Luxembourg 1999 general election

Final results from ParlGov, read 5 October 2026: Christian Social People's Party won 19 of 60 seats with 29.7% of the vote; 86.5% of registered voters cast a ballot, down 1.8 points on 1994.

Luxembourg
Held Sunday 13 June 1999

Result

31 for a majority

Seats and votes by party

Party	Seats	± seats	%	± points	Votes
Christian Social People's Party	19	−2	29.7	0.0	870,985
Luxembourg Socialist Workers' Party	13	−4	23.7	−3.0	695,718
Democratic Party	15	+3	21.6	+3.2	632,707
Action Committee Pensions / Alternative Democratic Reform Party	7	+2	10.4	+2.2	303,734
The Greens	5	0	9.1	−1.1	266,644
The Left	1		3.8		110,274
The Greens	0		1.1		32,014

± is the change against the Luxembourg 1994 general election, party by party.

Votes by party

Christian Social People's Party 870,985
Luxembourg Socialist Workers' Party 695,718
Democratic Party 632,707
Action Committee Pensions / Alternative Democratic Reform Party 303,734
The Greens 266,644
The Left 110,274
The Greens 32,014

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 Party29.7%
Luxembourg Socialist Workers' Party23.7%
Democratic Party21.6%
Action Committee Pensions / Alternative Democratic Reform Party10.4%
The Greens9.1%
The Left3.8%
The Greens1.1%

Turnout

86.5% of the 221,103 registered voters cast a ballot (191,267 ballots), down 1.8 points on 1994. 178,880 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 Party29.7% of votes31.7% of seats
Democratic Party21.6% of votes25.0% of seats
Luxembourg Socialist Workers' Party23.7% of votes21.7% of seats
Action Committee Pensions / Alternative Democratic Reform Party10.4% of votes11.7% of seats
The Greens9.1% of votes8.3% of seats
The Left3.8% of votes1.7% of seats

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

The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 3.7 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 4.7 by votes and 4.3 by seats; Christian Social People's Party led Luxembourg Socialist Workers' Party by 6.0 points of the vote. How these are computed.

On the same day

Luxembourg 1999 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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