Belgium 1919 federal election
Final results from ParlGov, read : Catholic Party won 73 of 186 seats with 35.2% of the vote; 88.5% of registered voters cast a ballot.
- Belgium
- Held
Result
94 for a majority
- Catholic Party73
- Belgian Labour Party70
- Liberal Party34
- Front Party / Flemish National Union5
- Unnamed party with one seat4
Seats and votes by party
| Party | Seats | % | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Belgian Labour Party | 70 | 36.6 | 645,124 |
| Catholic Party | 73 | 35.2 | 619,911 |
| Liberal Party | 34 | 17.6 | 310,876 |
| Other parties (seats only) | 4.7 | 82,006 | |
| Front Party / Flemish National Union | 5 | 3.5 | 60,814 |
| Unnamed party with one seat | 4 | 2.4 | 41,888 |
| Largest party without seats | 0.1 | 1,181 |
Votes by party
- Belgian Labour Party 645,124
- Catholic Party 619,911
- Liberal Party 310,876
- Other parties (seats only) 82,006
- Front Party / Flemish National Union 60,814
- Unnamed party with one seat 41,888
- Largest party without seats 1,181
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
88.5% of the 2,102,710 registered voters cast a ballot (1,860,890 ballots). 1,761,802 of them were valid votes. How turnout is counted.
How the result is shaped
Belgian Labour Party led Catholic Party by 1.4 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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