Chamber election 1984
The 1984 chamber election to determine the members of the Luxembourg Chamber of Deputies took place on June 17, 1984 at the same time as the European elections.
Starting position
After the 1979 chamber election , in which the then ruling DP / LSAP coalition lost its majority, a government was formed from the CSV and the DP . Pierre Werner , who already held this office from 1959 to 1974, became Prime Minister .
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 | ||||||||||||
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number | % | Seats | number | % | Seats | number | % | Seats | number | % | Seats | number | % Un- weighted |
% Overall weighted * |
Seats | |
Eligible voters | 86,679 | 25,316 | 69,603 | 34,194 | 215.792 | |||||||||||
Voters | 77,732 | 89.7 | 22.205 | 87.7 | 61,233 | 88.0 | 30,481 | 89.1 | 191,651 | 88.81 | ||||||
Valid ballot papers | 73.086 | 94.0 | 20,921 | 94.2 | 57,331 | 93.6 | 28,656 | 94.0 | 179.994 | 93.92 | ||||||
Valid votes | 1,703,317 | 136,852 | 1,212,024 | 238,769 | 3,290,962 | |||||||||||
Total seats | 25th | 7th | 23 | 9 | 64 | |||||||||||
CSV | 543,513 | 31.9 | 8th | 57,989 | 42.4 | 3 | 437.313 | 36.1 | 9 | 109,270 | 45.8 | 5 | 1,148,085 | 34.89 | 36.65 | 25th |
LSAP | 703.259 | 41.3 | 11 | 35,224 | 25.7 | 2 | 307,584 | 25.4 | 6th | 58,673 | 24.6 | 2 | 1,104,740 | 33.57 | 31.79 | 21st |
DP | 199,874 | 11.7 | 3 | 37.501 | 27.4 | 2 | 314,742 | 26.0 | 7th | 62,510 | 26.2 | 2 | 614.627 | 18.68 | 20.36 | 14th |
KPL | 124.216 | 7.3 | 2 | 2,844 | 2.1 | 35.191 | 2.9 | 3,709 | 1.6 | 165.960 | 5.04 | 4.38 | 2 | |||
Di Grëng - alternative | 96,774 | 5.7 | 1 | 73,088 | 6.0 | 1 | 169,862 | 5.16 | 4.22 | 2 | ||||||
PSI | 31,634 | 1.9 | 3,294 | 2.4 | 41,467 | 3.4 | 4,607 | 1.9 | 81.002 | 2.46 | 2.34 | |||||
LCR | 4,047 | 0.2 | 2,639 | 0.2 | 6,686 | 0.20 | 0.17 |
The CSV was able to keep its share of the vote from 1979, while the co-ruling DP lost slightly. The LSAP was able to gain significantly after several consecutive election defeats. The LSAP spin-off SDP , which received two seats in 1979, did not run. The PSI, also a spin-off from the LSAP, lost its only seat. The Greens competed for the first time and received two seats.
Government formation
After the LSAP was elected, it replaced the DP as a coalition partner of the CSV. The new Prime Minister was Jacques Santer (CSV), who replaced Pierre Werner, who was retiring for reasons of age, on July 20, 1984.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ismayr (Ed.) The Political Systems of Western Europe, 1st edition 1997, p. 386
- ↑ Luxembourg Government: Bulletin de documentation 5/1984 (PDF; 4.7 MB)