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1939 Belgian general election
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2 April 1939
1946 →
Chamber of Representatives
All 202 seats in the Chamber of Representatives
Party
Leader
%
Seats
+/–
PC–KVV
Hubert Pierlot
32.71
73
+12
Labour
Paul-Henri Spaak
30.19
64
−6
Liberal
Émile Coulonvaux
17.19
33
+10
VNV
Staf De Clercq
8.28
17
+1
PVDA-PTB
Collective leadership
5.36
9
0
Rexist
Léon Degrelle
4.44
4
−17
Technocrat
Leo Frenssen
1
New
Veterans
1
New
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
Senate
All 101 seats in the Senate
Party
Leader
%
Seats
+/–
Catholic
Hubert Pierlot
30.71
35
+1
Labour
Paul-Henri Spaak
30.64
35
−4
Liberal
Émile Coulonvaux
17.57
16
+5
VNV
Staf De Clercq
7.76
8
+3
PVDA-PTB
Collective leadership
5.04
3
−1
Rexist
Léon Degrelle
4.13
1
−7
KVV
Alfons Verbist
2.75
3
New
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
Government before
Government after election
Spaak I National Unity (Lab–Catholic–Lib)
Pierlot I Catholic–Lab
General elections were held in Belgium on 2 April 1939.[1] The result was a victory for the Catholic Party, which won 67 of the 202 seats in the Chamber of Representatives. Voter turnout was 93.3%.[2]
On 22 February 1939, the Pierlot Government succeeded the Spaak Government. The Spaak Government was in a political crisis caused by, among other things, the Martens Affair. As the Pierlot Government fell as well and the ministers failed to form a stable government, King Leopold III insisted on a dissolution of parliament, but the council of ministers refused due to fear of electoral losses. It was not Prime Minister Pierlot, but the Minister of the Interior who provided the required contresignant of the royal order of 6 March 1939 which dissolved the Chambers and triggered the snap elections.
After the election, Pierlot continued as Prime Minister. The elections were the last before World War II.
^Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p289 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7
^Nohlen & Stöver, p290
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