Belgium 1914 federal election
Final results from ParlGov, read : Catholic Party won 41 of 88 seats with 42.8% of the vote.
- Belgium
- Held
Result
45 for a majority
- Catholic Party41
- Belgian Labour Party26
- Liberal Party20
- Christene Volkspartij1
Seats and votes by party
| Party | Seats | % | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Catholic Party | 41 | 42.8 | 570,806 |
| Belgian Labour Party | 26 | 30.3 | 404,701 |
| Liberal Party | 20 | 24.5 | 326,922 |
| Christene Volkspartij | 1 | 1.7 | 22,619 |
Votes by party
- Catholic Party 570,806
- Belgian Labour Party 404,701
- Liberal Party 326,922
- Christene Volkspartij 22,619
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
1,334,581 votes were valid. How turnout is counted.
Votes and seats
- Catholic Party42.8% of votes46.6% of seats
- Belgian Labour Party30.3% of votes29.5% of seats
- Liberal Party24.5% of votes22.7% of seats
- Christene Volkspartij1.7% of votes1.1% of seats
The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 3.0 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 3.0 by votes and 2.8 by seats; Catholic Party led Belgian Labour Party by 12.5 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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