Louis Michel, MR
- Frédérique Ries, MR
- Claude Rolin, CDH
- Marc Tarabella, PS
2009–2014
[edit]- 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
[edit]- Philippe Busquin, PS
- Gerard Deprez, MR
- Antoine Duquesne, MR
- Alain Hutchinson, PS
- Pierre Jonckheer, Ecolo
- Véronique de Keyser, PS
- Joëlle Milquet, CDH
- Frédérique Ries, MR
- Marc Tarabella, PS
Election results
[edit]2019
[edit]| Party | Affiliation | Votes | % | Change | Seats | Change | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Socialist Party (PS) | PES | 651,157 | 26.69 |  2.60
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2 | 1
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| Ecolo | EGP | 485,655 | 19.91 |  8.22
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2 | 1
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| Reformist Movement (MR) | ELDR | 470,654 | 19.29 | 7.81
|
2 | 1
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| Workers Party of Belgium (PTB) | None | 355,883 | 14.59 | 9.11
|
1 | 1
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| Humanist Democratic Centre (CDH) | EPP | 218,078 | 8.94 | 2.42
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1 | 
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| DéFI | None | 144,555 | 5.92 | 2.54
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0 |
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| People's Party (PP) | None | 113,793 | 4.66 | 1.32
|
0 |
| |
| Total | 2,439,775 | 100 | – | 8 |
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2014
[edit]| Party | Affiliation | Votes | % | Change | Seats | Change | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Socialist Party (PS) | PES | 714,645 | 29.29 | 0.19
|
3 |
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| Reformist Movement (MR) | ELDR | 661,332 | 27.10 | 1.05
|
3 | 1
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| Ecolo | EGP | 285,196 | 11.69 | 11.19
|
1 | 1
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| Humanist Democratic Centre (CDH) | EPP | 277,246 | 11.36 | 1.98
|
1 |
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| People's Party (PP) | ADDE | 145,909 | 5.98 | 5.98
|
0 |
| |
| Workers Party of Belgium (PTB) | None | 133,811 | 5.48 | 4.32
|
0 |
| |
| Francophone Democratic Federalists (FDF) | None | 82,540 | 3.38 | 3.38
|
0 |
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| Debout Les Belges! (DLB!) | None | 72,671 | 2.98 | 2.98
|
0 |
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| La Droite | None | 38,813 | 1.59 | 1.59
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0 |
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| Vega | None | 15,208 | 0.62 | 0.62
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0 |
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| Stand Up USE | None | 7,970 | 0.33 | 0.33
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0 |
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| MG | None | 4,705 | 0.19 | 0.19
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0 |
| |
| Total | 2,440,046 | 100 | – | 8 |
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2009
[edit]| 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
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| Ecolo | EGP | 562,081 | 22.88 | 13.03
|
2 | 1
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| 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
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0 | 0 | |
| Others | 96,045 | 3.91 | – | 0 | – | ||
| Total | 2,457,178 | 100 | – | 8 | 1
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2004
[edit]| 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 | |||
Notes
[edit]- ^ Paul Magnette was originally elected but he opted not to take his seat.
References
[edit]- ^ a b Realfonzo, Ugo; Chini, Maïthé (6 June 2024). "European elections guide: Which Belgian MEPs can you vote for?". The Brussels Times. Retrieved 30 June 2024.