1999 Luxembourg general election

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]

1999 Luxembourg general election

13 June 1999
All 60 seats in the Chamber of Deputies 31 seats were needed for a majority
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

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

Party		Votes	%^[a]	Seats	+/–
	Christian Social People's Party	870,985	30.1	19	–2
	Democratic Party	632,707	22.4	15	+3
	Luxembourg Socialist Workers' Party	695,718	22.3	13	–4
	Action Committee for Democracy and Pensions Justice	303,734	11.3	7	+2
	The Greens	266,644	9.1	5	0
	The Left	110,274	3.3	1	New
	Green and Liberal Alliance	32,014	1.1	0	New
	The Taxpayer	12,543	0.4	0	New
	Party of the Third Age	5,382	0.1	0	New
Total		2,930,001	100	60	0
Valid votes		178,880	93.5
Invalid/blank votes		12,387	6.5
Total		191,267	100
Registered voters/turnout		221,103	86.5
Source: Nohlen & Stöver, STATEC

^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]

Popular Vote CSV   30.10% DP   22.35% LSAP   22.29% ADR   11.31% Déi Gréng   9.08% Déi Lénk   3.30% GaL   1.07% Others   0.50%

Seats CSV   31.67% DP   25.00% LSAP   21.67% ADR   11.67% Déi Gréng   8.33% Déi Lénk   1.67%

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]

	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%	15.4%	29.8%	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.[5]

References

1. Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p1244 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7
2. Nohlen & Stöver, p1262
3. Nohlen & Stöver, p1236
4. Nohlen & Stöver, p1254
5. "Répartition des suffrages en % du total des voix exprimés par parti et par commune 1994-2004" (in French). Statec. 15 October 2004. Retrieved 2008-03-01.