Luxembourg 2009 general election

Final results from ParlGov, read 5 October 2026: Christian Social People's Party won 26 of 60 seats with 38.0% of the vote; 90.8% of registered voters cast a ballot, down 1.2 points on 2004.

Luxembourg
Held Sunday 7 June 2009

Result

31 for a majority

Seats and votes by party

Party	Seats	± seats	%	± points	Votes
Christian Social People's Party	26	+2	38.0	+2.2	1,129,368
Luxembourg Socialist Workers' Party	13	−1	21.6	−3.9	695,830
Democratic Party	9	−1	15.0	0.0	432,820
The Greens	7	0	11.7	+0.2	347,388
Action Committee Pensions / Alternative Democratic Reform Party	4	−1	8.1	−0.9	232,744
The Left	1	+1	3.3	+1.3	109,184
Communist Party of Luxembourg	0	0	1.5	+0.3	49,108

± is the change against the Luxembourg 2004 general election, party by party.

Votes by party

Christian Social People's Party 1,129,368
Luxembourg Socialist Workers' Party 695,830
Democratic Party 432,820
The Greens 347,388
Action Committee Pensions / Alternative Democratic Reform Party 232,744
The Left 109,184
Communist Party of Luxembourg 49,108

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 Party38.0%
Luxembourg Socialist Workers' Party21.6%
Democratic Party15.0%
The Greens11.7%
Action Committee Pensions / Alternative Democratic Reform Party8.1%
The Left3.3%
Communist Party of Luxembourg1.5%

Turnout

90.8% of the 240,676 registered voters cast a ballot (218,423 ballots), down 1.2 points on 2004. 198,364 of them were valid votes. How turnout is counted.

Votes and seats

Christian Social People's Party38.0% of votes43.3% of seats
Luxembourg Socialist Workers' Party21.6% of votes21.7% of seats
Democratic Party15.0% of votes15.0% of seats
The Greens11.7% of votes11.7% of seats
Action Committee Pensions / Alternative Democratic Reform Party8.1% of votes6.7% of seats
The Left3.3% of votes1.7% of seats

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

The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 4.2 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 4.3 by votes and 3.6 by seats; Christian Social People's Party led Luxembourg Socialist Workers' Party by 16.5 points of the vote. How these are computed.

On the same day

Luxembourg 2009 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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