Luxembourgian legislative election, 1999

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Legislative elections were held in Luxembourg on June 13, 1999. Voters elected 60 members of the Grand Duchy's unicameral legislature, the Chamber of Deputies.

The election coincided with the 1999 European Parliament election.

1 Results
- 1.1 Overall results
- 1.2 Results by locality
2 See also
3 Footnotes
4 External links

[edit] Results

[edit] Overall results

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**Summary of the 13 June 1999 Luxembourg Chamber of Deputies election results**
Parties		%	Seats
	Christian Social People's Party (Chrëschtlich Sozial Vollekspartei)	30.1	19
	Democratic Party (Demokratesch Partei)	22.4	15
	Luxembourg Socialist Workers' Party (Lëtzebuergesch Sozialistesch Arbechterpartei)	22.3	13
	Action Committee for Democracy and Pensions Justice (Aktiounskomitee fir Demokratie an Rentengerechtigkeet)	11.3	7
	The Greens (Déi Gréng)	9.1	5
	The Left (Déi Lénk-La Gauche)	3.3	1
	Green and Liberal Alliance (Gréng a Liberal Allianz)	1.1	-
	The Taxpayer (De Steierzueler)	0.4	-
	Party of the Third Age (Partei vum 3. Alter)	0.1	-
Total			60
Source: Centre Informatique de l'État

Under Luxembourg's electoral system the country is divided into four multi-member constituencies: Centre, Est, Nord, and Sud. Voters may vote for as many candidates as the region elects Deputies. The number of voters cast for each party therefore cannot be stated.

[edit] Results by locality

The CSV (orange) won most of the countryside, whilst the LSAP (red) won the major towns in the Red Lands and the DP (light blue) won Luxembourg City and its eastern suburbs.

The CSV won pluralities in three of the four circonscriptions, falling behind the Democratic Party in Centre (around Luxembourg City) but beating the LSAP in its core Sud constituency. Much of the realignment nationally can be explained by a weakening of the LSAP's position in Sud, which has the most seats and where the LSAP's share of the vote fell from 33.5% to 29.8%, to the advantage of both the CSV and the DP.^[1]

	CSV	DP	LSAP	ADR	Greens	The Left	GaL	Taxpayer	Pv3A
Centre	28.0%	30.1%	17.2%	9.5%	9.7%	2.8%	1.4%	1.3%	-
Est	32.4%	24.6%	18.0%	13.6%	8.6%	1.6%	1.1%	-	-
Nord	31.3%	24.3%	16.5%	16.7%	9.2%	1.4%	0.8%	-	-
Sud	30.3%	29.8%	15.4%	9.5%	8.7%	5.0%	0.9%	-	0.4%

The CSV won pluralities across almost all of the country, winning more votes than any other party in 86 of the country's (then) 118 communes. The LSAP won pluralities in 14 communes, mostly in the Red Lands in the south. The DP won 18 communes, particularly in its heartland of Luxembourg City and the surrounding communes.^[1]

[edit] See also

European Parliament election, 1999

[edit] Footnotes

^ ^a ^b (French) Répartition des suffrages en % du total des voix exprimés par parti et par commune 1994-2004. Statec (15 October 2004). Retrieved on 2008-03-01.

[edit] External links

Luxembourg election results at Adam Carr's Election Archive

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