Belgium Federal election 2019 — Results
Election day: May 26, 2019
- New Flemish Alliance (N-VA): 16.03%, 25 seats
- Socialist Party (PS): 9.46%, 20 seats
- Vlaams Belang (VB): 11.95%, 18 seats
- Reformist Movement (MR): 7.56%, 14 seats
- Ecolo: 6.14%, 13 seats
- Christian Democratic & Flemish (CD&V): 8.89%, 12 seats
- Workers' Party (PVDA-PTB): 8.62%, 12 seats
- Open Flemish Liberals (Open Vld): 8.54%, 12 seats
Turnout: 88.38%
About this election
Electoral system
The 150 members are elected by proportional representation (D'Hondt method) in 11 constituencies corresponding to the ten provinces plus Brussels-Capital, with a 5% threshold within each constituency. Voting is compulsory, which keeps turnout near 90%. Because no party can win seats outside its own language region, the map on this page colours each region by the party that finished first there — N-VA in Flanders, the PS in Wallonia, and Ecolo in Brussels.
Compiled and reviewed from official results by ElectioMap. See our data methodology.
In numbers
- 4.08 points separated New Flemish Alliance (N-VA) from Vlaams Belang (VB).
- New Flemish Alliance (N-VA) converted 16.03% of the vote into 25 of 150 seats (16.67%), 0.64 points more than its vote share.
- The top two shared 27.98% of the vote between them, and 10 lists cleared 5%.
- Support for New Flemish Alliance (N-VA) ranged from 31.23% in Antwerp to 3.19% in Brussels — a spread of 28.04 points across 6 regions, and it led in 5 of 11.
- Turnout of 88.38% is the lowest of the 2 federal elections covered here since 2019.
Calculated from the official figures on this page and from the other elections of this type in our archive.
Understanding this election
- How Electoral Systems Work Around the World — first-past-the-post, proportional and mixed systems, with real numbers
- Why Election Maps Look Different From the Popular Vote — why a map can look one-sided when the vote was close
- How a Constituency Map Gets Built — what happens when no boundary file matches the districts