2024 Belgian elections

The 2024 Belgian elections took place on 9 June 2024[1] and 13 October 2024.

Election posters in Leuven for the elections of 9 June 2024

Following elections were held on 9 June 2024:

Following elections were held on 13 October 2024:

Parties

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Traditionally Belgian parties belong to different families based on their multilingual predecessors which split in the 1970s and usually sit in the same political groups of the European Parliament and in the Benelux Parliament

Family Dutch-speaking French-speaking German-speaking
Social democratic Forward Socialist Party (PS) Socialist Party (SP)
Liberal Open Flemish Liberals and Democrats (Open VLD) Reformist Movement (MR) Perspectives. Freedom. Progress. (PFF)
Green Green Ecolo
Christian democratic Christian Democratic & Flemish (cd&v) The Committed Ones (LE)[a] Christian Social Party (CSP)
Far-right Flemish Interests (VB) At our place (CN)[b]
Marxist Workers' Party of Belgium/Labour Party of Belgium (PTB/PVDA)[c]
Other New Flemish Alliance (N-VA) DéFI Pro German-speaking Community (ProDG)
Vivant
  1. ^ LE broke with their christian democratic tradition on 17 March 2022
  2. ^ CN and VB do not have a common history but have deep ties to another and can be seen as counterparts.
  3. ^ PTB/PVDA are the only fully national major party in Belgium.

Opinion polls

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References

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  1. ^ Belga (17 May 2023). "Kogel is door de kerk: op zondag 9 juni 2024 trekken we naar de stembus". vrtnws.be (in Dutch). Retrieved 26 May 2023.