Chamber election 1999

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40

30th

20th

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0

30.1

22.4

22.3

11.3

9.1

3.3

1.1

0.5

CSV

DP

LSAP

ADR

Gréng

Lénk ^f

GLA

Otherwise.

Gains and losses

compared to

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  -4

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+3.1

-3.1

+2.3

-0.8

+0.9

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-0.6

CSV

DP

LSAP

ADR

Gréng

Lénk ^f

GLA

Otherwise.

Remarks:

^f Déi Lénk was founded as an electoral party for the KPL and for the "New Left".

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13

7th

15th

19th

5

1 13 7th 15th 19th 5 

A total of 60 seats

• Lénk : 1
• LSAP : 13
• Gréng : 7
• DP : 15
• CSV : 19
• ADR : 5

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

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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	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

^* Share of votes taking into account the different numbers of votes per voter in the individual electoral districts

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

1. ↑ Fischer Weltalmanach 1995, Col. 411-412
2. ^ Luxembourg government: élections législatives et européennes 1999 (PDF; 14.6 MB)