Chamber election 2013
(6.8% invalid votes)
The 23rd election to the Luxembourg Chamber ( Luxembourgish Chamberwale ) took place after the loss of parliamentary support for the incumbent Juncker-Asselborn II government on October 20, 2013.
Starting position
Jean-Claude Juncker from the Christian Social People's Party (CSV) has headed the Luxembourg government since 1995. Since 1984 the CSV formed a coalition with one interruption (1999 to 2004) with the social democratic Lëtzebuerger Sozialistesch Arbechterpartei (LSAP). This coalition was able to expand its majority in the 2009 chamber election with gains for the CSV and losses for the LSAP.
After the LSAP had withdrawn its trust in Juncker because of a secret service affair, this Grand Duke proposed to Henri early elections for the Chamber of Deputies. The Chamber of Deputies was then dissolved by the Grand Duke with effect from October 8, 2013.
Suffrage
All Luxembourgers aged 18 and over were eligible to vote. Voting is compulsory in Luxembourg . This does not apply to voters over 75 years of age and abroad, who are the only ones who can vote by letter .
The constitution prescribes proportional representation and defines the division of the country into the four electoral districts south, center, north and east. The distribution of the total of 60 seats to the electoral districts is determined by a law that must be adopted by the Chamber with a two-thirds majority. The number of people entitled to vote per seat is significantly lower in the Zentrum electoral district than in the other three electoral districts.
| Constituency | Seats |
Eligible voters in 2009 |
Eligible voters per seat in 2009 |
Area of the constituency |
| south | 23 | 89898 | 3909 | Cantons of Capellen and Esch / Alzette |
| center | 21st | 63391 | 3019 | Cantons of Luxembourg and Mersch |
| north | 9 | 39739 | 4415 | Cantons of Clervaux , Diekirch , Redingen , Vianden and Wiltz |
| east | 7th | 30814 | 4402 | Cantons of Echternach , Grevenmacher and Remich |
| Luxembourg | 60 | 223842 | 3731 |
There is no explicit blocking clause , but the distribution of mandates according to the D'Hondt procedure results in implicit blocking clauses of, for example, 3.23 to 4.55% in the south and 6.67 to 12.5% in the east.
Parties
Nine parties with 60 candidates each ran for election. The order on the ballot paper was drawn as follows on August 22, 2013 by the President of the main electoral office, Eliette Bauler:
| list | Political party | Political orientation | Number of seats before the election | European association | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Déi Lénk | socialist | 1 | EL (left) | |
| 2 | Alternatively, the Democratic Reform Party (ADR) | right-wing conservative | 2 | AECR (Conservatives) | |
| 3 | Communist Party Lëtzebuerg (KPL) | Communist | no | ||
| 4th | Democratic Party (DP) | liberal | 9 | ELDR (Liberals) | |
| 5 | Lëtzebuerg Pirate Party (PPLU) | Pirate party | no | PPEU (pirates) | |
| 6th | Déi Gréng | Green | 7th | EGP (Greens) | |
| 7th | Lëtzebuerger Sozialistesch Aarbechterpartei (LSAP) | social democratic | 13 | PES (Social Democrats) | |
| 8th | Chrëschtlech Sozial Vollekspartei (CSV) | Christian-social | 26th | EPP (Christian Democrats) | |
| 9 | Party fir integral democracy (PID) | 1 | |||
Results
Parties
| Political party | Percent 2009 | Seats 2009 | Percent 2013 | +/- | Seats 2013 | +/- | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chrëschtlech Sozial Vollekspartei | 38.0 | 26th | 33.7 | −4.3 | 23 | −3 | |
| Lëtzebuerger Sozialistesch Aarbechterpartei | 21.6 | 13 | 20.3 | −1.3 | 13 | 0 | |
| Democratic Party | 15.0 | 9 | 18.3 | +3.3 | 13 | +4 | |
| Déi Gréng | 11.7 | 7th | 10.1 | −1.6 | 6th | −1 | |
| Alternatively, the Democratic Reform Party | 8.1 | 4 (2) * | 6.6 | −1.5 | 3 | −1 (+1) * | |
| Déi Lénk | 3.3 | 1 | 4.9 | +1.6 | 2 | +1 | |
| Communist Party Lëtzebuerg | 1.5 | 0 | 1.6 | +0.1 | 0 | 0 | |
| Lëtzebuerg pirate party | - | - | 2.9 | +2.9 | 0 | 0 | |
