Belgium 1906 federal election
Final results from ParlGov, read : Catholic Party won 50 of 85 seats with 54.3% of the vote; 95.4% of registered voters cast a ballot.
- Belgium
- Held
Result
- Catholic Party50
- Liberal Party15
- Cartel of Liberals and Socialists14
- Belgian Labour Party6
Seats and votes by party
| Party | Seats | % | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Catholic Party | 50 | 54.3 | 636,446 |
| Cartel of Liberals and Socialists | 14 | 19.1 | 224,357 |
| Liberal Party | 15 | 17.7 | 207,341 |
| Belgian Labour Party | 6 | 6.2 | 72,224 |
| Christene Volkspartij | 0 | 1.0 | 12,524 |
Votes by party
- Catholic Party 636,446
- Cartel of Liberals and Socialists 224,357
- Liberal Party 207,341
- Belgian Labour Party 72,224
- Christene Volkspartij 12,524
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
95.4% of the 1,259,242 registered voters cast a ballot (1,201,778 ballots). 1,172,828 of them were valid votes. How turnout is counted.
Votes and seats
- Catholic Party54.3% of votes58.8% of seats
- Liberal Party17.7% of votes17.6% of seats
- Cartel of Liberals and Socialists19.1% of votes16.5% of seats
- Belgian Labour Party6.2% of votes7.1% of seats
The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 3.8 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 2.7 by votes and 2.4 by seats; Catholic Party led Cartel of Liberals and Socialists by 35.2 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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