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Partial general elections were held in Belgium on 29 May 1904. [1] The result was a victory for the Catholic Party, which won 38 of the 81 seats in the Chamber of Representatives. [2]
Belgium, officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Western Europe. It is bordered by the Netherlands to the north, Germany to the east, Luxembourg to the southeast, France to the southwest, and the North Sea to the northwest. It covers an area of 30,688 square kilometres (11,849 sq mi) and has a population of more than 11.4 million. The capital and largest city is Brussels; other major cities are Antwerp, Ghent, Charleroi and Liège.
The Catholic Party was established in 1869 as the Confessional Catholic Party.
Under the alternating system, Chamber elections were only held in the provinces of Hainaut, Limburg, Liège and East Flanders and Senate elections were only held in the remaining five provinces, being Antwerp, Brabant, Luxembourg, Namur and West Flanders.
Limburg is a province in Belgium. It is the easternmost of the five Dutch-speaking provinces that together form the Region of Flanders, one of the three main political and cultural sub-divisions of modern Belgium.
Party | Votes | % | Seats won | Total seats | +/- |
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Catholic Party | 486,643 | 43.53 | 38 | 92 | -1 |
Belgian Labour Party | 297,847 | 26.64 | 19 | 29 | -3 |
Liberal Party | 283,411 | 25.35 | 22 | 42 | +9 |
Catholic Dissidents | 17,391 | 1.56 | 1 | 1 | +1 |
Christian Democratic Party | 11,281 | 1.01 | 0 | 1 | -1 |
Christene Volkspartij | 9,480 | 0.85 | 1 | 1 | New |
Other parties | 11,887 | 1.06 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Radical Party | - | - | 0 | 0 | -2 |
Invalid/blank votes | 0 | - | – | - | - |
Total | 1,117,940 | 100 | 81 | 166 | +4 |
Source: Belgian Elections |
Party | Votes | % | Seats won | Total seats |
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Catholic Party | 511,745 | 55.45 | 25 | 37 |
Liberal Party | 352,028 | 38.21 | 16 | 39 |
Belgian Labour Party | 37,570 | 4.08 | 1 | 5 |
National Independents | 19,991 | 2.17 | 1 | 1 |
Radical Party | - | - | 0 | 4 |
Social Radical Party | - | - | 0 | 1 |
Invalid/blank votes | 0 | - | – | - |
Total | 921,334 | 100 | 43 | 87 |
Source: Belgian Elections |
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