Belgium 1912 federal election
Final results from ParlGov, read : Catholic Party won 101 of 186 seats with 51.0% of the vote; 95.4% of registered voters cast a ballot.
- Belgium
- Held
Result
- Catholic Party101
- Liberal Party44
- Belgian Labour Party39
- Christene Volkspartij2
Seats and votes by party
| Party | Seats | % | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Catholic Party | 101 | 51.0 | 1,337,315 |
| Cartel of Liberals and Socialists | 0 | 27.1 | 710,459 |
| Liberal Party | 44 | 11.1 | 290,084 |
| Belgian Labour Party | 39 | 9.3 | 243,338 |
| Christene Volkspartij | 2 | 0.7 | 19,317 |
Votes by party
- Catholic Party 1,337,315
- Cartel of Liberals and Socialists 710,459
- Liberal Party 290,084
- Belgian Labour Party 243,338
- Christene Volkspartij 19,317
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 2,814,181 registered voters cast a ballot (2,684,098 ballots). 2,621,771 of them were valid votes. How turnout is counted.
Votes and seats
- Catholic Party51.0% of votes54.3% of seats
- Liberal Party11.1% of votes23.7% of seats
- Belgian Labour Party9.3% of votes21.0% of seats
- Christene Volkspartij0.7% of votes1.1% of seats
- Cartel of Liberals and Socialists27.1% of votes0.0% of seats
The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 22.8 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 2.8 by votes and 2.5 by seats; Catholic Party led Cartel of Liberals and Socialists by 23.9 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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