Luxembourg 1989 general election
Final results from ParlGov, read : Christian Social People's Party won 22 of 60 seats with 31.7% of the vote; 87.6% of registered voters cast a ballot, down 1.4 points on 1984.
- Luxembourg
- Held
Result
Seats and votes by party
| Party | Seats | ± seats | % | ± points | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Christian Social People's Party | 22 | −3 | 31.7 | −3.2 | 977,521 |
| Luxembourg Socialist Workers' Party | 18 | −3 | 27.2 | −6.3 | 840,094 |
| Democratic Party | 11 | −3 | 16.2 | −2.5 | 498,862 |
| Action Committee Pensions / Alternative Democratic Reform Party | 4 | 7.3 | 225,262 | ||
| Communist Party of Luxembourg | 1 | −1 | 5.1 | +0.1 | 157,608 |
| The Greens | 2 | 4.2 | 130,485 | ||
| The Greens | 2 | 0 | 4.2 | −1.0 | 128,622 |
| National Movement | 0 | 2.7 | 82,316 |
± is the change against the Luxembourg 1984 general election, party by party.
Votes by party
- Christian Social People's Party 977,521
- Luxembourg Socialist Workers' Party 840,094
- Democratic Party 498,862
- Action Committee Pensions / Alternative Democratic Reform Party 225,262
- Communist Party of Luxembourg 157,608
- The Greens 130,485
- The Greens 128,622
- National Movement 82,316
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
87.6% of the 218,940 registered voters cast a ballot (191,777 ballots), down 1.4 points on 1984. 181,168 of them were valid votes. The lowest turnout of this kind in our data, which begins in 1948. How turnout is counted.
Votes and seats
- Christian Social People's Party31.7% of votes36.7% of seats
- Luxembourg Socialist Workers' Party27.2% of votes30.0% of seats
- Democratic Party16.2% of votes18.3% of seats
- Action Committee Pensions / Alternative Democratic Reform Party7.3% of votes6.7% of seats
- The Greens4.2% of votes3.3% of seats
- The Greens4.2% of votes3.3% of seats
- Communist Party of Luxembourg5.1% of votes1.7% of seats
- National Movement2.7% of votes0.0% of seats
The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 5.4 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 4.7 by votes and 3.8 by seats; Christian Social People's Party led Luxembourg Socialist Workers' Party by 4.5 points of the vote. How these are computed.
On the same day
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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