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 BRUSSELS / B

Legislative elections: Brussels Parliament, 5-year term, 5% thresholds (constituency-based), party-list proportional representation system
           · Minister-President: Charles Picqué (PS) · Government: PS, CDH, ECOLO, VLD, CD&V, GROEN

Party Ideology, Affiliation, Founding 2009 Seats 2004 Seats
Mouvement Réformateur (MR)
Reform Movement
Liberalism
 
ELDR, LI
2002
26,5% 24 28,0% 25
Parti Socialiste (PS)
Socialist Party
Social democracy
 
PES, SI
1978
23,3% 21 28,8% 26
Écologistes (ECOLO)
Ecologists
Green politics
 
EGP, GG
1980
17,9% 16 8,4% 7
Centre Démocrate Humaniste (CDH)
Humanist Democratic Centre
Christian democracy
 
EPP, CDI
1972
13,1% 11 12,1% 10
Vlaamse Liberalen en Democraten (VLD)
Flemish Liberals and Democrats
(2004: VLD-VIVANT)
Liberalism; Social liberalism
 
ELDR, LI
1972
2,6% 4 2,7% 4
Socialistische Partij Anders (SPA)
Socialist Party Different
(2004: SPA-SPIRIT)
Social democracy; Third Way
 
PES, SI
1978
2,2% 4 2,4% 3
Vlaams Belang (VB)
Flemish Interest
Separatism; Flemish nationalism, Far-right politics -
2004
2,0% 3 4,7% 6
Front National (FN)
National Front
Nationalism; Far-right politics
 
AENM
1985
1,7% - 4,7% 4
Christen-Democratisch & Vlaams (CD&V)
Christian-Democratic & Flemish
Christian democracy
 
EPP, CDI
1972
1,7% 3 2,3% 3
De Vlaamse Groenen (GROEN)
The Flemish Greens
Green politics
 
EGP, GG
1981
1,3% 2 1,4% 1
Nieuw-Vlaamse Alliantie (N-VA)
New Flemish Alliance
Separatism; Flemish nationalism, Conservatism EFA
2001
0,6% 1 CD&V -
Others - - 7,1% - 4,5% -
Total - - - 89 - 89
Turnout - - 84,3% 83,6%

 © 2009 Wolfram Nordsieck. Source: Federale Portaalsite (http://verkiezingen2009.belgium.be). Archive: Elections 1989-1999.