Belgium: Political Developments and Data in 2024 Before and After a New ‘Mother of All Elections’
(2025) European Journal of Political Research. Political Data Yearbook — (2025)
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- In 2024, Belgium experienced its third consecutive ‘Mother of all elections’. Federal, regional and European elections were held on 9 June and local elections on 13 October. These elections profoundly transformed Belgium's political landscape: the right and center, with Reformist Movement/Mouvement réformateur (MR) and Les Engagés, took the lead in Wallonia, putting an end to Socialist domination. In Flanders, New Flemish Alliance/Nieuw-Vlaamse Alliantie (N-VA) maintained its position as the leading party despite the rise of Vlaams Belang, while the ecologists suffered a net decline in all regions. In Brussels, the Socialist Party remained in the lead, but the MR made significant gains. This led to the creation of unedited coalitions: the ‘Arizona’ federal government (N-VA, MR, Vooruit, Christian Democratic and Flemish/Christen-Democratisch en Vlaams [CD&V], Les Engagés)—yet not already formed by the end of 2024, the ‘Azur’ coalition in Wallonia (MR–Les Engagés) and a tripartite in Flanders (N-VA, Vooruit, CD&V), reflecting a profound restructuring of federal and regional executive power.
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Baudewyns, P., Vandeleene, A., De Winter, L., & Deruette, S. (2025). Belgium: Political Developments and Data in 2024 Before and After a New ‘Mother of All Elections’. European Journal of Political Research. Political Data Yearbook. Published. https://doi.org/10.1111/2047-8852.70030 (Original work published 2025)