1999 Luxembourg general election

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1999 Luxembourg general election
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  1994 13 June 1999 2004  

All 60 seats in the Chamber of Deputies
31 seats were needed for a majority
Turnout86.51% (Decrease2.svg 1.79 pp)
PartyLeaderVote %Seats+/–
CSV Jean-Claude Juncker 29.7319−2
LSAP Jean Asselborn 23.7413−4
DP Lydie Polfer 21.5915+3
Greens François Bausch 10.3750
ADR Robert Mehlen 9.107+2
The Left Collective leadership3.761New
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
Luxembourg legislative election 1999 communes map.png
Results by commune
Prime Minister beforePrime Minister after
Jean-Claude Juncker
CSV
Jean-Claude Juncker
CSV

General elections were held in Luxembourg on 13 June 1999, [1] alongside European Parliament elections. The Christian Social People's Party remained the largest party, winning 19 of the 60 seats in the Chamber of Deputies. [2] It formed a coalition government with the Democratic Party. [3]

Contents

Candidates

List #PartyRunning inExisting seats
Centre Est Nord Sud
1 The Left Yes check.svg Yes check.svg Yes check.svg Yes check.svg 0
2 Luxembourg Socialist Workers' Party (LSAP) Yes check.svg Yes check.svg Yes check.svg Yes check.svg 17
3 Democratic Party (DP) Yes check.svg Yes check.svg Yes check.svg Yes check.svg 12
4 Action Committee for Democracy and Pensions Justice Yes check.svg Yes check.svg Yes check.svg Yes check.svg 5
5 Green and Liberal Alliance (GaL) Yes check.svg Yes check.svg Yes check.svg Yes check.svg 0
6 Christian Social People's Party (CSV) Yes check.svg Yes check.svg Yes check.svg Yes check.svg 21
7 The Greens Yes check.svg Yes check.svg Yes check.svg Yes check.svg 5
8 The Taxpayer Yes check.svg Red x.svg Red x.svg Red x.svg 0
9 Party of the Third Age Red x.svg Red x.svg Red x.svg Yes check.svg 0

Results

Composition Chambre des deputes du Luxembourg 13-06-1999.svg
PartyVotes%Seats+/–
Christian Social People's Party 870,98529.7319–2
Luxembourg Socialist Workers' Party 695,71823.7413–4
Democratic Party 632,70721.5915+3
Action Committee for Democracy and Pensions Justice 303,73410.377+2
The Greens 266,6449.1050
The Left 110,2743.761New
Green and Liberal Alliance 32,0141.090New
The Taxpayer 12,5430.430New
Party of the Third Age 5,3820.180New
Total2,930,001100.00600
Valid votes178,88093.52
Invalid/blank votes12,3876.48
Total votes191,267100.00
Registered voters/turnout221,10386.51
Source: Nohlen & Stöver, STATEC

By locality

The CSV (orange) won most of the countryside, whilst the LSAP (red) won the major towns in the Red Lands and the DP (light blue) won Luxembourg City and its eastern suburbs. Luxembourg legislative election 1999 communes map.png
The CSV (orange) won most of the countryside, whilst the LSAP (red) won the major towns in the Red Lands and the DP (light blue) won Luxembourg City and its eastern suburbs.

The CSV won pluralities in three of the four circonscriptions, falling behind the Democratic Party in Centre (around Luxembourg City) but beating the LSAP in its core Sud constituency. Much of the realignment nationally can be explained by a weakening of the LSAP's position in Sud, which has the most seats and where the LSAP's share of the vote fell from 33.5% to 29.8%, to the advantage of both the CSV and the DP. [4]

CSVDPLSAPADRGreensThe LeftGaLTaxpayerPv3A
Centre28.0%30.1%17.2%9.5%9.7%2.8%1.4%1.3%-
Est32.4%24.6%18.0%13.6%8.6%1.6%1.1%--
Nord31.3%24.3%16.5%16.7%9.2%1.4%0.8%--
Sud30.3%15.4%29.8%9.5%8.7%5.0%0.9%-0.4%

The CSV won pluralities across almost all of the country, winning more votes than any other party in 86 of the country's (then) 118 communes. The LSAP won pluralities in 14 communes, mostly in the Red Lands in the south. The DP won 18 communes, particularly in its heartland of Luxembourg City and the surrounding communes. [4]

References

  1. Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p1244 ISBN   978-3-8329-5609-7
  2. Nohlen & Stöver, p1262
  3. Nohlen & Stöver, p1236
  4. 1 2 "Répartition des suffrages en % du total des voix exprimés par parti et par commune 1994-2004" (in French). Statec. 15 October 2004. Retrieved 2008-03-01.