Belgium 1939 federal election
Final results from ParlGov, read : Catholic Party won 67 of 202 seats with 30.4% of the vote; 79.0% of registered voters cast a ballot.
- Belgium
- Held
Result
- Catholic Party67
- Belgian Labour Party64
- Liberal Party33
- Front Party / Flemish National Union17
- Communist Party of Belgium9
- Catholic Flemish People's Party6
- Rexist Party4
- Other parties (seats only)1
- Unnamed party with one seat1
Seats and votes by party
| Party | Seats | % | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Catholic Party | 67 | 30.4 | 594,133 |
| Belgian Labour Party | 64 | 29.4 | 575,775 |
| Liberal Party | 33 | 17.2 | 335,966 |
| Front Party / Flemish National Union | 17 | 8.4 | 164,253 |
| Communist Party of Belgium | 9 | 4.7 | 90,856 |
| Rexist Party | 4 | 4.3 | 83,047 |
| Catholic Flemish People's Party | 6 | 3.2 | 62,548 |
| Unnamed party with one seat | 1 | 0.6 | 10,843 |
| Other parties (seats only) | 1 | 0.5 | 10,630 |
| Largest party without seats | 0 | 0.4 | 8,057 |
Votes by party
- Catholic Party 594,133
- Belgian Labour Party 575,775
- Liberal Party 335,966
- Front Party / Flemish National Union 164,253
- Communist Party of Belgium 90,856
- Rexist Party 83,047
- Catholic Flemish People's Party 62,548
- Unnamed party with one seat 10,843
- Other parties (seats only) 10,630
- Largest party without seats 8,057
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
79.0% of the 2,667,341 registered voters cast a ballot (2,107,156 ballots). 1,955,814 of them were valid votes. How turnout is counted.
Votes and seats
- Catholic Party30.4% of votes33.2% of seats
- Belgian Labour Party29.4% of votes31.7% of seats
- Liberal Party17.2% of votes16.3% of seats
- Front Party / Flemish National Union8.4% of votes8.4% of seats
- Communist Party of Belgium4.7% of votes4.5% of seats
- Catholic Flemish People's Party3.2% of votes3.0% of seats
- Rexist Party4.3% of votes2.0% of seats
The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 3.1 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 4.5 by votes and 4.0 by seats; Catholic Party led Belgian Labour Party by 0.9 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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