Chamber election 1964
The 1964 chamber election to determine the members of the Luxembourg Chamber of Deputies took place on June 7, 1964.
Starting position
After the chamber election in 1959 , in which the DP gained significantly, the coalition government made up of CSV and LSAP was replaced by a CSV / DP coalition. The new Prime Minister was Pierre Werner (CSV).
Suffrage
The seats are distributed proportionally within four constituencies using the D'Hondt procedure .
Result
Each voter had as many votes as there were elected representatives in the constituency. The results of the individual constituencies:
| South constituency | East constituency | Electoral District Center | North constituency | Luxembourg as a whole | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| number | % | Seats | number | % | Seats | number | % | Seats | number | % | Seats | number | % Un- weighted |
% Overall weighted * |
Seats | |
| Eligible voters | 75,066 | 21,353 | 62,558 | 32,811 | 191,788 | |||||||||||
| Voters | 68,762 | 91.6 | 19.192 | 89.9 | 56,127 | 89.7 | 29,621 | 90.3 | 173.702 | 90.57 | ||||||
| Valid ballot papers | 64,778 | 94.2 | 17,929 | 93.4 | 52,745 | 94.0 | 27,706 | 93.5 | 163.158 | 93.93 | ||||||
| Valid votes | 1,417,557 | 101,528 | 899.772 | 234.988 | 2,653,845 | |||||||||||
| Total seats | 23 | 6th | 18th | 9 | 56 | |||||||||||
| CSV | 421,954 | 29.8 | 7th | 47,068 | 46.4 | 3 | 306,959 | 34.1 | 7th | 107.098 | 45.6 | 5 | 883.079 | 33.28 | 35.66 | 22nd |
| LSAP | 593.103 | 41.8 | 10 | 25,449 | 25.1 | 2 | 303.417 | 33.7 | 6th | 77,874 | 33.1 | 3 | 999.843 | 37.68 | 35.91 | 21st |
| DP | 75,577 | 5.3 | 1 | 19,749 | 19.5 | 1 | 148.785 | 16.5 | 3 | 36,533 | 15.5 | 1 | 280,644 | 10.57 | 12.22 | 6th |
| KPL | 241.293 | 17.0 | 4th | 3,100 | 3.1 | 80,569 | 9.0 | 1 | 5,947 | 2.5 | 330.909 | 12.47 | 10.44 | 5 | ||
| MIP | 85,630 | 6.0 | 1 | 6.162 | 6.1 | 60,042 | 6.7 | 1 | 7,536 | 3.2 | 159,370 | 6.01 | 5.77 | 2 | ||
The LSAP became the party with the strongest vote for the first time, but the CSV received one more seat. The DP lost heavily, while the communists gained for the first time since 1945. The party of the forced recruits of World War II ( Mouvement Indépendent Populaire ) was newly represented in the Chamber with two seats.
Government formation
The previous ruling coalition of CSV and DP only had half of the seats. CSV and LSAP agreed a coalition, Pierre Werner remained Prime Minister. The new ministers were sworn in on July 15, 1964.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ismayr (Ed.) The Political Systems of Western Europe, 1st edition 1997, p. 386
- ^ A b Luxembourg government: Bulletin de documentation n ° 8 de l'année 1964. Les élections législatives du 7 juin 1964 et le nouveau gouvernement. (PDF; 2.4 MB)
