Elective Canton (Belgium)

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Electoral cantons of Belgium.
Bottom left: the Brussels constituency enlarged.

Elective canton , French Canton électoral , Dutch Kieskanton is a term used in Belgian suffrage. An electoral canton subdivides a number of municipalities in Belgium under a commonelectoralevaluation office. The legal basis for the classification is the table for Art. 87 of the Electoral Code of 1894.

The size of the electoral canton may differ from the size of the court canton . As of 2019, there have been 210 electoral cantons, which are divided among the Brussels-Capital Region and the ten provinces as follows :

area Electoral
cantons
Cantons of court
Brussels Capital RegionBrussels Capital Region BRU 8th 19th
Flemish Brabant ProvinceFlemish Brabant Province VBR 15th 14th
Limburg ProvinceLimburg Province   VLI 15th 11
Antwerp ProvinceAntwerp Province VAN 17th 23
East Flanders ProvinceEast Flanders Province VOV 31 21st
West Flanders ProvinceWest Flanders Province VWV 25th 17th
Walloon BrabantWalloon Brabant WBR 5 5
HainautHainaut WHT 34 20th
Namur ProvinceNamur Province WNA 14th 8th
Luxembourg ProvinceLuxembourg Province WLX 20th 5
Liege ProvinceLiege Province WLG 26th 19th
total 210 162