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Luxembourg 2018 general election

Final results from ParlGov, read : Christian Social People's Party won 21 of 60 seats with 27.1% of the vote; 89.7% of registered voters cast a ballot, down 1.7 points on 2013.

Result

Seats and votes by party

PartySeats± seats%± pointsVotes
Christian Social People's Party21−227.1−6.658,538
Democratic Party12−116.4−1.935,454
Luxembourg Socialist Workers' Party10−315.7−4.633,981
The Greens9+314.1+4.030,487
Action Committee Pensions / Alternative Democratic Reform Party4+18.0+1.417,336
Pirate Party Luxembourg2+26.2+3.313,394
The Left204.7−0.210,208
Communist Party of Luxembourg001.1−0.62,311

± is the change against the Luxembourg 2013 general election, party by party.

Votes by party
  • Christian Social People's Party 58,538
  • Democratic Party 35,454
  • Luxembourg Socialist Workers' Party 33,981
  • The Greens 30,487
  • Action Committee Pensions / Alternative Democratic Reform Party 17,336
  • Pirate Party Luxembourg 13,394
  • The Left 10,208
  • Communist Party of Luxembourg 2,311

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

89.7% of the 259,887 registered voters cast a ballot (233,014 ballots), down 1.7 points on 2013. 216,177 of them were valid votes. The lowest turnout since 1999 in our data. How turnout is counted.

Votes and seats

  • Christian Social People's Party27.1% of votes35.0% of seats
  • Democratic Party16.4% of votes20.0% of seats
  • Luxembourg Socialist Workers' Party15.7% of votes16.7% of seats
  • The Greens14.1% of votes15.0% of seats
  • Action Committee Pensions / Alternative Democratic Reform Party8.0% of votes6.7% of seats
  • Pirate Party Luxembourg6.2% of votes3.3% of seats
  • The Left4.7% of votes3.3% of seats
Each party's share of the vote (outlined) and of the seats (filled)

The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 6.7 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 6.4 by votes and 4.6 by seats; Christian Social People's Party led Democratic Party by 10.7 points of the vote. How these are computed.

Sources and licence

Sources and licence

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