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 Belgiumportal |
General elections were held in Belgium on 17 April 1977. [1] The result was a victory for the Christian People's Party, which won 56 of the 212 seats in the Chamber of Representatives and 28 of the 106 seats in the Senate. Voter turnout was 95.1%. [2] Elections were also held for the nine provincial councils and for the Council of the German Cultural Community.
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| Party or alliance | Votes | % | Seats | +/– | |||
| Belgian Socialist Party | BSP (Flanders) | 725,513 | 13.01 | 27 | New | ||
| PSB-BSP | 602,132 | 10.80 | 34 | New | |||
| PSB (Wallonia) | 145,771 | 2.61 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Total | 1,473,416 | 26.43 | 61 | +2 | |||
| Christian People's Party | 1,460,757 | 26.20 | 56 | +6 | |||
| People's Union | 559,567 | 10.04 | 20 | –2 | |||
| Party for Freedom and Progress | PVV | 475,917 | 8.54 | 17 | New | ||
| PLP of Wallonia | 5,220 | 0.09 | 0 | – | |||
| Total | 481,137 | 8.63 | 17 | –13 | |||
| Christian Social Party | 406,694 | 7.29 | 24 | +2 | |||
| Party of Reforms and Freedom of Wallonia | PRLW | 191,196 | 3.43 | 16 | New | ||
| PRLW–PRF | 107,015 | 1.92 | 0 | New | |||
| PRLW–Liberal Party | 92,178 | 1.65 | 0 | New | |||
| Total | 390,389 | 7.00 | 16 | New | |||
| Democratic Front of the Francophones | 263,104 | 4.72 | 11 | New | |||
| Communist Party of Belgium | KPB/PCB | 62,410 | 1.12 | 0 | –2 | ||
| PCB–UDP | 51,930 | 0.93 | 0 | New | |||
| PCB (Wallonia) | 37,104 | 0.67 | 2 | New | |||
| Total | 151,444 | 2.72 | 2 | 0 | |||
| PSC–CSP | 138,361 | 2.48 | 0 | New | |||
| Walloon Rally | 132,773 | 2.38 | 4 | –7 | |||
| PSB–Walloon Rally | 33,598 | 0.60 | 1 | New | |||
| All Power to the Workers | AMADA (Flanders) | 22,919 | 0.41 | 0 | New | ||
| TPO (Wallonia) | 1,980 | 0.04 | 0 | New | |||
| Total | 24,899 | 0.45 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Revolutionary Workers' League | RAL (Flanders) | 8,562 | 0.15 | 0 | New | ||
| LRT-RAL | 3,127 | 0.06 | 0 | New | |||
| LRT (Wallonia) | 2,905 | 0.05 | 0 | New | |||
| Total | 14,594 | 0.26 | 0 | New | |||
| ECOLOG | 11,839 | 0.21 | 0 | New | |||
| Party of German-speaking Belgians | 7,735 | 0.14 | 0 | 0 | |||
| ECOLOG–Snow White and Seven Dwarfs Party | 4,321 | 0.08 | 0 | New | |||
| Ecolo | 3,834 | 0.07 | 0 | New | |||
| United Feminist Party | PFU (Wallonia) | 1,514 | 0.03 | 0 | New | ||
| VFP (Flanders) | 967 | 0.02 | 0 | New | |||
| Total | 2,481 | 0.04 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Agalev | 2,435 | 0.04 | 0 | New | |||
| Francophone Women's Front | 2,099 | 0.04 | 0 | New | |||
| Centre Party–Belgian Radical Union | 1,547 | 0.03 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Return to Liège | 1,421 | 0.03 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Union of Belgians | 1,083 | 0.02 | 0 | New | |||
| People's National Front | 994 | 0.02 | 0 | New | |||
| Kaganovemus | 884 | 0.02 | 0 | 0 | |||
| ECOLOGIQUE | 777 | 0.01 | 0 | New | |||
| Ecologie Wallonia | 605 | 0.01 | 0 | New | |||
| Communist Party of Belgium – Marxist–Leninist | 533 | 0.01 | 0 | New | |||
| United Independent Party | 443 | 0.01 | 0 | New | |||
| Flanders–Brussels 77 | 377 | 0.01 | 0 | New | |||
| Union of Marxist–Leninist Communists of Belgium | 222 | 0.00 | 0 | New | |||
| UC–MEUNIER | 199 | 0.00 | 0 | New | |||
| Revolutionary Workers' Party | 175 | 0.00 | 0 | New | |||
| Parti Pris | 169 | 0.00 | 0 | New | |||
| European Workers Party | 152 | 0.00 | 0 | New | |||
| Total | 5,575,058 | 100.00 | 212 | 0 | |||
| Valid votes | 5,575,058 | 92.82 | |||||
| Invalid/blank votes | 431,153 | 7.18 | |||||
| Total votes | 6,006,211 | 100.00 | |||||
| Registered voters/turnout | 6,316,662 | 95.09 | |||||
| Source: Belgian Elections [3] | |||||||
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| Party | Votes | % | Seats | +/– | |
| Christian People's Party | 1,446,806 | 26.18 | 28 | +1 | |
| Belgian Socialist Party (Wallonia) | 756,401 | 13.69 | 19 | New | |
| Belgian Socialist Party (Flanders) | 719,533 | 13.02 | 12 | New | |
| People's Union | 562,894 | 10.19 | 10 | 0 | |
| Christian Social Party | 522,613 | 9.46 | 11 | +1 | |
| Party for Freedom and Progress | 472,645 | 8.55 | 9 | New | |
| Party of Reforms and Freedom of Wallonia | 316,292 | 5.72 | 7 | New | |
| Democratic Front of the Francophones | 246,367 | 4.46 | 6 | New | |
| Walloon Rally | 158,642 | 2.87 | 2 | New | |
| Communist Party of Belgium | 108,000 | 1.95 | 1 | 0 | |
| Liberal Party | 70,458 | 1.28 | 0 | New | |
| PCB–UDP | 50,749 | 0.92 | 0 | New | |
| PSB–Walloon Rally | 33,945 | 0.61 | 1 | New | |
| All Power to the Workers | 27,693 | 0.50 | 0 | New | |
| Party of German-speaking Belgians | 10,213 | 0.18 | 0 | 0 | |
| Ecolo | 7,558 | 0.14 | 0 | New | |
| Party for Freedom and Progress (Wallonia) | 5,305 | 0.10 | 0 | 0 | |
| United Feminist Party | 3,413 | 0.06 | 0 | 0 | |
| Agalev | 3,270 | 0.06 | 0 | New | |
| Union of Belgians | 1,182 | 0.02 | 0 | New | |
| United Independent Party | 896 | 0.02 | 0 | New | |
| Revolutionary Workers' League | 387 | 0.01 | 0 | New | |
| Belgian Radical Union | 207 | 0.00 | 0 | 0 | |
| Other parties | 502 | 0.01 | 0 | – | |
| Total | 5,525,971 | 100.00 | 106 | 0 | |
| Valid votes | 5,525,971 | 91.91 | |||
| Invalid/blank votes | 486,091 | 8.09 | |||
| Total votes | 6,012,062 | 100.00 | |||
| Registered voters/turnout | 6,012,062 | 100.00 | |||
| Source: Belgian Elections [4] | |||||
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