2024 Belgian federal election

2024 Belgian federal election

← 2019 9 June 2024

All 150 seats in the Chamber of Representatives 76 seats needed for a majority

Party Leader Current seats N-VA Bart De Wever 24 PS Paul Magnette 19 VB Tom Van Grieken 18 MR Georges-Louis Bouchez 14 Ecolo R. Maouane & J.-M. Nollet [fr] 13 CD&V Sammy Mahdi 12 PVDA-PTB Raoul Hedebouw 12 Open Vld Tom Ongena [nl] 12 Vooruit Melissa Depraetere 9 Groen N. Naji & J. Vaneeckhout 8 LE Maxime Prévot 5 DéFI François De Smet [fr] 2 Incumbent Prime Minister Alexander De Croo Open Vld

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Federal elections are scheduled to be held in Belgium on 9 June 2024.^[1] The 150 members of the Chamber of Representatives will be elected for a five-year term. European and regional elections are scheduled to take place on the same day.^[2]

Electoral system

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20

15

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12

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5

16

   Flanders

   Wallonia

   Brussels

The 150 members of the Chamber of Representatives were elected in 11 multi-member constituencies, being the ten provinces and Brussels, with between 4 and 24 seats. Seats are allocated using the D'Hondt method, with an electoral threshold of 5% per constituency.

Representatives elected from the five Flemish Region provinces, Antwerp (24), East Flanders (20), Flemish Brabant (15), Limburg (12) and West Flanders (16), automatically belonged to the Dutch-speaking language group in parliament, whereas those elected from the five provinces of Wallonia, Hainaut (17), Liège (14), Luxembourg (4), Namur (7) and Walloon Brabant (5), formed the French-speaking language group. The 16 members elected in Brussels can choose to join either group. Apportionment of seats is done every ten years in accordance with population data, last by royal order in 2022, when Brussels and Namur each gained a seat while Hainaut and Liège lost a seat.^[3]

The 60-member Senate is composed of 50 representatives from the regional and community parliaments, plus 10 co-opted senators proportionally divided among parties based on the result of the federal election.

All Belgian citizens aged 18 or over are obligated to participate in the election. Non-Belgian citizens residing in Belgium (regardless of EU citizenship) cannot vote, whereas Belgian citizens living abroad can register to vote.

Voting is done electronically in all 19 Brussels and 9 German-speaking municipalities as well as in 159 Flemish municipalities. Voting is done by paper ballot in 141 Flemish municipalities as well as in all 253 (non-German-speaking) Walloon municipalities.

Timetable

Parties and leaders

Parties running

The following parties are already represented in parliament. On the 13th of April we will know the full list of participating parties.

Lead candidates

The following candidates are the first on the respective party list (lijsttrekker / tête de liste) per constituency.

Dutch-speaking constituencies

Party		Antwerp	East Flanders	Flemish Brabant	Limburg	West Flanders	Brussels
	CD&V [4]	Annelies Verlinden	Vincent Van Peteghem	Sammy Mahdi	Nawal Farih [nl]	Nathalie Muylle [nl]	Together with Les Engagés
	Groen [5]	Meyrem Almaci	Petra De Sutter	Dieter Van Besien [nl]	Dirk Opsteyn	Matti Vandemaele	Together with Ecolo
	N-VA [6]	Bart De Wever	Anneleen Van Bossuyt	Theo Francken	Steven Vandeput	Jean-Marie Dedecker
	Open Vld [7]	Paul Van Tigchelt	Alexander De Croo	Irina De Knop [nl]	Steven Coenegrachts [nl]	Vincent Van Quickenborne	Together with MR
	PVDA [8]	Peter Mertens	Robin Tonniau [nl]	Kemal Bilmez	Kim De Witte	Natalie Eggermont [nl]	Together with PTB
	Vlaams Belang [9]	Lode Vereeck [nl]	Barbara Pas	Britt Huybrechts	Annick Ponthier	Wouter Vermeersch
	Vooruit [10]	Jinnih Beels [nl]	Joris Vandenbroucke [nl]	Frank Vandenbroucke	Funda Oru [nl]	Melissa Depraetere	Together with PS
	Volt[11]	Jasper Coosemans					Emeric Massaut
	VoorU[12]	Frank Wouters	Michael Verstraeten	Els Ampe [nl]	Dirk Vijnck [nl]	Ivan Sabbe [nl]	Rachid El Hajui

