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{{Infobox election
| election_name   = 1880 Belgian general election
| country         = Belgium
| type            = parliamentary
| previous_election = 1878 Belgian general election
| previous_year   = 1878
| next_election   = 1882 Belgian general election
| next_year       = 1882
| seats_for_election = 66 of the 132 seats in the [[Chamber of Representatives (Belgium)|Chamber of Representatives]]
| majority_seats  = 67
| election_date   = {{Start date|1880|06|08|df=yes}}

| image1          = [[File:Fr%C3%A8reOrban.jpg|150x150px]]
| leader1         = [[Walthère Frère-Orban]]
| leader_since1   = ''Candidate for PM''
| party1          = Liberal Party (Belgium)
| seats_before1   = 72 seats
| seats1          = 26
| seats_after1    = 74
| seat_change1    = {{increase}} 2
| popular_vote1   = 21,283
| percentage1     = 50.31%
| swing1          =

| image2          = [[File:Jules_Malou_ars-moriendi.jpg|150x150px]]
| leader2         = [[Jules Malou]]
| leader_since2   = ''Candidate for PM''
| party2          = Catholic Party (Belgium)
| seats_before2   = 60 seats
| seats2          = 40
| seats_after2    = 58
| seat_change2    = {{decrease}} 2
| popular_vote2   = 20,700
| percentage2     = 48.94%
| swing2          =

| title           = [[Cabinet of Belgium|Government]]
| posttitle   =  Government after election
| before_election = [[Walthère Frère-Orban|Frère-Orban II]]
| before_party    = Liberal Party (Belgium)
| after_election  = [[Walthère Frère-Orban|Frère-Orban II]]
| after_party     = Liberal Party (Belgium)

}}{{Politics of Belgium}}

Partial general elections were held in [[Belgium]] on 8 June 1880.<ref>''Codebook'' Constituency-level Elections Archive, 2003</ref><ref name=DS>Sternberger, D, Vogel, B & Nohlen, D (1969) ''Die Wahl der Parlamente: Band I: Europa - Erster Halbband'', p105</ref> In the elections for the [[Belgian Chamber of Representatives|Chamber of Representatives]] the result was a victory for the [[Liberal Party (Belgium)|Liberal Party]], which won 74 of the 132 seats.<ref name=DS/> Voter turnout was 67.2%, although only 62,936 people were eligible to vote.

Under the alternating system, elections were only held in five out of the nine provinces: [[Antwerp (province)|Antwerp]], [[Brabant (province)|Brabant]], [[Luxembourg (Belgium)|Luxembourg]], [[Namur (province)|Namur]] and [[West Flanders]].

A special election was held on 21 August 1880 to elect a representative for the [[arrondissement of Oudenaarde]] following the death of [[Auguste Devos]] on 21 July 1880. [[Florent De Bleeckere]] was elected to succeed him.

==Results==
===Chamber of Representatives===
{{Election results
|image=[[File:Belgian Chamber 1880.svg]]
|seattype1=Won|seattype2=Total|seattype3=+/–
|party1=[[Liberal Party (Belgium)|Liberal Party]]|votes1=21283|st1t1=26|st2t1=74|st3t1=+2
|party2=[[Catholic Party (Belgium)|Catholic Party]]|votes2=20700|st1t2=40|st2t2=58|st3t2=–2
|party3=Others|votes3=318|st1t3=0|st2t3=0|st3t3=New
|total_st3t=0
|totalvotes=42301
|electorate=62936
|source=Mackie & Rose,<ref name=T>Thomas T. Mackie & Richard Rose (1991) ''The International Almanac of Electoral History'', Macmillan, pp48–49</ref> Sternberger ''et al''.
}}

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