| Party fir integral democracy | - | (1) * | 1.5 | +1.5 | 0 | 0 (−1) * | |
Results by constituency
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 | 95,397 | 33,841 | 67,232 | 43,198 | 239,668 | |||||||||||
| Voters | 87,574 | 91.8 | 30,911 | 91.3 | 60,472 | 89.9 | 39,917 | 92.4 | 218,874 | 91.32 | ||||||
| Valid ballot papers | 81,294 | 92.8 | 28,907 | 93.5 | 56,600 | 93.6 | 37.210 | 93.2 | 204.011 | 93.21 | ||||||
| Valid votes | 1,672,663 | 194.458 | 1,091,453 | 318.099 | 3,276,673 | |||||||||||
| Total seats | 23 | 7th | 21st | 9 | 60 | |||||||||||
| CSV | 539.306 | 32.2 | 8th | 71,727 | 36.9 | 3 | 385,405 | 35.3 | 8th | 107.163 | 33.7 | 4th | 1,103,601 | 33.68 | 34.05 | 23 |
| LSAP | 421,519 | 25.2 | 7th | 28,385 | 14.6 | 1 | 159,875 | 14.6 | 3 | 54,788 | 17.2 | 2 | 664,567 | 20.28 | 19.21 | 13 |
| DP | 213.182 | 12.7 | 3 | 36,237 | 18.6 | 2 | 273.092 | 25.0 | 6th | 75,426 | 23.7 | 2 | 597.937 | 18.25 | 19.08 | 13 |
| Déi Gréng | 163,641 | 9.8 | 2 | 25,486 | 13.1 | 1 | 114.142 | 10.5 | 2 | 28,646 | 9.0 | 1 | 331.915 | 10.13 | 10.32 | 6th |
| ADR | 125,826 | 7.5 | 2 | 16,901 | 8.7 | 54,709 | 5.0 | 1 | 20,246 | 6.4 | 217,682 | 6.64 | 6.78 | 3 | ||
| Déi Lénk | 95,819 | 5.7 | 1 | 5,941 | 3.1 | 51,859 | 4.8 | 1 | 8,138 | 2.6 | 161,757 | 4.94 | 4.47 | 2 | ||
| Pirate party | 50,676 | 3.0 | 5,226 | 2.7 | 29,631 | 2.7 | 10,733 | 3.4 | 96.266 | 2.94 | 2.96 | |||||
| PID | 22,571 | 1.3 | 3,018 | 1.6 | 13,318 | 1.2 | 10,384 | 3.3 | 49.291 | 1.50 | 1.70 | |||||
| KPL | 40.123 | 2.4 | 1,537 | 0.8 | 9,422 | 0.9 | 2,575 | 0.8 | 53,657 | 1.64 | 1.44 | |||||
Government formation
On October 24th, the Grand Duke appointed Democratic Party leader and Mayor of Luxembourg City, Xavier Bettel , as a formateur . He held talks on the formation of a three-party coalition made up of the LSAP, DP and the Greens. This constellation is referred to by the press as the " Gambia Coalition " because the colors of the parties involved correspond to those of the national flag of the African country. Although the LSAP is the strongest of the three governing parties in terms of votes, it let Bettel take precedence in forming a government. The reason for this was u. a. that the DP had the biggest gains in the election, while the LSAP had to record losses.
The CSV was outraged that it was excluded from the formation of the government as the party with the strongest vote by far and that the DP had not even accepted offers to talk. Your MEP Astrid Lulling spoke of “pirating the will of the voters”. The outgoing Minister of State Jean-Claude Juncker announced that he wanted to remain as opposition leader in Luxembourg politics and that he would still not seek a top position at European level. In the 2014 European elections , however, he ran as a candidate for the EU Commission for the EPP and became Commission President in November 2014.
On December 4, 2013, Bettel and his cabinet consisting of 15 ministers and three state secretaries were sworn in.
Web links
- Official election results on elections.public.lu
Individual evidence
- ^ National result on elections.public.lu
- ↑ The next steps . Day sheet
- ^ Election result 2009
- ↑ see factual threshold . Wahlrecht.de
- ↑ List numbers for the choice are fixed . Wort.lu, August 22, 2013.
- ↑ due to two resignations since 2009
- ↑ Seat through the founding of a party. Colombera follows Jaerling: party founded as an escape route wort.lu, June 26, 2013, accessed on October 21, 2013
- ↑ Luxembourg government: élections législatives 2013 (PDF, 3.4 kB)
- ↑ Grand Duke: Xavier Bettel called the formateur. Tageblatt Online, October 25, 2013.
- ↑ Bettel appointed formateur. Wort.lu, October 24, 2013.
- ↑ CSV: "Agreement with DP possible." Tageblatt Online, October 25, 2013.
- ↑ Astrid Lulling: Gambia Coalition is pirating the will of the voters. Wort.lu, October 26, 2013.
- ↑ Jean-Claude Juncker: “Stay in Luxembourgish politics.” Tageblatt Online, October 25, 2013.
- ↑ Bettel takes over from Juncker in Luxembourg . In: NZZ , December 4, 2013.