French-speaking constituencies

Hainaut will interestingly feature three party chairmen (Bouchez for MR, Magnette for PS and Nollet for Ecolo) as well as popular ex-MR ex-minister Crucke for Les Engagés. In Namur, three federal deputy prime ministers will run against each other (Dermagne for PS, Gilkinet for Ecolo and Clarinval for MR).^[13]

Party		Hainaut	Liège	Luxembourg	Namur	Walloon Brabant	Brussels
	DéFI [citation needed]	Mikhaël Jacquemain	Freddy Debarsy		Julien Lemoine	Pierre Pinte	François De Smet [fr]
	Ecolo [citation needed]	Jean-Marc Nollet [fr]	Sarah Schlitz	Olivier Vajda [fr]	Georges Gilkinet	Simon Moutquin [fr]	Zakia Khattabi
	Les Engagés [citation needed]	Jean-Luc Crucke [fr]	Vanessa Matz	Benoît Lutgen	Maxime Prévot	Yves Coppieters	Elisabeth Degryse
	MR [citation needed]	Georges-Louis Bouchez	Pierre-Yves Jeholet [fr]	Benoît Piedboeuf [fr]	David Clarinval	Florence Reuter	Sophie Wilmès
	PS [citation needed]	Paul Magnette	Frédéric Daerden	Philippe Courard [fr]	Pierre-Yves Dermagne	Dimitri Legasse [fr]	Caroline Désir [fr]
	PTB [citation needed]	Sofie Merckx [fr]	Raoul Hedebouw		Farah Jacquet	Amaury Laridon	Nabil Boukili [fr]
	N-VA[14]	Michel De Wolf	Evelien Barbeaux	Anne Laure Mouligneaux	Laurence Genot	Drieu Godefridi
	Chez Nous	Jérôme Munier	Noa Pozzi	Nicolas Dielman	Eric Doucet	Michaël Lefèvere

Other political parties

• Blanco Party: single-issue politics - Federal constituencies
• Belgische Unie – Union Belge: royalism - Federal constituencies
• L'Unie: unitarism - Federal constituencies
• Alternatief 2024 - Flemish constituencies
• BoerBurgerBelangen: agrarianism - Flemish constituencies
• Partij vor de Bomen: tree interests - Flemish constituencies
• DierAnimal: animal welfare - Flemish constituencies
• Common Sense: libertarianism, agrarianism - Flemish constituencies
• L99 - Flemish constituencies
• Citizen Empowerment: anti-establishment - Walloon constituencies
• Team Fouad Ahidar: minority interests - Brussels constituencies
• Plan B: regionalism, liberalism - Brussels constituencies
• Transparene-Transparency: anti-establishment - Brussels constituencies
• Viva Palestina: pro-Palestine - Brussels constituencies
• Agora: participatory democracy - French-speaking constituencies
• Citizens' Collective: social-liberalism - French-speaking constituencies
• Workers' Struggle: trotskyism - French-speaking constituencies
• Anticapitalists: trotskyism - French-speaking European constituencies
• Huppertz+Co: christian democracy - German-speaking constituencies
• Liste24.dg - German-speaking constituencies

Retiring incumbents

The following members of the federal parliament are not standing for election in June 2024.

• Patrick Dewael (Open Vld)^[15]
• Valerie Van Peel (N-VA)^[15]
• Maggie De Block (Open Vld) ^[15]
• Barbara Creemers [nl] (Groen) ^{[citation needed]}
• Wouter De Vriendt (Groen) ^{[citation needed]}
• Kristof Calvo (Groen), though he later announced he will support the Ecolo list in Hainaut, without aiming to be elected^[16]
• Meryame Kitir (Vooruit) ^{[citation needed]}
• Jessika Soors [nl] (Groen) ^{[citation needed]}

Opinion polls

Flanders

Wallonia

Brussels

References