2014 European Parliament election in Belgium Turnout 89.64%[1] First party Second party Third party Leader Johan Van Overtveldt Guy Verhofstadt Marie Arena Party N-VA Open Vld PS Alliance EFA ALDE PES Last election 1 seat, 6.13% 3 seats, 12.25% 3 seats, 10.88% Seats won 4 3 3 Seat change 3 Popular vote 1,123,363 859,254 714,784 Percentage 16.79% 12.84% 10.68% Swing 10.66% 0.09% 0.2% Fourth party Fifth party Leader Louis Michel Marianne Thyssen Party MR CD&V Alliance ALDE EPP Last election 2 seats, 9.74% 3 seats, 14.43% Seats won 3 2 Seat change 1 1 Popular vote 661,408 840,814 Percentage 9.88% 12.56% Swing 0.14% 1.86%
An election was held on 25 May 2014 in the three Belgian constituencies (the Dutch-speaking electoral college , the French-speaking electoral college and the German-speaking electoral college ) to elect the Belgian delegation to the European Parliament. This election, part of the 2014 European Parliament election , was held on the same day alongside the Belgian federal election and the Belgian regional elections .
21 Belgium MEPs were elected: 12 of them are Dutch-speaking, 8 of them are French-speaking and 1 of them is German-speaking. In the arrondissement of Brussels-Capital and six municipalities with language facilities , voters can choose whether to vote for the Dutch-speaking or for the French-speaking electoral college.
Opinion polling [ edit ] Opinion polling for the Dutch electoral college [ edit ] Date Polling Firm CD&V VLD VB sp.a N-VA Groen PVDA Others Lead 16 May De Standaard 24.3 19.3 7.7 15.8 20.0 11.4 1.4 0.1 4.3 25 Apr De Standaard 19.0 16.7 7.9 13.9 27.3 10.9 1.7 2.6 8.3 7 June 2009 European Elections 2009 23.3 20.6 15.9 13.2 9.9 7.9 1.0 8.3 2.7
Candidates [ edit ] Main candidates [ edit ] Results [ edit ] Party Votes % Seats French-speaking electoral college Socialist Party 714,645 29.29 3 Reformist Movement 661,332 27.10 3 Ecolo 285,196 11.69 1 Humanist Democratic Centre 277,246 11.36 1 People's Party 145,909 5.98 0 Workers' Party of Belgium 133,811 5.48 0 Francophone Democratic Federalists 82,540 3.38 0 Debout Les Belges! 72,671 2.98 0 La Droite 38,813 1.59 0 Vega 15,208 0.62 0 Stand Up USE 7,970 0.33 0 MG 4,705 0.19 0 Total 2,440,046 100.00 8 Dutch-speaking electoral college New Flemish Alliance 1,123,355 26.67 4 Open Flemish Liberals and Democrats 859,099 20.40 3 Christian Democratic and Flemish 840,783 19.96 2 Socialist Party Differently 555,348 13.18 1 Green 447,391 10.62 1 Vlaams Belang 284,856 6.76 1 Workers' Party of Belgium 101,237 2.40 0 Total 4,212,069 100.00 12 German-speaking electoral college Christian Social Party 11,710 30.34 1 Ecolo 6,429 16.66 0 Partei für Freiheit und Fortschritt 6,197 16.06 0 Socialist Party 5,835 15.12 0 ProDG 5,106 13.23 0 Vivant 3,319 8.60 0 Total 38,596 100.00 1 Valid votes 6,690,711 93.90 Invalid/blank votes 434,450 6.10 Total votes 7,125,161 100.00 Registered voters/turnout 7,948,854 89.64 Source: Belgian Elections
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