2004 Luxembourg general election

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2004 Luxembourg general election
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  1999 13 June 2004 2009  

All 60 seats in the Chamber of Deputies
31 seats needed for a majority
Turnout91.92% (Increase2.svg 5.41 pp)
PartyLeaderVote %Seats+/–
CSV Jean-Claude Juncker 35.8124+5
LSAP Jean Asselborn 25.4314+1
DP Lydie Polfer 14.9410−5
Greens François Bausch 11.547+2
ADR Robert Mehlen 9.045−2
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
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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 2004, [1] alongside European Parliament elections. The ruling Christian Social People's Party (CSV) of Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker won the election, increasing its number of seats to its highest since before 1989 and its share of the vote to levels not seen since the 1959 election.

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As expected, the CSV won a plurality of seats, adding 5 new deputies, and continued as the majority partner in the coalition government. However, the junior partner changed from the liberal Democratic Party (DP), which lost 5 seats, to the Luxembourg Socialist Workers' Party (LSAP), which gained one seat. The Greens also slightly increased their representation, whilst the Alternative Democratic Reform Party (ADR) lost ground.

The election coincided with the 2004 European Parliament election.

Candidates

List #PartyRunning inExisting seats
Centre Est Nord Sud
1 Alternative Democratic Reform Party (ADR) Yes check.svg Yes check.svg Yes check.svg Yes check.svg 7
2 Democratic Party (DP) Yes check.svg Yes check.svg Yes check.svg Yes check.svg 15
3 Luxembourg Socialist Workers' Party (LSAP) Yes check.svg Yes check.svg Yes check.svg Yes check.svg 13
4 The Greens Yes check.svg Yes check.svg Yes check.svg Yes check.svg 5
5 Christian Social People's Party (CSV) Yes check.svg Yes check.svg Yes check.svg Yes check.svg 19
6 The Left Yes check.svg Yes check.svg Yes check.svg Yes check.svg 1
7 Communist Party (KPL) Yes check.svg Red x.svg Red x.svg Yes check.svg 0
8 Free Party (FPL) Red x.svg Red x.svg Yes check.svg Red x.svg 0

Results

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PartyVotes%Seats+/–
Christian Social People's Party 1,103,82535.81245
Luxembourg Socialist Workers' Party 784,04825.4314+1
Democratic Party 460,60114.9410–5
The Greens 355,89511.547+2
Action Committee for Democracy and Pensions Justice 278,7929.045–2
The Left 62,0712.010–1
Communist Party of Luxembourg 35,5241.150New
Free Party of Luxembourg 1,9250.060New
Total3,082,681100.00600
Valid votes188,91094.41
Invalid/blank votes11,1825.59
Total votes200,092100.00
Registered voters/turnout217,68391.92
Source: Nohlen & Stöver

By locality

The CSV (orange) won pluralities in almost all communes in the country, limiting the success of the LSAP (red) and DP (light blue). Luxembourg legislative election 2004 communes map.png
The CSV (orange) won pluralities in almost all communes in the country, limiting the success of the LSAP (red) and DP (light blue).

The CSV won pluralities in all four districts; in the previous election, the Democratic Party had won a plurality in Centre. However, the CSV won a better-than-average increase in their vote share in Luxembourg City (of 7.4%) and Centre generally (7.5%), wiping out the DP's advantage and winning 2 deputies in that circonscription alone. The CSV's vote remaining roughly constant across all circonscriptions (in all cases between 35.5% and 38.6%):

CSVLSAPDPGreensADRThe LeftKPLFPL
Centre35.5%18.8%21.3%13.6%7.9%2.0%0.9%0.0%
Est38.6%16.5%19.1%12.1%12.3%1.3%0.0%0.0%
Nord36.3%15.8%20.2%10.9%14.7%1.3%0.0%0.7%
Sud35.6%32.2%9.5%10.2%8.4%2.3%1.7%0.0%

The CSV won pluralities across almost all of the country, winning more votes than any other party in 111 of the country's (then) 118 communes. The LSAP won pluralities in five communes in the industrial Red Lands: Differdange, Dudelange, Kayl, Rumelange, Schifflange. The DP won the northern communes of Schieren and Préizerdaul. [2]

References

  1. Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p1244 ISBN   978-3-8329-5609-7
  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.