French-speaking electoral college

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.

French-speaking electoral college
European Parliament constituency
Location among the current constituencies
Shown within Belgium
Member state	Belgium
Created	1979
MEPs	8
Sources

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.^[1] In the rest of the country, voters vote according to the region in which they reside.^[1]

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

Representatives of the French-Speaking community (1979–present)
Election	MEP (Party)		MEP (Party)		MEP (Party)		MEP (Party)		MEP (Party)		MEP (Party)		MEP (Party)		MEP (Party)		MEP (Party)		MEP (Party)		MEP (Party)		MEP (Party)
1979		André Damseaux (PRL)		Jean Rey (PRL)		Fernand Delmotte (PS)		Ernest Glinne (PS)		Anne-Marie Lizin (PS)		Lucien Radoux (PS)		Paul-Henry Gendebien (DéFI)		Antoinette Spaak (DéFI)		Fernand Herman (CSP)		Charles-Ferdinand Nothomb (CSP)		Stephen Harcourt (CSP)	11 seats
1984	Luc Beyer de Ryke (PRL)	Daniel Ducarme (PRL)	Raymonde Dury (PS)	José Happart (PS)		Marcel Remacle (PS)			François Roelants du Vivier (Ecolo)		Anne-Marie Lizin (CSP)		Michel Toussaint (PRL)
1989	François-Xavier de Donnea (PRL)	Jean Defraigne (PRL)			Claude Delcroix (PS)	Paul Lannoye (Ecolo)	Gérard Deprez (CSP)				Elio Di Rupo (PS)		Brigitte Ernst de la Graete (Ecolo)
1991	Anne André-Léonard (PRL)
1994		Philippe Monfils (PRL)			Claude Desama (PS)				Antoinette Spaak (DéFI)		Daniel Féret (FN)	10 seats
1998			Claude Delcroix (PS)
1999	Daniel Ducarme (PRL)	Frédérique Ries (PRL)	Jean-Maurice Dehousse (PS)				Brigitte Ernst de la Graete (Ecolo)	Freddy Thielemans (PS)		Pierre Jonckheer (Ecolo)		Gérard Deprez (MCC)	Michel Hansenne (CSP)
2001				Olga Zrihen (PS)	Véronique De Keyser (PS)
2003	Anne André-Léonard (PRL)
2004		Jacqueline Rousseaux (PRL)
2004		Frédérique Ries (MR)		Gérard Deprez (MR)		Philippe Busquin (PS)	Marc Tarabella (PS)		Alain Hutchinson (PS)			Raymond Langendries (CDH)		Antoine Duquesne (MR)	9 seats
2007	Giovanna Corda (PS)
2009	Louis Michel (MR)		Frédéric Daerden (PS)	Marc Tarabella (PS)			Philippe Lamberts (Ecolo)	Isabelle Durant (Ecolo)	Anne Delvaux (CDH)	8 seats
2014			Marie Arena (PS)		Hugues Bayet (PS)			Gérard Deprez (MR)	Claude Rolin (CDH)
2019	Olivier Chastel (MR)					Saskia Bricmont (Ecolo)			Marc Botenga (PTB)		Benoît Lutgen (CDH)
2024		Sophie Wilmès (MR)	Elio Di Rupo (PS)	Estelle Ceulemans (PS)			Benoît Cassartt (MR)				Yvan Verougstraete (LE)

Election results

2024

Main article: European Parliament election, 2024 (Belgium)

Party		EU party	EP group	Votes	%	Change	Seats	Change
	Reformist Movement	ALDE	RE	900,413	34.88	+15.59	3	+1
	Socialist Party	PES	S&D	529,697	20.52	-6.17	2	-
	Workers' Party of Belgium	ELA	Left	397,055	15.38	+1.21	1	-
	Les Engagés	ALDE	RE	368,338	14.28	new	1	-
	Ecolo	EGP	G-EFA	259,745	10.06	-9.85	1	-1
	DéFl	NI	NI	75,243	2.91	-2.99	0	-
	Anticapitalist Left	NI	NI	50,758	1.97	new	0	-

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

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