Polling stations have closed and results of the elections for the federal and Flemish parliaments are flooding in. In Flanders the far-right Vlaams Belang is making significant gains while PM De Croo’s Flemish liberals of Open VLD are piling up the losses as are the Flemish greens of Groen, another federal coalition party.
Results page: Gains for Flemish far-right, losses for liberals and greens
Colin Clapson
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Somewhat unexpectedly Bart De Wever’s Flemish nationalists remain the largest party ahead of the far-right Vlaams Belang. There are also significant gains for the Flemish socialists of Vooruit and the communists of the far-left Labour Party. The Flemish Christian democrats join the liberals and greens in the losers’ camp.
Here are the results of the election for the Flemish parliament.
Parties: Bart De Wever’s Flemish nationalist N-VA in amber, the far-right Vlaams Belang in yellow, the Flemish socialists of Vooruit in red, the Christian democrats in orange, PM De Croo’s liberals in blue, the far-left Labour Party in claret and the Flemish greens of Groen in green.
The Flemish parliament in seats:
Here are the results for the Chamber of Representatives, the lower house of Belgium’s federal parliament. No elections are held for the senate, the upper house.
Here are the results of the Brussels regional parliament (Flemish parties).
Political scientist Carl Devos: ‘Greens are big victors in Brussels’
Political scientist Carl Devos calls the situation in Brussels ‘a different world’. Unlike in the rest of the country, the Flemish ecologists of Groen are the big winners among the Dutch-speaking parties. ‘Good move – the regional government’s mobility plan - has not led to losses for the greens among Dutch-speakers,’ he says. ’The result of Team Fouad Ahidar (a breakaway from Flemish socialist Vooruit) he labels surprising. According to Mr Devos, people were looking out to see if the far-right Vlaams Belang and the Flemish nationalist N-VA would have a so-called blocking majority. "Whether, in other words, the other Flemish parties could form a Flemish majority without those two. It’s quite possible, because Green is the big victor" says Mr Devos.