1974 Belgian general election

none Belgium parliamentary 1971 Belgian general election 1971 1977 Belgian general election 1977 212 seats in the Chamber of Representatives 10 March 1974 Edmond Leburton Candidate for PM Belgian Socialist Party 25 seats, 10.40%reference_name_A a a 59 34 1,401,725 26.66% 16.26% 150x150px|Leo Tindemans Leo Tindemans Candidate for PM Christian People's Party (Belgium) 40 seats, 18.32% 50 10 1,222,646 23.25% 4.91% 100x100px Frans Grootjans 1973 Party for Freedom and Progress (Flanders) 16 seats, 7.42% 30 14 798,818 15.19% 7.77% 100x100px Frans Van der Elst 1955 VU 21 seats, 11.11% 22 1 536,287 10.20% 0.91% FFFF00 150x150px Charles-Ferdinand Nothomb 1972 Christian Social Party (Wallonia) 15 seats, 6.20% 22 7 478,209 9.09% 2.89% 100x100px André Lagasse 1972 DéFI 12 seats, 5.43% 14 2 301,303 5.73% 0.30% Government Government after election Leburton II BSP/PSB-CVP-PSC-PVV-PRL Tindemans I CVP-PSC-PVV-PRL 1974 Belgian legislative election results map.svg Results by constituency for the Chamber of Representatives General elections were held in Belgium on 10 March 1974.Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p289 978-3-8329-5609-7 The Belgian Socialist Party emerged as the largest faction in the Chamber of Representatives with 59 of the 212 seats. Voter turnout was 90.3%.Nohlen & Stöver, p291 Elections were also held for the nine provincial councils, as well as for the Council of the German Cultural Community for the first time. Results Chamber of Representatives File:Belgian Chamber 1974.svg Belgian Socialist Party 1314796 59 +2 Christian People's Party 1222646 50 +10 Party for Freedom and Progress 798818 30 +4 People's Union 536287 22 +1 Christian Social Party 478209 22 +7 FDF–PDLP 301303 14 New Walloon Rally 269455 11 −1 Communist Party of Belgium 107481 2 New BSP–Red Lions 86929 0 New Democratic and Progressive Union 58527 2 +2 All Power to the Workers 19794 0 New United Feminist Party 18511 0 New Party for the Middle Classes and Independents 9184 0 New Party of German-speaking Belgians 8700 0 New Walloon Liberal Party 6846 0 New FDP 4729 0 New Democratic and Progressive Union–New Democracy 3623 0 New Rex Fr 2764 0 New Return to Liège 1810 0 New Kaganovemus 1678 0 0 SAP 1445 0 New Diependale 1229 0 New A74 979 0 New PRS 905 0 New Zwartberg 665 0 New Trotskyists 645 0 New Belgian Radical Union 389 0 New PUR 184 0 New 453108 0 6323027 Belgian Electionshttps://wahlergebnisse.belgium.be/de/election-results/abgeordnetenkammer/1974/k%C3%B6nigreich/157634 Senate File:Belgium Senate 1974.svg Belgian Socialist Party 1301722 27 New Christian People's Party 1219811 27 New Party for Freedom and Progress 755694 16 +1 FDF–RW–PDLP 589553 13 New People's Union 545215 10 New Christian Social Party 430512 10 New Communist Party of Belgium 115007 1 0 BSP–Red Lions 82959 2 +2 Democratic and Progressive Union 60400 0 0 Party for Freedom and Progress (Wallonia) 21782 0 New All Power to the Workers 16744 0 New Party of German-speaking Belgians 15624 0 New United Feminist Party 11910 0 New Party for the Middle Classes and Independents 5918 0 New Iependael 2784 0 New Zwartberg 2149 0 New Kaganovemus 1903 0 0 PMO Party for the Middle Classes and Independents–Belgian Radical Union 1078 0 New A74 942 0 New Walloon Liberal Party 597 0 New PUR 156 0 New Other parties 2255 0 – 527014 0 6323027 Belgian Elections Council of the German Cultural Community In this election, the new Council of the German Cultural Community (Rat der deutschen Kulturgemeinschaft) was directly elected for the first time; members of the council had been appointed a year earlier. The council is the precursor to the Parliament of the German-speaking Community. Christian Social Party 46.90 12 –1 Party of German-speaking Belgians 25.40 6 +3 Partei für Freiheit und Fortschritt 14.90 4 –2 Belgian Socialist Party 12.10 3 0 Other parties 15.10 0 – 0 PDG References General Belgium