Turnout: 89.01%
About this election
Belgium elected 22 members of the European Parliament on 9 June 2024, alongside its federal and regional elections. The far-right Vlaams Belang topped the national vote with 14.50% and 3 seats, narrowly ahead of the New Flemish Alliance (13.96%, 3) and the Francophone liberal Reformist Movement (12.70%, 3), which surged in the south. The far-left PVDA-PTB won 2 seats, as did the CD&V, Vooruit and the PS; Groen, Open Vld, Les Engagés and Ecolo took one each, and the German-speaking Christian Social Party kept its single seat. Turnout was 89.01%.
Belgium is a federal parliamentary constitutional monarchy whose politics divide along language lines between Dutch-speaking Flanders, French-speaking Wallonia and bilingual Brussels, with separate party systems on each side and no national parties. The European election is held on the same day as the federal and regional elections and forms part of a single, intensely domestic campaign. Belgium sends its MEPs to the European Parliament not as one national delegation chosen together but through three community-based electoral colleges, a system designed to guarantee representation to each of its language groups, including the small German-speaking community in the east.
Belgium elects its MEPs through three language-based electoral colleges rather than one national constituency. In 2024 the Dutch-speaking college returned 13 members, the French-speaking college 8, and the German-speaking college 1, each by proportional representation (D'Hondt). Brussels voters chose between the Dutch and French colleges. Because the colleges are separate electorates, seats do not track the national vote share — the PVDA-PTB, for instance, polled more nationally than several parties yet won fewer seats — so this page presents the result as seats with each party's college noted.
The 2024 European election was the first in which Belgians could vote from the age of 16, following a 2022 law that lowered the voting age for European (but not federal) elections. The reform added several hundred thousand young voters to the rolls, and after a legal dispute over whether voting would be compulsory for them, the obligation was ultimately applied as for other voters.
Held on the same day as the federal and regional votes, the European election was inseparable from the wider Belgian campaign and its rightward shift: the consolidation of the nationalist and far-right vote in Flanders and the breakthrough of the liberal MR in Wallonia at the expense of the socialists. Cost of living, migration and security dominated, with European issues again secondary to domestic ones.
In the Dutch-speaking college Vlaams Belang and the N-VA led with 3 seats each, followed by CD&V and Vooruit (2 each), with Groen, Open Vld and the PVDA taking one apiece. In the French-speaking college the MR swept to 3 seats, ahead of the PS (2), the PTB, Les Engagés and Ecolo (one each). The German-speaking college again returned the Christian Social Party.
The 2024 European elections across the EU saw gains for the radical and nationalist right and losses for the greens, and Belgium fitted the pattern: Vlaams Belang's first-place national finish and the retreat of the greens from their 2019 highs echoed trends from France to the Netherlands, even as the overall Belgian delegation remained ideologically balanced across the parliament's groups.
The three-college system produced its usual paradoxes. The PVDA-PTB, running in both the Dutch and French colleges, gathered the fourth-largest national vote yet won only two seats, because its support was split across two separate seat allocations rather than pooled. The MR's three seats came entirely from a dominant performance in the smaller French-speaking college, while Vlaams Belang and the N-VA each converted a large Flemish vote into three seats apiece in the bigger Dutch-speaking college. These mechanics are why the result is best read in seats and colleges rather than as a single national ranking.
Belgium's 22 MEPs took their places across the European Parliament's political families — the N-VA with the European Conservatives and Reformists, Vlaams Belang with the new Patriots for Europe, the socialists with the S&D, the liberals and Les Engagés with Renew Europe, the greens with the Greens/EFA, the PTB with the Left, and the CSP with the European People's Party. The balanced delegation mirrored Belgium's fragmented, multi-party politics within the chamber.
As always in Belgium, compulsory voting produced a European turnout — 89.01% — among the highest in the Union, ensuring the result reflected the choices of almost the entire eligible electorate rather than a self-selecting minority. With the European voting age lowered to 16 for the first time, the 2024 electorate was also the broadest ever to take part in a Belgian European election, reinforcing the representativeness that compulsory voting already guarantees.
Federal Public Service Interior (IBZ) election results — verkiezingen.fgov.be.
Compiled and reviewed by Bartłomiej Paruzel, Election Data Analyst, from official results. See our data methodology.