1999 Luxembourg general election

1999 Luxembourg general election

13 June 1999

Party Leader % Seats ± CSV 29.73 19 LSAP 23.74 13 DP 21.59 15 The Greens (Luxembourg) 10.37 5 Alternative Democratic Reform Party 9.10 7 The Left (Luxembourg) 3.76 1

This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.

File:Luxembourg legislative election 1999 communes map.png Results by commune

Prime Minister before Prime Minister after Jean-Claude Juncker CSV Jean-Claude Juncker CSV

General elections were held in Luxembourg on 13 June 1999, alongside European Parliament elections. The Christian Social People's Party remained the largest party, winning 19 of the 60 seats in the Chamber of Deputies. It formed a coalition government with the Democratic Party.

Candidates

List #	Party		Running in				Existing seats
			Centre	Est	Nord	Sud
1		The Left					0
2		Luxembourg Socialist Workers' Party (LSAP)					17
3		Democratic Party (DP)					12
4		Action Committee for Democracy and Pensions Justice					5
5		Green and Liberal Alliance (GaL)					0
6		Christian Social People's Party (CSV)					21
7		The Greens					5
8		The Taxpayer					0
9		Party of the Third Age					0

Results

By locality

File:Luxembourg legislative election 1999 communes map.png

The CSV (orange) won most of the countryside, whilst the LSAP (red) won the major towns in the Red Lands and the DP (light blue) won Luxembourg City and its eastern suburbs.

The CSV won pluralities in three of the four circonscriptions, falling behind the Democratic Party in Centre (around Luxembourg City) but beating the LSAP in its core Sud constituency. Much of the realignment nationally can be explained by a weakening of the LSAP's position in Sud, which has the most seats and where the LSAP's share of the vote fell from 33.5% to 29.8%, to the advantage of both the CSV and the DP.

	CSV	DP	LSAP	ADR	Greens	The Left	GaL	Taxpayer	Pv3A
Centre	28.0%	30.1%	17.2%	9.5%	9.7%	2.8%	1.4%	1.3%	-
Est	32.4%	24.6%	18.0%	13.6%	8.6%	1.6%	1.1%	-	-
Nord	31.3%	24.3%	16.5%	16.7%	9.2%	1.4%	0.8%	-	-
Sud	30.3%	15.4%	29.8%	9.5%	8.7%	5.0%	0.9%	-	0.4%

The CSV won pluralities across almost all of the country, winning more votes than any other party in 86 of the country's (then) 118 communes. The LSAP won pluralities in 14 communes, mostly in the Red Lands in the south. The DP won 18 communes, particularly in its heartland of Luxembourg City and the surrounding communes.