Luxembourg 1979 general election

Final results from ParlGov, read 5 October 2026: Christian Social People's Party won 24 of 59 seats with 34.5% of the vote; 88.9% of registered voters cast a ballot, down 1.3 points on 1974.

Luxembourg
Held Sunday 10 June 1979

Result

30 for a majority

Seats and votes by party

Party	Seats	± seats	%	± points	Votes
Christian Social People's Party	24	+6	34.5	+6.7	1,049,390
Luxembourg Socialist Workers' Party	14	−3	24.3	−2.7	737,863
Democratic Party	15	+1	21.3	−0.9	648,404
Social Democratic Party	2	−3	6.0	−3.2	181,805
Communist Party of Luxembourg	2	−3	5.8	−4.6	177,286
Enrôlés de Force	1		4.5		135,360
Independent Socialist Party	1		2.2		66,909
The Greens	0		1.0		30,269

± is the change against the Luxembourg 1974 general election, party by party.

Votes by party

Christian Social People's Party 1,049,390
Luxembourg Socialist Workers' Party 737,863
Democratic Party 648,404
Social Democratic Party 181,805
Communist Party of Luxembourg 177,286
Enrôlés de Force 135,360
Independent Socialist Party 66,909
The Greens 30,269

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

Christian Social People's Party34.5%
Luxembourg Socialist Workers' Party24.3%
Democratic Party21.3%
Social Democratic Party6.0%
Communist Party of Luxembourg5.8%
Enrôlés de Force4.5%
Independent Socialist Party2.2%
The Greens1.0%

Turnout

88.9% of the 212,614 registered voters cast a ballot (188,909 ballots), down 1.3 points on 1974. 175,808 of them were valid votes. How turnout is counted.

Votes and seats

Christian Social People's Party34.5% of votes40.7% of seats
Democratic Party21.3% of votes25.4% of seats
Luxembourg Socialist Workers' Party24.3% of votes23.7% of seats
Social Democratic Party6.0% of votes3.4% of seats
Communist Party of Luxembourg5.8% of votes3.4% of seats
Enrôlés de Force4.5% of votes1.7% of seats
Independent Socialist Party2.2% of votes1.7% of seats

Each party's share of the vote (outlined) and of the seats (filled)

The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 6.2 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 4.3 by votes and 3.5 by seats; Christian Social People's Party led Luxembourg Socialist Workers' Party by 10.2 points of the vote. How these are computed.

On the same day

Luxembourg 1979 European Parliament election

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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