Belgium 1921 federal election
Final results from ParlGov, read : Catholic Party won 76 of 186 seats with 39.8% of the vote; 91.1% of registered voters cast a ballot.
- Belgium
- Held
Result
- Catholic Party76
- Belgian Labour Party68
- Liberal Party33
- Catholic Dissidents4
- Front Party / Flemish National Union4
- Unnamed party with one seat1
Seats and votes by party
| Party | Seats | % | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Catholic Party | 76 | 39.8 | 768,080 |
| Belgian Labour Party | 68 | 34.9 | 674,204 |
| Liberal Party | 33 | 18.1 | 349,888 |
| Catholic Dissidents | 4 | 4.3 | 82,509 |
| Front Party / Flemish National Union | 4 | 2.8 | 54,941 |
| Unnamed party with one seat | 1 | 0.5 | 8,944 |
| Largest party without seats | 0.3 | 5,957 |
Votes by party
- Catholic Party 768,080
- Belgian Labour Party 674,204
- Liberal Party 349,888
- Catholic Dissidents 82,509
- Front Party / Flemish National Union 54,941
- Unnamed party with one seat 8,944
- Largest party without seats 5,957
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
91.1% of the 2,226,797 registered voters cast a ballot (2,029,293 ballots). 1,931,966 of them were valid votes. How turnout is counted.
Votes and seats
- Catholic Party39.8% of votes40.9% of seats
- Belgian Labour Party34.9% of votes36.6% of seats
- Liberal Party18.1% of votes17.7% of seats
- Catholic Dissidents4.3% of votes2.2% of seats
- Front Party / Flemish National Union2.8% of votes2.2% of seats
The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 2.1 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); Catholic Party led Belgian Labour Party by 4.9 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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