Luxembourg general election, 1999

Luxembourg legislative election, 1999

13 June 1999
All 60 seats in the Chamber of Deputies 31 seats were needed for a majority
First party Second party Third party   Leader Jean-Claude Juncker Lydie Polfer Jean Asselborn Party CSV DP LSAP Last election 21 seats, 30.3% 12 seats, 19.3% 14 seats, 23.4% Seats won 19 15 13 Seat change 2 3 4 Popular vote 870,985 632,707 695,718 Percentage 30.1% 22.4% 22.3% Swing 0.2% 3.1% 3.1%
Results:   CSV   DP   LSAP
Prime Minister before election Jean-Claude Juncker CSV Prime Minister-designate Jean-Claude Juncker CSV

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General elections were held in Luxembourg on 13 June 1999,^[1] alongside European Parliament elections. The Christian Social People's Party remained the largest party, winning 19 of the 60 seats in the Chamber of Deputies.^[2] It formed a coalition government with the Democratic Party.^[3]

Candidates

List #	Party		Running in				Existing seats
			Centre	Est	Nord	Sud
1		The Left					0
2		Luxembourg Socialist Workers' Party (LSAP)					17
3		Democratic Party (DP)					12
4		Action Committee for Democracy and Pensions Justice					5
5		Green and Liberal Alliance (GaL)					0
6		Christian Social People's Party (CSV)					21
7		The Greens					5
8		The Taxpayer					0
9		Party of the Third Age					0

Results

^a The percentage of votes is not related to the number of votes in the table, as voters could cast more votes in some constituencies than others, and is instead calculated based on the proportion of votes received in each constituency.^[4]

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.^[5]

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.^[5]

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