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King: Philippe · Prime Minister: Alexander de Croo (Open VLD) · Governing parties: MR, PS, SP.A, CD&V, Open VLD, GROEN, ECOLO
Legislative elections: Chamber of Representatives, 5-year term, 150 seats, 5% threshold (constituency based), party-list PR:

  2024 2019 2014 2010
Party Ideology % Seats % Seats % Seats % Seats
Nieuw-Vlaamse Alliantie (N-VA)
New Flemish Alliance
Separatism
Liberal conservatism 
    16,0 25 20,3 33 17,4 27
Vlaams Belang (VB)
Flemish Interest
Separatism
Nationalism
Right-wing populism
    12,0 18 3,7 3 7,8 12
Parti Socialiste (PS)
Socialist Party
Social democracy       9,5 20 11,7 23 13,7 26
Christen-Democratisch & Vlaams (CD&V)
Christian-Democratic & Flemish
Christian democracy      8,9 12 11,6 18 10,9 17
Parti du Travail de Belgique (PTB/PvdA)
Workers' Party of Belgium
Socialism       8,6 12 3,7 2 1,6 -
Open Vlaamse Liberalen en Democraten (Open VLD)
Open Flemish Liberals and Democrats
Liberalism      8,5 12 9,8 14 8,6 13
Mouvement Réformateur (MR)
Reformist Movement
Liberalism       7,6 14 9,6 20 9,3 18
Socialistische Partij.Anders (SP.A)
Socialist Party.Different
Social democracy        6,7 9 8,8 13 9,2 13
Ecolo (ECOLO)
Ecolo
Green politics       6,1 13 3,3 6 4,8 8
De Vlaamse Groenen (GROEN)
The Flemish Greens
Green politics       6,1 8 5,3 6 4,4 5
Centre Démocrate Humaniste (CDH)  
Humanist Democratic Centre
Christian democracy
Centrism    
    3,7 5 5,0 9 5,5 9
Démocrate Fédéraliste Indépendant (DéFI)
Democratic Federalist Independent (a)
Regionalism
Social liberalism
    2,2 2 1,8 2 MR ...
Parti Populaire (PP)
People's Party
Conservative liberalism      
Right-wing populism  
    1,1 - 1,5 1 1,3 1
Lijst Dedecker (LDD)
List Dedecker
Conservative liberalism    
Libertarianism  
    - - - - 2,3 1
Others      3,0 - 3,9 - 3,2 -
Total     - 150 - 150 - 150
Turnout    90,0 89,7 87,2

© 2024 Wolfram Nordsieck. Source: IBZ (www.verkiezingen2019.belgium.be).  For full coverage, click here (1946-present). (a) 2010/2014: Francophone Democratic Federalists (FDF).