Belgium 1904 federal election
Final results from ParlGov, read : Catholic Party won 38 of 81 seats with 43.5% of the vote; 94.0% of registered voters cast a ballot.
- Belgium
- Held
Result
- Catholic Party38
- Liberal Party22
- Belgian Labour Party19
- Christene Volkspartij1
- Unnamed party with one seat1
Seats and votes by party
| Party | Seats | % | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Catholic Party | 38 | 43.5 | 486,643 |
| Belgian Labour Party | 19 | 26.0 | 287,847 |
| Liberal Party | 22 | 25.4 | 283,411 |
| Unnamed party with one seat | 1 | 2.9 | 32,462 |
| Christene Volkspartij | 1 | 1.8 | 20,761 |
Votes by party
- Catholic Party 486,643
- Belgian Labour Party 287,847
- Liberal Party 283,411
- Unnamed party with one seat 32,462
- Christene Volkspartij 20,761
ParlGov lists parties with at least 1 percent of the vote or 2 seats, so the rows do not add up to the valid votes. How we read it.
ParlGov marks results before 1945 as experimental: they may need revision, so we compare them with no other election.
Share of the vote
Turnout
94.0% of the 1,216,735 registered voters cast a ballot (1,143,403 ballots). 1,107,940 of them were valid votes. How turnout is counted.
Votes and seats
- Catholic Party43.5% of votes46.9% of seats
- Liberal Party25.4% of votes27.2% of seats
- Belgian Labour Party26.0% of votes23.5% of seats
- Christene Volkspartij1.8% of votes1.2% of seats
The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 3.5 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 3.1 by votes and 2.9 by seats; Catholic Party led Belgian Labour Party by 17.5 points of the vote. How these are computed.
Sources and licence
Sources and licence
- ParlGov 2024 Release (Döring and Manow), Harvard Dataverse (source). Licence: CC0 1.0 Universal
- Wikidata, party colours (P465) (source). Licence: CC0 1.0 Universal
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