What a day it was yesterday. The sun was out and everyone got to do their highest civil duty possible: VoTe!

For weeks the media were all over the place, saying that Vlaams Belang, the far right nationalist party, would be the biggest winner of the elections, with some even saying they could get up to 38% of the votes.

Belgium operates on different levels. You’ve got the Federal level which makes decisions for the entire country, you’ve got the Regional level for the three regions Wallonia, Brussels and Flanders, you’ve got a provincial level within these regions and you’ve got a municipal level for the cities and towns. Yesterday we voted for Federal, Regional and European levels.

These are the results:

Flanders

NVA - 23.9% - neoliberal nationalists

Vlaams Belang - 22.7% - far right nationalists

Vooruit - 13.9% - socdems

CD&V - 13% - Christian Democrats

Open VLD - 8.3% - liberals

PVDA - 8.3% - Communists (THAT’S US)

Groen - 7.3% - Green Party/socdem

Wallonia

MR - 29.6% - liberals

PS - 23.2% - socdems, same as Vooruit

Les Engagés - 20.7% - Christian Democrats, same as CD&V

PTB - 12.1% - Communists (us, again)

Ecolo - 7% - Green Party/socdem

Brussels

Groen - 22.8% - Green Party/socdem

Team Fouad Ahidar - 16.5% - independent socdem with muslim background

NVA - 11.9% - neoliberal nationalists

Open VLD - 10.6% - liberals

Vlaams Belang - 10.5% - far right nationalists

Vooruit - 10% - socdem

PVDA - 7% - communists, us

CD&V - 6.3% - Christian Democrats

VIVA PALESTINA! - 2.4% - No idea what ideology they belong to, one issue party

Federal

NVA - 16.7% - neoliberal nationalists

Vlaams Belang - 13.8% - far right nationalists

MR - 10.3% - liberals

PVDA/PTB - 9.9% - communists, us

Vooruit - 8.1% - Flemish socdems

PS - 8.1% - Wallonia socdems

CD&V - 8 % - Christian Democrats, Flemish

Les Engagés - 6.8% - Christian Democrats, Wallonia

Open VLD- 5.4% - liberals

Groen - 4.6% - Green party, Flemish

Ecolo - 2.9% - Green party, Wallonia

** I left several parties out of the results as I did not consider them noteworthy

    • DankZedong OPA
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      24 days ago

      I think we overperformed the last elections and we got a better result than expected from it. We are now seeing some consolidation, which isn’t necessarily a bad thing. Wallonia is less urban than Flanders so it needs slightly different tactics when it comes to building your party. Over here in Flanders we do well because there’s lots of bigger populations centers around, so it is easier to form local action groups. Bit harder in Luxemburg for example if the you live in a town with a population of 200 people and the next town is a 20 minute drive away.

      Still, we didn’t drop huge amount of votes so I think we can keep building and eventually see results.