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1919 Belgian general election
First party
Second party
Third party
Leader
Joseph Van Roosbroeck
Léon Delacroix
Party
Labour
Catholic
Liberal
Leader since
1918
Candidate for PM
Seats before
32 seats
99 seats
31 seats
Seats won
70
70
34
Seat change
38
19
3
Popular vote
645,124
619,911
310,876
Percentage
36.62%
35.19%
17.65%
Swing
6.30%
7.58%
6.85%
General elections were held in Belgium on 16 November 1919.[ 1] Although the Belgian Labour Party received the most votes in the Chamber of Representatives elections, the Catholic Party remained the largest party in both the Chamber and the Senate .[ 2] Voter turnout was 88.5% in the Chamber elections.[ 3]
They were the first elections after the First World War , and the first with universal single-vote suffrage (for men), a change that was sought by and benefited the Belgian Labour Party . The voting age was also lowered from 25 to 21, and the system of proportional representation was modified to use apparentment (combining votes of different arrondissements within a province).
Results
Chamber of Representatives
Party
Votes
%
Seats
+/-
Belgian Labour Party
645,124
36.62
70
+30
Catholic Party
619,911
35.19
70
-29
Liberal Party
310,876
17.65
34
-9
Frontpartij
60,814
3.45
5
New
Catholic Dissidents
36,063
2.05
3
New
Middle Class
19,939
1.13
1
New
Combatants
19,075
1.08
2
New
National Renaissance
18,546
1.05
1
New
Other parties
31,452
1.79
0
0
Invalid/blank votes
0
–
–
-
Total
1,761,802
100
186
0
Source: Belgian Elections
Senate
Constituencies
The distribution of seats among the electoral districts was as follows:[ 4] [ 5]
References