1971 Belgian general election
General elections were held in Belgium on 7 November 1971.[1] The result was a victory for the Christian People's Party, which won 40 of the 212 seats in the Chamber of Representatives and 34 of the 106 seats in the Senate. Voter turnout was 91.5%.[2] Elections to the nine provincial councils were also held.
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![]() Colours denote the winning party in each electoral district (for the Chamber of Deputies).
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The linguistic issues led to the splitting of the major parties into separate Flemish and Francophone parties. Consequently the election returned a very fragmented parliament.
The election followed the first state reform, with the creation of three cultural communities. The newly elected members of parliament would thus also serve in the newly established cultural councils.
Results
Chamber of Representatives
Party | Votes | % | Seats | +/– |
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Christian People's Party (CVP) | 967,701 | 18.32 | 40 | New |
Belgian Socialist Party (Flanders) (BSP) | 623,395 | 11.80 | 25 | New |
People's Union (Volksunie) | 586,917 | 11.11 | 21 | +1 |
Belgian Socialist Party (Wallonia) (PSB) | 549,483 | 10.40 | 25 | New |
Party for Freedom and Progress (PVV) | 392,130 | 7.42 | 16 | New |
Christian Social Party (PSC) | 327,393 | 6.20 | 15 | New |
Walloon Rally (RW) | 306,606 | 5.81 | 12 | +6 |
PSC-CVP | 292,101 | 5.53 | 12 | −57 |
FDF-RW | 286,639 | 5.43 | 12 | New |
Party for Freedom and Progress (Wallonia) (PLP) | 275,776 | 5.22 | 11 | New |
Belgian Socialist Party (Brussels) | 162,852 | 3.08 | 7 | New |
PVV/PLP | 107,615 | 2.04 | 4 | –43 |
Red Lions | 104,040 | 1.97 | 4 | +4 |
Communist Party (Wallonia) (PC) | 91,726 | 1.74 | 4 | New |
Party for Freedom and Progress (Brussels) | 90,134 | 1.71 | 3 | New |
Communist Party (Flanders) (KP) | 67,487 | 1.28 | 1 | New |
LOB-LIB | 21,919 | 0.42 | 0 | New |
Onaf Christ | 7,801 | 0.15 | 0 | New |
LVV | 2,740 | 0.05 | 0 | New |
Trotskyists | 2,660 | 0.05 | 0 | 0 |
Catholic Greater Netherlands Folkish Social Struggle (Kaganovemus) | 2,580 | 0.05 | 0 | New |
PCB | 2,304 | 0.04 | 0 | 0 |
Van Meerhage | 2,004 | 0.04 | 0 | New |
Z Kleur | 1,547 | 0.03 | 0 | 0 |
DPU | 1,534 | 0.03 | 0 | New |
Francophone Party | 1,471 | 0.03 | 0 | New |
New Party | 899 | 0.02 | 0 | New |
U Verbruik | 640 | 0.01 | 0 | New |
Dieferenbes | 633 | 0.01 | 0 | 0 |
De Keyzer | 565 | 0.01 | 0 | New |
R D Wal | 339 | 0.01 | 0 | New |
Invalid/blank votes | 459,637 | – | – | – |
Total | 5,741,268 | 100 | 212 | 0 |
Source: Belgian Elections |
Senate
Party | Votes | % | Seats | +/– |
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CVP-PSC | 1,547,853 | 29.70 | 34 | +5 |
Party for Freedom and Progress (PVV-PLP) | 776,514 | 14.90 | 15 | −7 |
Belgian Socialist Party (Wallonia) (PSB) | 710,437 | 13.63 | 16 | New |
Belgian Socialist Party (Flanders) (BSP) | 615,805 | 11.82 | 6 | New |
FDF-RW | 598,768 | 11.49 | 6 | +1 |
People's Union (Volksunie) | 592,509 | 11.37 | 12 | +3 |
Communist Party of Belgium (KPB-PCB) | 106,799 | 2.05 | 1 | −1 |
BSP–Red Lions | 97,371 | 1.87 | 0 | New |
Liberal Democrat and Pluralist Party | 81,133 | 1.56 | 2 | New |
UDP | 61,616 | 1.18 | 0 | New |
LIB-LOB | 15,138 | 0.29 | 0 | New |
Kaganovemus | 3,800 | 0.07 | 0 | 0 |
LVV | 3,159 | 0.06 | 0 | New |
Valentyn | 513 | 0.01 | 0 | New |
Invalid/blank votes | 415,246 | – | – | – |
Total | 5,626,661 | 100 | 106 | 0 |
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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