1989 European Parliament election in Belgium

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	First party	Second party

Leader	Leo Tindemans	Ernest Glinne
Party	CVP	PS
Alliance	EPP	PES
Last election	4 seats, 19.80%	5 seats, 13.32%
Seats won	5	5
Seat change	1
Popular vote	1,247,075	854,207
Percentage	21.14%	14.48%
Swing	1.34%	1.16%

	Third party	Fourth party

Leader	Marc Galle	Willy De Clercq
Party	Vooruit	PVV-PLP
Alliance	PES	ALDE
Last election	4 seats, 17.12%	2 seats, 10.60%
Seats won	3	3
Seat change	1	1
Popular vote	733,242	678,421
Percentage	12.43%	11.37%
Swing	4.69%	0.77%

Elections to the European Parliament were held in Belgium on 18 June 1989. The Dutch-speaking electoral college elected 13 MEPs and the French-speaking electoral college elected 11 MEPs.

The first election to the newly established Brussels Regional Council was held on the same day.

Results


Party		Votes	%	Seats
French-speaking electoral college
	Socialist Party	854,207	38.13	5
	Christian Social Party	476,795	21.28	2
	Liberal Reformist Party	423,479	18.90	2
	Ecolo	371,053	16.56	2
	Democratic Front of Francophones	85,867	3.83	0
	Socialist Workers' Party	10,117	0.45	0
	Workers' Party of Belgium	9,031	0.40	0
	List for Europe, Workers and Democracy	5,503	0.25	0
	Humanist Party	4,342	0.19	0
Total		2,240,394	100.00	11
Dutch-speaking electoral college
	Christian People's Party	1,247,075	34.08	5
	Flemish Socialist Party	733,242	20.04	3
	Party for Freedom and Progress	625,561	17.10	2
	Agalev	446,539	12.20	1
	People's Union-European Free Alliance	318,153	8.70	1
	Vlaams Blok	241,117	6.59	1
	Rainbow	26,472	0.72	0
	Workers' Party of Belgium	20,747	0.57	0
Total		3,658,906	100.00	13

Valid votes		5,899,300	91.62
Invalid/blank votes		539,438	8.38
Total votes		6,438,738	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		7,096,273	90.73
Source: Belgian Elections

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