1999 Luxembourg general election

1999 Luxembourg general election

13 June 1999

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

Party Leader % Seats +/– CSV Jean-Claude Juncker 29.73 19 −2 LSAP Jean Asselborn 23.74 13 −4 DP Lydie Polfer 21.59 15 +3 Greens François Bausch 10.37 5 0 ADR Robert Mehlen 9.10 7 +2 The Left Collective leadership 3.76 1 New This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below. Results by commune Prime Minister before Prime Minister after Jean-Claude Juncker CSV Jean-Claude Juncker CSV

General elections were held in Luxembourg on 13 June 1999, 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. It formed a coalition government with the Democratic Party.

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	%	Seats	+/–
	Christian Social People's Party	870,985	29.73	19	–2
	Luxembourg Socialist Workers' Party	695,718	23.74	13	–4
	Democratic Party	632,707	21.59	15	+3
	Action Committee for Democracy and Pensions Justice	303,734	10.37	7	+2
	The Greens	266,644	9.10	5	0
	The Left	110,274	3.76	1	New
	Green and Liberal Alliance	32,014	1.09	0	New
	The Taxpayer	12,543	0.43	0	New
	Party of the Third Age	5,382	0.18	0	New
Total		2,930,001	100.00	60	0
Valid votes		178,880	93.52
Invalid/blank votes		12,387	6.48
Total votes		191,267	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		221,103	86.51
Source: Nohlen & Stöver, STATEC

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.

	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.