2024 Belgian federal election

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]

2024 Belgian federal election
Belgium
9 June 2024
All 150 seats in the Chamber of Representatives
76 seats needed for a majority

Electoral system

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 were obligated to participate in the election. Non-Belgian citizens residing in Belgium (regardless of EU citizenship) couldn't vote, whereas Belgian citizens living abroad can register to vote.

Parties and leaders

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 Annelies Verlinden Vincent Van Peteghem Sammy Mahdi Nawal Farih Nathalie Muylle Benjamin Dalle
Groen
N-VA Jean-Marie Dedecker
Open Vld
PVDA
Vooruit
Vlaams Belang Lode Vereeck Barbara Pas Britt Huybrechts Annick Ponthier Wouter Vermeersch

French-speaking constituencies
Party  Hainaut  Liège  Luxembourg  Namur  Walloon Brabant  Brussels
DéFI
Ecolo
Les Engagés
MR
PS
PTB

Retiring incumbents

Opinion polls
Main article: Opinion polling for the 2024 Belgian federal election

References
  1. "Quand auront lieu les prochaines elections". IBZ Elections. Retrieved 2023-05-07.
  2. 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.
  3. "Brussel krijgt extra volksvertegenwoordiger bij verkiezingen 2024". BRUZZ. 23 November 2022.
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