Flemish Parliament
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All 124 seats in the Flemish Parliament 62 seats needed for a majority | ||
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| Party | Votes | % | Seats | |||||
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| Flanders | Brussels | Total | +/- | |||||
| Christian Democratic and Flemish-New Flemish Alliance | 1,060,580 | 26.09 | 34 | 1 | 35 | +5 | ||
| Flemish Block | 981,587 | 24.15 | 29 | 3 | 32 | +10 | ||
| Flemish Liberals and Democrats-Vivant | 804,578 | 19.79 | 24 | 1 | 25 | -2 | ||
| Socialist Party Differently-Spirit | 799,325 | 19.66 | 24 | 1 | 25 | +6 | ||
| Groen! | 308,898 | 7.60 | 6 | – | 6 | -6 | ||
| Union of Francophones | 43,391 | 1.07 | 1 | – | 1 | – | ||
| Workers' Party of Belgium+ | 22,874 | 0.56 | – | – | – | – | ||
| Belgische Unie – Union Belge | 9,535 | 0.23 | – | – | – | – | ||
| National Front | 7,388 | 0.18 | – | – | – | – | ||
| Solide | 6,033 | 0.15 | – | – | – | – | ||
| Respect | 5,227 | 0.13 | – | – | – | – | ||
| MDP | 4,187 | 0.10 | – | – | – | – | ||
| PvdD | 2,640 | 0.06 | – | – | – | – | ||
| Left Socialist Party | 2,509 | 0.06 | – | – | – | – | ||
| STA OP | 1,821 | 0.04 | – | – | – | – | ||
| B.U.B. | 1,723 | 0.04 | – | – | – | – | ||
| Vrijheid, Intimiteit, Thuis, Arbeid en Liefde | 1,332 | 0.03 | – | – | – | – | ||
| MRV | 761 | 0.02 | – | – | – | – | ||
| VDB | 357 | 0.01 | – | – | – | – | ||
| Total | 4,064,746 | 100.00 | 118 | 6 | 124 | 13 | ||
| Valid votes | 4,064,746 | 94.87 | ||||||
| Invalid/blank votes | 219,910 | 5.13 | ||||||
| Total votes | 4,284,656 | 100.00 | ||||||
| Registered voters/turnout | 4,568,250 | 93.79 | ||||||
| Source: Belgian Elections | ||||||||
In the Flemish Parliament election, the liberal-socialist government was put to the test. The far right Vlaams Blok became the second largest party in Flanders just after the alliance of conservatives Christian Democratic and Flemish-New Flemish Alliance (CD&V - N-VA). The green party Groen! managed to be elected and keeps half of their seats in the parliament. In contrast with the previous election, the People's Union (VU-ID) has split and the new parties, N-VA and Spirit, allied with CD&V and Different Socialist Party (SP.A) respectively.
Because of the cordon sanitaire of all the other parties against Vlaams Blok, a coalition of at least three parties needed to be formed in order to have a majority in the Flemish Parliament. Groen! confirmed that it did not want to take part in the new coalition, so the only coalition left was a conservative-socialist-liberal tripartite.
In the aftermath of the elections, Yves Leterme (CD&V) was selected to form a Flemish regional government.
Details
| Region | Seats won per party | Total seats | ||||||
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| Provinces | CD&V + N-VA | VB | VLD + VIVANT | SP.A + SPIRIT | GROEN! | UF | ||
| Flanders | Antwerp | 9 / 33
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10 / 33
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6 / 33
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6 / 33
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2 / 33
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— | 33 / 124
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| East Flanders | 7 / 27
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6 / 27
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7 / 27
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5 / 27
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2 / 27
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— | 27 / 124
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| Flemish Brabant | 5 / 20
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5 / 20
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4 / 20
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4 / 20
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1 / 20
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1 / 20
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20 / 124
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| Limburg | 5 / 16
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4 / 16
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3 / 16
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4 / 16
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— | — | 16 / 124
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| West Flanders | 8 / 22
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4 / 22
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4 / 22
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5 / 22
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1 / 22
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— | 22 / 124
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| Brussels | 1 / 6
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3 / 6
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1 / 6
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1 / 6
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— | — | 6 / 124
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| Total | 35 / 124
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32 / 124
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25 / 124
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25 / 124
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6 / 124
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1 / 124
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124 / 124
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