Chamber election 1999
The 1999 chamber election to determine the 60 members of the Luxembourg Chamber of Deputies took place on June 13, 1999 at the same time as the European elections.
Starting position
In the 1994 election , the governing parties CSV and LSAP (Socialists) retained a clear majority with 38 of the 60 seats despite slight losses. The coalition continued, with Jacques Santer (CSV) remaining Prime Minister . When Santer became President of the European Commission in January 1995 , Jean-Claude Juncker succeeded him as 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 | 92,259 | 28.203 | 63,378 | 37.263 | 221.103 | |||||||||||
Voters | 78,920 | 85.5 | 24,222 | 85.9 | 55,472 | 87.5 | 32,653 | 87.6 | 191.267 | 86.51 | ||||||
Valid ballot papers | 73,547 | 93.2 | 22,690 | 93.7 | 51,913 | 93.6 | 30,730 | 94.1 | 178,880 | 93.52 | ||||||
Valid votes | 1,528,249 | 150.270 | 993.419 | 258.063 | 2,930,001 | |||||||||||
Total seats | 23 | 7th | 21st | 9 | 60 | |||||||||||
CSV | 462.998 | 30.3 | 7th | 48,765 | 32.5 | 3 | 278,580 | 28.0 | 6th | 80,642 | 31.2 | 3 | 870.985 | 29.73 | 30.09 | 19th |
DP | 234,772 | 15.4 | 4th | 36,935 | 24.6 | 2 | 298,629 | 30.1 | 7th | 62,371 | 24.2 | 2 | 632.707 | 21.59 | 22.35 | 15th |
LSAP | 454.940 | 29.8 | 7th | 27,037 | 18.0 | 1 | 171.116 | 17.2 | 4th | 42,625 | 16.5 | 1 | 695.718 | 23.74 | 22.29 | 13 |
ADR | 145.886 | 9.5 | 2 | 20,358 | 13.5 | 1 | 94,343 | 9.5 | 2 | 43,147 | 16.7 | 2 | 303.734 | 10.37 | 11.31 | 7th |
Déi Gréng | 133,980 | 8.8 | 2 | 13,047 | 8.7 | 95,977 | 9.7 | 2 | 23,640 | 9.2 | 1 | 266,644 | 9.10 | 9.08 | 5 | |
Déi Lénk | 76.174 | 5.0 | 1 | 2,448 | 1.6 | 27,999 | 2.8 | 3,653 | 1.4 | 110.274 | 3.76 | 3.30 | 1 | |||
Gréng a Liberal Alliance | 14,117 | 0.9 | 1,680 | 1.1 | 14,232 | 1.4 | 1,985 | 0.8 | 32,014 | 1.09 | 1.07 | |||||
De Steierzueler | 12,543 | 1.3 | 12,543 | 0.43 | 0.36 | |||||||||||
Party vum 3rd age | 5,382 | 0.4 | 5,382 | 0.18 | 0.14 |
The CSV lost two seats, the co-governing LSAP four seats. The DP won three seats and became the second largest party for the first time since 1979. The ADR won two seats. Déi Lénk moved into parliament for the first time in an alliance with the KPL, which left the Chamber in 1994 .
Government formation
The coalition of CSV and LSAP that had existed since 1984 was discontinued. The CSV formed a coalition with the second largest party, the DP, and Juncker remained Prime Minister. The Juncker-Polfer government took office on August 7, 1999.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Fischer Weltalmanach 1995, Col. 411-412
- ^ Luxembourg government: élections législatives et européennes 1999 (PDF; 14.6 MB)