French-speaking electoral college

French-speaking electoral college
European Parliament constituency
Location among the current constituencies
Shown within Belgium
Member state	Belgium
Created	1979
MEPs	8
Sources
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The French-speaking electoral college is one of three constituencies of the European Parliament in Belgium. It currently elects 8 MEPs using the D'Hondt method of party-list proportional representation. It elected 9 MEPs until the 2007 accession of Bulgaria and Romania.

Prior to the 1999 elections, electors in the German-speaking community were voting in the French-speaking electoral college, along with the rest of the Walloon region where they are located; they vote now in their own German-speaking electoral college.

Boundaries

The constituency corresponds to the French Community of Belgium. In officially bilingual Brussels, electors can choose between lists of this electoral college or those of the Dutch-speaking electoral college.

Prior to the 2011–2012 state reform, electors could choose between both lists not only in Brussels, but in an area encompassing unilingually Dutch territory, Brussels-Halle-Vilvoorde. Some towns in the officially Dutch-speaking Brussels Periphery still have this option however.

Members of the European Parliament

2019–2024

• Marie Arena, PS
• Marc Botenga, PTB
• Saskia Bricmont, Ecolo
• Olivier Chastel, MR
• Philippe Lamberts, Ecolo
• Benoît Lutgen, CDH
• Frédérique Ries, MR
• Marc Tarabella, PS

2014–2019

• Marie Arena, PS
• Hugues Bayet, PS
• Gérard Deprez, MR
• Philippe Lamberts, Ecolo
• Louis Michel, MR
• Frédérique Ries, MR
• Claude Rolin, CDH
• Marc Tarabella, PS

2009–2014

• Frédéric Daerden, PS
• Véronique de Keyser, PS
• Anne Delvaux, CDH
• Isabelle Durant, Ecolo
• Philippe Lamberts, Ecolo
• Louis Michel, MR
• Frédérique Ries, MR
• Marc Tarabella, PS

2004–2009

• Philippe Busquin, PS
• Gerard Deprez, MR
• Antoine Duquesne, MR
• Alain Hutchinson, PS
• Pierre Jonckheer, Ecolo
• Véronique de Keyser, PS
• Joëlle Milquet, CDH
• Frédérique Ries, MR
• Marc Tarabella, PS

Election results

2019

Main article: European Parliament election, 2019 (Belgium)

Party		Affiliation	Votes	%	Change	Seats	Change
	Socialist Party (PS)	PES	651,157	26.69	2.60	2	1
	Ecolo	EGP	485,655	19.91	8.22	2	1
	Reformist Movement (MR)	ELDR	470,654	19.29	7.81	2	1
	Workers Party of Belgium (PTB)	None	355,883	14.59	9.11	1	1
	Humanist Democratic Centre (CDH)	EPP	218,078	8.94	2.42	1
	DéFI	None	144,555	5.92	2.54	0
	People's Party (PP)	None	113,793	4.66	1.32	0
Total			2,439,775	100	–	8

2014

Main article: European Parliament election, 2014 (Belgium)

Party		Affiliation	Votes	%	Change	Seats	Change
	Socialist Party (PS)	PES	714,645	29.29	0.19	3
	Reformist Movement (MR)	ELDR	661,332	27.10	1.05	3	1
	Ecolo	EGP	285,196	11.69	11.19	1	1
	Humanist Democratic Centre (CDH)	EPP	277,246	11.36	1.98	1
	People's Party (PP)	ADDE	145,909	5.98	5.98	0
	Workers Party of Belgium (PTB)	None	133,811	5.48	4.32	0
	Francophone Democratic Federalists (FDF)	None	82,540	3.38	3.38	0
	Debout Les Belges! (DLB!)	None	72,671	2.98	2.98	0
	La Droite	None	38,813	1.59	1.59	0
	Vega	None	15,208	0.62	0.62	0
	Stand Up USE	None	7,970	0.33	0.33	0
	MG	None	4,705	0.19	0.19	0
Total			2,440,046	100	–	8

2009

Main article: European Parliament election, 2009 (Belgium)

Party		Affiliation	Votes	%	Change	Seats	Change
	Socialist Party (PS)	PES	714,947	29.10	6.99	3	1
	Reformist Movement (MR)	ELDR	640,092	26.05	1.53	2	1
	Ecolo	EGP	562,081	22.88	13.03	2	1
	Humanist Democratic Centre (CDH)	EPP	327,824	13.34	1.80	1	0
	National Front (FN)	None	87,706	3.57	3.88	0	0
	Workers Party of Belgium+ (PTB)	None	28,483	1.16	0.35	0	0
	Others		96,045	3.91	–	0	–
Total			2,457,178	100	–	8	1

2004

Main article: European Parliament election, 2004 (Belgium)

Party	Votes	%	Change	Seats
Socialist Party (PS)	878,577	36.09	+10.31	4	+1
Reformist Movement (MR)	671,422	27.58	+0.59	3	0
Democratic Humanist Centre (CDH)	368,753	15.15	+1.84	1	+1
Ecologists (Ecolo)	239,687	9.84	−12.86	1	−2
National Front (FN)	181,351	7.45	+3.35	0	0
New Belgian Front (FNB)	26,775	1.1	+0.03	0	0
Rassemblement Wallonie-France (RWF)	23,090	0.95	N/A	0
CDF	19,718	0.81	N/A	0
Workers' Party of Belgium (PTB+)	19,645	0.81	N/A	0
Movement for a Socialist Alternative (MAS)	5,675	0.23	N/A	0
Total	2,434,693			9