Belgium 1968 federal election
Final results from ParlGov, read : Belgian Socialist Party won 59 of 212 seats with 28.0% of the vote; 90.0% of registered voters cast a ballot, down 1.6 points on 1965.
- Belgium
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Result
Seats and votes by party
| Party | Seats | ± seats | % | ± points | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Belgian Socialist Party | 59 | −5 | 28.0 | −0.3 | 1,449,172 |
| Liberal Party | 47 | −1 | 20.9 | −0.7 | 1,080,894 |
| Flemish Christian Peoples Party / Christian Democrats & Flemish | 50 | 20.0 | 1,037,309 | ||
| Humanist Democratic Centre | 19 | 11.7 | 606,283 | ||
| People's Union | 20 | +8 | 9.8 | +3.1 | 506,697 |
| Walloon Rally | 5 | 3.4 | 175,181 | ||
| Communist Party of Belgium | 5 | −1 | 3.3 | −1.3 | 170,625 |
| Francophone Democratic Front | 7 | +4 | 2.5 | +1.2 | 130,271 |
± is the change against the Belgium 1965 federal election, party by party.
Votes by party
- Belgian Socialist Party 1,449,172
- Liberal Party 1,080,894
- Flemish Christian Peoples Party / Christian Democrats & Flemish 1,037,309
- Humanist Democratic Centre 606,283
- People's Union 506,697
- Walloon Rally 175,181
- Communist Party of Belgium 170,625
- Francophone Democratic Front 130,271
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.
Share of the vote
Turnout
90.0% of the 6,170,167 registered voters cast a ballot (5,554,652 ballots), down 1.6 points on 1965. 5,177,952 of them were valid votes. The lowest turnout of this kind in our data, which begins in 1946. How turnout is counted.
Votes and seats
- Belgian Socialist Party28.0% of votes27.8% of seats
- Flemish Christian Peoples Party / Christian Democrats & Flemish20.0% of votes23.6% of seats
- Liberal Party20.9% of votes22.2% of seats
- People's Union9.8% of votes9.4% of seats
- Humanist Democratic Centre11.7% of votes9.0% of seats
- Francophone Democratic Front2.5% of votes3.3% of seats
- Walloon Rally3.4% of votes2.4% of seats
- Communist Party of Belgium3.3% of votes2.4% of seats
The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 3.5 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 5.3 by votes and 5.0 by seats; Belgian Socialist Party led Liberal Party by 7.1 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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