Chamber election 2018
The 24th chamber election in Luxembourg took place on October 14, 2018. The 60 members of the Chamber of Deputies were re-elected for five years.
While the ADR was able to record votes for the first time since 1999 and the pirates came to parliament for the first time in their history, the CSV achieved its worst result ever (even if you consider its predecessor party, the Rietspartei (PD)) and the LSAP its worst result since 1925.
Starting position
After the chamber elections in 2013 , the social democratic Lëtzebuerger Sozialistesch Aarbechterpartei (LSAP), the liberal Democratic Party (DP) and the first-time governing Greens ( Déi Gréng ) formed a government coalition. The Christian Social People's Party (CSV), the strongest party that had ruled from 1974 to 1979 with one exception since the Second World War, went into opposition.
Suffrage
Voting is compulsory for all Luxembourgers aged 18 and over, with the exception of those over 75 years of age and non-resident Luxembourgers entitled to vote.
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.
| Constituency | Seats | Cantons of the electoral district | |
| south | 23 | Capellen and Esch / Alzette | |
| center | 21st | Luxembourg and Mersch | |
| north | 9 | Clervaux , Diekirch , Redingen , Vianden and Wiltz | |
| east | 7th | Echternach , Grevenmacher and Remich | |
The seats will be distributed according to the D'Hondt procedure without a threshold clause . The voters have as many votes as there are representatives to be elected in the constituency. You can give a maximum of two votes to the same candidate. Within the list, the seats will be filled with the strongest applicants.
Participating parties
A total of ten parties took part in the election:
- Lëtzebuerg Pirate Party (PPLU) - List 1
- Déi Gréng - List 2
- Lëtzebuerger Sozialistesch Aarbechterpartei - List 3
- Chrëschtlech Sozial Vollekspartei (CSV) - List 4
- Communist Party Lëtzebuerg (KPL) - List 5
- Democratic Party (DP) - List 6
- Alternatively, the Democratic Reform Party (ADR) - List 7
- déi Lénk - List 8
- Democracy - List 9 (participation in the electoral districts center and south)
- déi Conservative - List 10 (participation in the southern constituency)
The citizens' initiative “Democracy” wanted to withdraw their lists after disputes over individual candidates and allegations that candidates had been put on the list in the constituency south without their knowledge. However, this was no longer possible because the deadline had expired.
Survey
Results
259,887 people were entitled to vote, of which 233,014 (89.7%) cast their votes. 216,177 ballots (92.8%) were valid. 38,276 voters voted by postal vote.
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The following table shows the results by electoral district and the overall result. The CSV became the party with the highest number of votes in all four constituencies. The second strongest party was the LSAP in the southern constituency, and the DP in all other constituencies.
| Political party | center | east | North | south | total | Weighted * | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| number | % | number | % | number | % | number | % | number | % | % | ||
| CSV | 337,689 | 29.14% | 62,156 | 29.40% | 111,067 | 32.23% | 488,448 | 26.91% | 999,360 | 28.31% | 28.90% | |
| DP | 280.143 | 24.17% | 43,677 | 20.66% | 59,039 | 17.14% | 214.216 | 11.80% | 597.075 | 16.92% | 17.50% | |
| LSAP | 135.967 | 11.73% | 27,222 | 12.88% | 54,632 | 15.86% | 403,400 | 22.23% | 621.221 | 17.60% | 16.77% | |
| déi gréng | 187.797 | 16.20% | 34,930 | 16.52% | 44,728 | 12.98% | 266.464 | 14.68% | 533.919 | 15.12% | 15.05% | |
| ADR | 79.159 | 6.83% | 20,255 | 9.58% | 33,751 | 9.80% | 159.199 | 8.77% | 292,364 | 8.28% | 8.56% | |
| PPLU | 59,539 | 5.14% | 14,761 | 6.98% | 26,421 | 7.67% | 126,830 | 6.99% | 227,551 | 6.45% | 6.61% | |
| déi Lénk | 66,253 | 5.72% | 6,984 | 3.30% | 12,165 | 3.53% | 108.189 | 5.96% | 193,591 | 5.48% | 5.04% | |
| KPL | 8,448 | 0.73% | 1,396 | 0.66% | 2,734 | 0.79% | 32,334 | 1.78% | 44,912 | 1.27% | 1.14% | |
| DEMOCRACY | 3,953 | 0.34% | - | - | - | - | 6,375 | 0.35% | 10,328 | 0.29% | 0.23% | |
| Déi Conservative | - | - | - | - | - | - | 9,516 | 0.52% | 9516 | 0.27% | 0.20% | |
Distribution of mandates in the newly elected chamber
The following table shows the mandates won according to constituencies and parties.
| Political party | center | east | North | south | total | Compared to 2013 |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PPLU | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | |
| déi gréng | 4th | 1 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 3 | |
| LSAP | 2 | 1 | 1 | 6th | 10 | 3 | |
| CSV | 7th | 3 | 4th | 7th | 21st | 2 | |
| KPL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| DP | 5 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 12 | 1 | |
| ADR | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 4th | 1 | |
| déi Lénk | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | ||
| DEMOCRACY | 0 | - | - | 0 | 0 | ||
| Déi Conservative | - | - | - | 0 | 0 | ||
For elected persons, see the list of members of the Luxembourg Chamber of Deputies (2018-2023)
After the election
Before the election, the three previous governing parties LSAP, DP and dei Gréng had 32 seats. After the election there were still 31. The main winners of the election were the Greens (déi Gréng) and the main losers were the CSV (- 5.37% and loss of 2 seats) and the social democratic LSAP (- 2.68% and loss of 3 seats) .
Overall, the developments were very similar to the tendencies in neighboring Germany: a decrease in the large “people 's parties ” CSV and LSAP, at the same time an increase in the Greens and right-wing conservative / right-wing populist ADR. The liberal DP also remained stable despite losses and the left (Déi Lénk) recorded minimal gains, as was the case in surveys in Germany . One difference, however, was the gain of the Pirate Party. On October 16, 2018, the incumbent Prime Minister Xavier Bettel (DP) was entrusted with the formation of the new government. On December 3, the DP, LSAP and the Greens agreed to continue the coalition. Among other things, a reduction in working hours by granting an additional day of vacation and the introduction of Europe Day as an additional public holiday, an increase in the minimum wage , the maintenance of the automatic adjustment of the wage level to the cost of living, the expansion of local public transport with a simultaneous reduction in the commuter allowance were agreed . the release of cannabis , a ban on the weed killer glyphosate , and the creation of affordable housing. The new government was sworn in on December 5, 2018.
Individual evidence
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- ↑ Birgit Reichert: Luxembourg expects an exciting election in 2018. Saarbrücker Zeitung , December 27, 2017, accessed on April 19, 2018.
- ↑ Electoral Law (PDF; 823 KB)
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- ↑ Tonia Koch: A triple union that lasts. Deutschlandfunk , December 3, 2018, accessed on the same day.
- ↑ Luxembourg Government: The Government Ministers are sworn in 2018
