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Minister-President: Elio Di Rupo (PS) · Governing parties: PS, MR, ECOLO
Legislative elections: Walloon Parliament, 5-year term, 75 seats, 5% threshold (constituency-based), party-list PR:

Party 2019 2014
Parti Socialiste (PS)
Socialist Party
Social democracy
  
26,2% 23 30,9% 30
Mouvement Réformateur (MR)
Reformist Movement
Liberalism
  
21,4% 20 26,7% 25
Ecolo (ECOLO)
Ecolo
Green politics
  
14,5% 12 8,6% 4
Parti du Travail de Belgique (PTB)
Workers' Party of Belgium
Socialism
  
13,7% 10 5,8% 2
Centre Démocrate Humaniste (CDH)
Humanist Democratic Centre
Christian democracy
Centrism    
11,0% 10 15,2% 13
Démocrate Fédéraliste Indépendant (DéFI)
Democratic Federalist Independent
[2014: FDF]
Regionalism
Liberalism
4,1% - 2,5% -
Parti Populaire (PP)
People's Party
Conservative liberalism
Right-wing populism   
3,7% - 4,9% 1
Others 5,4% - 5,4% -
Total - 75 - 75
Turnout 86,6% 87,9%

 © 2019 Wolfram Nordsieck. Source: IBZ (http://verkiezingen2019.belgium.be).

Archive: Legislative elections, 1995-2014:

1995 1999 2004 2009 2014
PS % 35,2 29,5 36,9 32,8 31,0
   S. 30 25 34 29 30
MR (PRL) % 23,7 24,7 24,3 23,4 26,6
  S. 19 21 20 19 25
CDH (PSC) % 21,6 17,1 17,6 16,1 15,1
   S. 16 14 14 13 13
ECOLO % 10,4 18,2 8,5 18,5 8,5
  S. 8 14 3 14 4
PTB % 0,7 0,5 0,6 1,2 5,8
  S. - - - - 2
PP % - - - - 4,9
  S. - - - - 1
FDF (...) % PRL - - - 2,6
  S. ... - - - -
FN % 5,2 4,0 8,1 2,9 -
  S. 2 1 4 - -
Others % 3,3 6,0 4,0 5,1 5,5
   S. - - - - -
Total S. 75 75 75 75 75
Turnout % 90,5 90,4 89,5 89,0 86,3

Abbreviations: PS: Socialist Party; MR: Reformist Movement (1995-1999: Liberal Reformist Party-Democratic Front of Francophones, PRL-FDF); CDH: Humanist Democratic Centre (1995-1999: Christian Social Party, PSC); ECOLO: Ecolo; PTB: Workers' Party of Belgium; PP: People's Party; FDF: Francophone Democratic Federalists (1995: Democratic Front of Francophones, FDF); FN: National Front. © 2019 Wolfram Nordsieck.