Luxembourg general election, 1984

Luxembourg legislative election, 1984

17 June 1984

All 64 seats in the Chamber of Deputies 33 seats were needed for a majority

	First party	Second party	Third party

Leader	Jacques Santer	Jacques Poos	Colette Flesch
Party	CSV	LSAP	DP
Last election	24 seats, 36.4	14 seats, 22.5%	15 seats, 21.9%
Seats won	22	21	14
Seat change	1	7	1
Popular vote	1,148,085	1,104,740	614,627
Percentage	36.7%	31.8%	20.4%
Swing	0.3%	5.6%	1.5%

Prime Minister before election

Pierre Werner
CSV

Prime Minister

Jacques Santer
CSV

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General elections were held in Luxembourg on 17 June 1984.^[1] The Christian Social People's Party remained the largest party, winning 25 of the 64 seats in the Chamber of Deputies.^[2] It formed a coalition government with the Luxembourg Socialist Workers' Party.^[3]

Results

Party	Votes	%^[a]	Seats	+/–
Christian Social People's Party	1,148,085	36.7	25	+1
Luxembourg Socialist Workers' Party	1,104,740	31.8	21	+7
Democratic Party	614,627	20.4	14	–1
Communist Party of Luxembourg	165,960	4.4	2	0
Green Alternative Party	169,862	4.2	2	New
Independent Socialist Party	81,002	2.4	0	–1
Others	6,686	0.2	0	–
Invalid/blank votes	11,657	–	–	–
Total	191,651	100	64	+5
Registered voters/turnout	215,792	88.8	–	–
Source: Nohlen & Stöver

^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			36.7%
LSAP			31.8%
DP			20.4%
KPL			4.4%
Green Alternative			4.2%
Independent Socialist			2.4%

References

↑ Nohlen, D & Stöver, P (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p1244 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7
↑ Nohlen & Stöver, p1262
↑ Nohlen & Stöver, p1236
↑ Nohlen & Stöver, p1254

Elections and referendums in Luxembourg

General elections	1848 (Apr) 1848 (Sep) 1915 1918 1919 1922* 1925 1928* 1931* 1934* 1937* 1945 1948* 1951* 1954 1959 1964 1968 1974 1979 1984 1989 1994 1999 2004 2009 2013

Communal elections	1981 1987 1993 1999 2005 2011 2017

European elections	1979 1984 1989 1994 1999 2004 2009 2014

Referendums	1919 1937 2005 2015

* Partial elections.

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