1910 Belgian general election

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1910 Belgian general election

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87 of the 166 seats in the Chamber of Representatives
  First party Second party
 
Leader Frans Schollaert
Party Catholic Liberal
Seats won 49 15
Popular vote 676,849 236,467
Percentage 53.11% 18.55%

  Third party Fourth party
 
Leader Georges Maes N/A
Party Labour LiberalSocialist
Seats won 6 17
Popular vote 85,326 243,063
Percentage 6.69% 19.07%

Government before election

Schollaert
Catholic

Government after election

Schollaert
Catholic

Partial general elections were held in Belgium on 22 May 1910.[1] The result was a victory for the Catholic Party, which won 49 of the 87 seats up for election in the Chamber of Representatives.[2]

Under the alternating system, elections were only held in five out of the nine provinces: Antwerp, Brabant, Luxembourg, Namur and West Flanders.

Results[edit]

Liberal Adolphe May defeated Catholic Emile de Lalieux de La Rocq in Nivelles and socialist Joseph Bologne defeated liberal Léopold Gillard in Namur. All other representatives were either re-elected, or succeeded by candidates of the same party. Notably, Camille Huysmans (socialist of Antwerp) was elected for the first time.

PartyVotes%Seats
Won
Catholic Party676,84953.1149
LiberalSocialist kartels243,06319.0717
Liberal Party236,46718.5515
Belgian Labour Party85,3266.696
Catholic dissidents13,6881.070
Christene Volkspartij11,4940.900
Democratic Party8720.070
Socialist dissidents990.010
Independents6,6410.520
Total1,274,499100.0087
Valid votes1,274,49997.53
Invalid/blank votes32,2582.47
Total votes1,306,757100.00
Source: Belgian Elections

References[edit]

  1. ^ Nohlen, Dieter; Stöver, Philip (31 May 2010). Elections in Europe: A data handbook. Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft. p. 289. ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7.
  2. ^ Nohlen & Stöver, p308