German-speaking electoral college

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The constituency within Belgium.
The constituency within Belgium.

The German-speaking electoral college is a constituency of the European Parliament. It currently elects 1 MEP using the d'Hondt method of party-list proportional representation.

This is the European Parliament's smallest constituency, with an electorate at the 2004 election of just 46,914. Since the German-speaking electoral college elects only one member, the winner is effectively chosen by the first past the post method. This makes it the only European Parliament constituency without proportional representation.

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[edit] Boundaries

The constituency corresponds to the German-speaking Community of Belgium.

[edit] Member of the European Parliament

[edit] Election results

[edit] 2004

Party Votes % Change Seats
Christian Social Party (CSP) 15,722 42.49 +6.02 1 0
Party for Freedom and Progress (PFF) 8,434 22.79 +3.19 0 0
Socialist Party (SP) 5,527 14.94 +3.52 0 0
Ecolo 3,880 10.49 −6.52 0 0
Party of German-speaking Belgians (PJU-PDB) 3,442 9.3 N/A 0
Total 37,005     1 0

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