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

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]

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 are obligated to participate in the election. Non-Belgian citizens residing in Belgium (regardless of EU citizenship) cannot 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 Together with Les Engagés
Groen Meyrem Almaci Petra De Sutter Dieter Van Besien Dirk Opsteyn Matti Vandemaele Together with Ecolo
N-VA Bart De Wever Anneleen Van Bossuyt Theo Francken Steven Vandeput Jean-Marie Dedecker
Open Vld Paul Van Tigchelt Alexander De Croo Irina De Knop Steven Coenegrachts Vincent Van Quickenborne
PVDA Peter Mertens Robin Tonniau Kemal Bilmez Kim De Witte Nathalie Eggermont Together with PTB
Vlaams Belang Lode Vereeck Barbara Pas Britt Huybrechts Annick Ponthier Wouter Vermeersch
Vooruit Jinnih Beels Freya Van den Bossche Frank Vandenbroucke Funda Oru Melissa Depraetere

French-speaking constituencies

Party  Hainaut  Liège  Luxembourg  Namur  Walloon Brabant  Brussels
DéFI Mikhaël Jacquemain Julien Lemoine Pierre Pinte
Ecolo Zakia Khattabi
Les Engagés Jean-Luc Crucke Vanessa Matz Benoît Lutgen Maxime Prévot Yves Coppieters Elisabeth Degryse
MR Pierre-Yves Jeholet Sophie Wilmès
PS Paul Magnette Dimitri Legasse
PTB
N-VA[4]

Retiring incumbents

Opinion polls

Flanders

Wallonia

Brussels

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.
  4. ↑ "EXCLUSIEF. N-VA wil in Wallonië opkomen". Het Laatste Nieuws. 2023-12-02. Retrieved 2023-12-05.
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