Belgium 1932 federal election
Final results from ParlGov, read : Catholic Party won 79 of 187 seats with 38.5% of the vote; 94.3% of registered voters cast a ballot.
- Belgium
- Held
Result
- Catholic Party79
- Belgian Labour Party73
- Liberal Party24
- Front Party / Flemish National Union8
- Communist Party of Belgium3
Seats and votes by party
| Party | Seats | % | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Catholic Party | 79 | 38.5 | 899,887 |
| Belgian Labour Party | 73 | 37.1 | 866,817 |
| Liberal Party | 24 | 14.3 | 333,567 |
| Front Party / Flemish National Union | 8 | 5.6 | 130,755 |
| Communist Party of Belgium | 3 | 2.8 | 65,694 |
Votes by party
- Catholic Party 899,887
- Belgian Labour Party 866,817
- Liberal Party 333,567
- Front Party / Flemish National Union 130,755
- Communist Party of Belgium 65,694
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
94.3% of the 2,554,843 registered voters cast a ballot (2,409,553 ballots). 2,335,192 of them were valid votes. How turnout is counted.
Votes and seats
- Catholic Party38.5% of votes42.2% of seats
- Belgian Labour Party37.1% of votes39.0% of seats
- Liberal Party14.3% of votes12.8% of seats
- Front Party / Flemish National Union5.6% of votes4.3% of seats
- Communist Party of Belgium2.8% of votes1.6% of seats
The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 3.4 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 3.2 by votes and 2.9 by seats; Catholic Party led Belgian Labour 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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