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Belgium 1929 federal election

Final results from ParlGov, read : Catholic Party won 71 of 187 seats with 36.6% of the vote; 93.9% of registered voters cast a ballot.

Result

Seats and votes by party

PartySeats%Votes
Catholic Party7136.6816,098
Belgian Labour Party7036.0803,347
Liberal Party2816.6369,114
Front Party / Flemish National Union115.9132,567
Communist Party of Belgium11.943,237
Unnamed party with one seat61.942,804
Votes by party
  • Catholic Party 816,098
  • Belgian Labour Party 803,347
  • Liberal Party 369,114
  • Front Party / Flemish National Union 132,567
  • Communist Party of Belgium 43,237
  • Unnamed party with one seat 42,804

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

93.9% of the 2,498,446 registered voters cast a ballot (2,346,729 ballots). 2,230,069 of them were valid votes. How turnout is counted.

Votes and seats

  • Catholic Party36.6% of votes38.0% of seats
  • Belgian Labour Party36.0% of votes37.4% of seats
  • Liberal Party16.6% of votes15.0% of seats
  • Front Party / Flemish National Union5.9% of votes5.9% of seats
  • Communist Party of Belgium1.9% of votes0.5% of seats
Each party's share of the vote (outlined) and of the seats (filled)

The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 2.3 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 3.4 by votes and 3.2 by seats; Catholic Party led Belgian Labour Party by 0.6 points of the vote. How these are computed.

Sources and licence

Sources and licence

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