1977 Belgian general election
General elections were held in Belgium on 17 April 1977.[1] The result was a victory for the Christian People's Party, which won 56 of the 212 seats in the Chamber of Representatives and 28 of the 106 seats in the Senate. Voter turnout was 95.1%.[2] Elections were also held for the nine provincial councils and for the Council of the German Cultural Community.
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Results
Chamber of Representatives
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| Party | Votes | % | Seats | +/– | |
| Christian People's Party | 1,460,757 | 26.22 | 56 | +6 | |
| Belgian Socialist Party (Flanders) | 725,513 | 13.02 | 27 | New | |
| Belgian Socialist Party | 602,132 | 10.81 | 34 | New | |
| People's Union | 559,567 | 10.04 | 20 | –2 | |
| Party for Freedom and Progress | 475,917 | 8.54 | 17 | New | |
| Christian Social Party | 406,694 | 7.30 | 24 | +2 | |
| Democratic Front of the Francophones | 263,104 | 4.72 | 11 | New | |
| Party of Reforms and Freedom of Wallonia | 191,196 | 3.43 | 16 | New | |
| Belgian Socialist Party (Wallonia) | 145,771 | 2.62 | 0 | 0 | |
| PSC–CSP | 138,361 | 2.48 | 0 | New | |
| Walloon Rally | 132,773 | 2.38 | 4 | –7 | |
| PRLW–PRF | 107,015 | 1.92 | 0 | New | |
| PRLW–Liberal Party | 92,178 | 1.65 | 0 | New | |
| Communist Party of Belgium | 62,410 | 1.12 | 0 | –2 | |
| PCB–UDP | 51,930 | 0.93 | 0 | New | |
| Community Party (Wallonia) | 37,104 | 0.67 | 2 | New | |
| PSB–Walloon Rally | 33,598 | 0.60 | 1 | New | |
| All Power to the Workers (Flanders) | 22,919 | 0.41 | 0 | New | |
| ECOLOG | 11,839 | 0.21 | 0 | New | |
| Revolutionary Workers' League (Flanders) | 8,562 | 0.15 | 0 | New | |
| Party of German-speaking Belgians | 7,735 | 0.14 | 0 | 0 | |
| Party for Freedom and Progress (Wallonia) | 5,220 | 0.09 | 0 | 0 | |
| ECOLOG–Snow White and Seven Dwarfs Party | 4,321 | 0.08 | 0 | New | |
| Ecolo | 3,834 | 0.07 | 0 | New | |
| Revolutionary Workers' League | 3,127 | 0.06 | 0 | New | |
| Agalev | 2,435 | 0.04 | 0 | New | |
| Francophone Women's Front | 2,099 | 0.04 | 0 | New | |
| All Power to the Workers (Wallonia) | 1,980 | 0.04 | 0 | New | |
| Centre Party–Belgian Radical Union | 1,547 | 0.03 | 0 | 0 | |
| Party of Reforms and Freedom | 1,514 | 0.03 | 0 | New | |
| Return to Liège | 1,421 | 0.03 | 0 | 0 | |
| Union of Belgians | 1,083 | 0.02 | 0 | New | |
| People's National Front | 994 | 0.02 | 0 | New | |
| United Feminist Party | 967 | 0.02 | 0 | 0 | |
| Kaganovemus | 884 | 0.02 | 0 | 0 | |
| ECOLOGIQUE | 777 | 0.01 | 0 | New | |
| Ecologie Wallonia | 605 | 0.01 | 0 | New | |
| Communist Party of Belgium – Marxist–Leninist | 533 | 0.01 | 0 | New | |
| United Independent Party | 443 | 0.01 | 0 | New | |
| Flanders–Brussels 77 | 377 | 0.01 | 0 | New | |
| Union of Marxist–Leninist Communists of Belgium | 222 | 0.00 | 0 | New | |
| UC–MEUNIER | 199 | 0.00 | 0 | New | |
| Revolutionary Workers' Party | 175 | 0.00 | 0 | New | |
| Parti Pris | 169 | 0.00 | 0 | New | |
| European Workers Party | 152 | 0.00 | 0 | New | |
| Total | 5,572,153 | 100.00 | 212 | 0 | |
| Valid votes | 5,572,153 | 92.82 | |||
| Invalid/blank votes | 431,153 | 7.18 | |||
| Total votes | 6,003,306 | 100.00 | |||
| Registered voters/turnout | 6,316,662 | 95.04 | |||
| Source: Belgian Elections | |||||
Senate
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| Party | Votes | % | Seats | +/– | |
| Christian People's Party | 1,446,806 | 26.18 | 28 | +1 | |
| Belgian Socialist Party (Wallonia) | 756,401 | 13.69 | 19 | New | |
| Belgian Socialist Party (Flanders) | 719,533 | 13.02 | 12 | New | |
| People's Union | 562,894 | 10.19 | 10 | 0 | |
| Christian Social Party | 522,613 | 9.46 | 11 | +1 | |
| Party for Freedom and Progress | 472,645 | 8.55 | 9 | New | |
| Party of Reforms and Freedom of Wallonia | 316,292 | 5.72 | 7 | New | |
| Democratic Front of the Francophones | 246,367 | 4.46 | 6 | New | |
| Walloon Rally | 158,642 | 2.87 | 2 | New | |
| Communist Party of Belgium | 108,000 | 1.95 | 1 | 0 | |
| Liberal Party | 70,458 | 1.28 | 0 | New | |
| PCB–UDP | 50,749 | 0.92 | 0 | New | |
| PSB–Walloon Rally | 33,945 | 0.61 | 1 | New | |
| All Power to the Workers | 27,693 | 0.50 | 0 | New | |
| Party of German-speaking Belgians | 10,213 | 0.18 | 0 | 0 | |
| Ecolo | 7,558 | 0.14 | 0 | New | |
| Party for Freedom and Progress (Wallonia) | 5,305 | 0.10 | 0 | 0 | |
| United Feminist Party | 3,413 | 0.06 | 0 | 0 | |
| Agalev | 3,270 | 0.06 | 0 | New | |
| Union of Belgians | 1,182 | 0.02 | 0 | New | |
| United Independent Party | 896 | 0.02 | 0 | New | |
| Revolutionary Workers' League | 387 | 0.01 | 0 | New | |
| Belgian Radical Union | 207 | 0.00 | 0 | 0 | |
| Other parties | 502 | 0.01 | 0 | – | |
| Total | 5,525,971 | 100.00 | 106 | 0 | |
| Valid votes | 5,525,971 | 91.91 | |||
| Invalid/blank votes | 486,091 | 8.09 | |||
| Total votes | 6,012,062 | 100.00 | |||
| Registered voters/turnout | 6,012,062 | 100.00 | |||
| Source: Belgian Elections | |||||
References
- Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p289 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7
- Nohlen & Stöver, p291
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