1971 Belgian general election
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General elections were held in
Senate. Voter turnout was 91.5%.[2] Elections to the nine provincial
councils were also held.
The linguistic issues led to the splitting of the major parties into separate Flemish and Francophone parties. Consequently the election returned a very fragmented parliament.
The election followed the first state reform, with the creation of three cultural communities. The newly elected members of parliament would thus also serve in the newly established cultural councils.
Results
Chamber of Representatives
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Party | Votes | % | Seats | +/– | |
Belgian Socialist Party | 1,335,730 | 25.29 | 57 | –2 | |
Christian People's Party | 967,701 | 18.32 | 40 | New | |
Party for Freedom and Progress | 865,655 | 16.39 | 34 | –13 | |
People's Union | 586,917 | 11.11 | 21 | +1 | |
Christian Social Party | 327,393 | 6.20 | 15 | New | |
Walloon Rally | 306,606 | 5.81 | 12 | +6 | |
PSC–CVP | 292,101 | 5.53 | 12 | −57 | |
FDF–Walloon Rally | 286,639 | 5.43 | 12 | New | |
Communist Party | 161,517 | 3.06 | 5 | 0 | |
Red Lions | 104,040 | 1.97 | 4 | +4 | |
Independent Liberal Party | 21,919 | 0.42 | 0 | New | |
Independent Christians | 7,801 | 0.15 | 0 | New | |
Liberal Flemish People's Party | 2,740 | 0.05 | 0 | New | |
Trotskyists | 2,660 | 0.05 | 0 | 0 | |
Kaganovemus | 2,580 | 0.05 | 0 | New | |
Van Meerhage | 2,004 | 0.04 | 0 | New | |
Z Kleur | 1,547 | 0.03 | 0 | 0 | |
Democratic and Progressive Union | 1,534 | 0.03 | 0 | New | |
Francophone Party | 1,471 | 0.03 | 0 | New | |
New Party | 899 | 0.02 | 0 | New | |
U Verbruik | 640 | 0.01 | 0 | New | |
Dieferenbes | 633 | 0.01 | 0 | 0 | |
De Keyzer | 565 | 0.01 | 0 | New | |
R D Wal | 339 | 0.01 | 0 | New | |
Total | 5,281,631 | 100.00 | 212 | 0 | |
Valid votes | 5,281,631 | 91.99 | |||
Invalid/blank votes | 459,637 | 8.01 | |||
Total votes | 5,741,268 | 100.00 | |||
Registered voters/turnout | 6,271,240 | 91.55 | |||
Source: Belgian Elections[3] |
Senate
Party | Votes | % | Seats | +/– | |
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CVP–PSC | 1,547,853 | 29.70 | 34 | +5 | |
Belgian Socialist Party | 1,326,242 | 25.45 | 24 | –9 | |
Party for Freedom and Progress | 776,514 | 14.90 | 15 | −7 | |
FDF–Walloon Rally | 598,768 | 11.49 | 6 | +1 | |
People's Union | 592,509 | 11.37 | 12 | +3 | |
Communist Party of Belgium | 106,799 | 2.05 | 1 | −1 | |
BSP–Red Lions | 97,371 | 1.87 | 0 | New | |
Liberal Democrat and Pluralist Party | 81,133 | 1.56 | 2 | New | |
Democratic and Progressive Union | 61,616 | 1.18 | 0 | New | |
Independent Liberal Party | 15,138 | 0.29 | 0 | New | |
Kaganovemus | 3,800 | 0.07 | 0 | 0 | |
Liberal Flemish People's Party | 3,159 | 0.06 | 0 | New | |
Valentyn | 513 | 0.01 | 0 | New | |
Total | 5,211,415 | 100.00 | 94 | 0 | |
Valid votes | 5,211,415 | 92.62 | |||
Invalid/blank votes | 415,246 | 7.38 | |||
Total votes | 5,626,661 | 100.00 | |||
Registered voters/turnout | 6,271,240 | 89.72 | |||
Source: Belgian Elections[4] |