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