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The Anticapitalist Left (French : la Gauche anticapitaliste, GA), also known as Flow for an Anticapitalist Project (Dutch : Stroming voor een Anticapitalistisch Project, SAP), is a Belgian Trotskyist political party. It is the Belgian section of the Fourth International. In the 2010 election, Front des gauches (CP, LCR, PSL and PH) received 1.15% of votes for the Senat.
The party was long led by Ernest Mandel. It publishes La Gauche and Rood.
| Election year | # of overall votes | % of overall vote | % of language group vote | # of overall seats won | # of language group seats won | +/- | Notes |
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| 1987 | 31,446 | 0.5 | 0 / 212 | ||||
| 1991 | 5,243 | 0.1 | 0 / 212 |  0 | |||
| Election year | # of overall votes | % of overall vote | % of language group vote | # of overall seats won | # of language group seats won | +/- | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1987 | 32,187 | 0.5 | 0 / 70 | ||||
| 1991 | 6,485 | 0.1 | 0 / 70 | 0 | |||
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