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Luxembourg 1984 general election

Final results from ParlGov, read : Christian Social People's Party won 25 of 64 seats with 34.9% of the vote; 89.0% of registered voters cast a ballot, up 0.1 points on 1979.

Result

Seats and votes by party

PartySeats± seats%± pointsVotes
Christian Social People's Party25+134.9+0.41,148,085
Luxembourg Socialist Workers' Party21+733.6+9.31,104,740
Democratic Party14−118.7−2.6614,627
The Greens2+25.2+4.2169,862
Communist Party of Luxembourg205.0−0.8165,960
Independent Socialist Party0−12.5+0.381,002

± is the change against the Luxembourg 1979 general election, party by party.

Votes by party
  • Christian Social People's Party 1,148,085
  • Luxembourg Socialist Workers' Party 1,104,740
  • Democratic Party 614,627
  • The Greens 169,862
  • Communist Party of Luxembourg 165,960
  • Independent Socialist Party 81,002

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

89.0% of the 215,792 registered voters cast a ballot (191,951 ballots), up 0.1 points on 1979. 179,994 of them were valid votes. How turnout is counted.

Votes and seats

  • Christian Social People's Party34.9% of votes39.1% of seats
  • Luxembourg Socialist Workers' Party33.6% of votes32.8% of seats
  • Democratic Party18.7% of votes21.9% of seats
  • The Greens5.2% of votes3.1% of seats
  • Communist Party of Luxembourg5.0% of votes3.1% of seats
  • Independent Socialist Party2.5% of votes0.0% of seats
Each party's share of the vote (outlined) and of the seats (filled)

The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 4.6 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 3.6 by votes and 3.2 by seats; Christian Social People's Party led Luxembourg Socialist Workers' Party by 1.3 points of the vote. How these are computed.

On the same day

Sources and licence

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