1974 Belgian general election

1974 Belgian general election

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212 seats in the Chamber of Representatives
First party Second party Third party   Leader Edmond Leburton Leo Tindemans Frans Grootjans Party Socialist CVP Open Vld Leader since Candidate for PM Candidate for PM 1973 Last election 25 seats, 10.40%[a] 40 seats, 18.32% 16 seats, 7.42% Seats won 59 50 30 Seat change 34 10 14 Popular vote 1,401,725 1,222,646 798,818 Percentage 26.66% 23.25% 15.19% Swing 16.26% 4.91% 7.77%   Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party   Leader Frans Van der Elst Charles-Ferdinand Nothomb André Lagasse Party VU cdH DéFI Leader since 1955 1972 1972 Last election 21 seats, 11.11% 15 seats, 6.20% 12 seats, 5.43% Seats won 22 22 14 Seat change 1 7 2 Popular vote 536,287 478,209 301,303 Percentage 10.20% 9.09% 5.73% Swing 0.91% 2.89% 0.30%
Results by constituency for the Chamber of Representatives
Government before election Leburton II BSP/PSB-CVP-PSC-PVV-PRL Government after election Tindemans I CVP-PSC-PVV-PRL

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General elections were held in Belgium on 10 March 1974.^[1] The Belgian Socialist Party emerged as the largest faction in the Chamber of Representatives with 59 of the 212 seats. Voter turnout was 90.3%.^[2] Elections were also held for the nine provincial councils, as well as for the Council of the German Cultural Community for the first time.