The 2024 European Parliament election in Belgium was held on 9 June 2024 in the three Belgian constituencies (the

Dutch-speaking electoral college Dutch ( ) is a West Germanic language of the Indo-European language family, spoken by about 25 million people as a first language and 5 million as a second language and is the third most spoken Germanic language. In Europe, Dutch is the nat ...

, the

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 ...

and the

German-speaking electoral college The German-speaking electoral college is one of three constituencies of the European Parliament in Belgium. It elects just one MEP for East Belgium, making it the only such constituency, effectively making it first past the post between partie ...

) to elect the Belgian delegation to the European Parliament. It is part of the

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and the

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. It was the tenth European Parliament election held in Belgium, and the first to take place after

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Electoral system

Compared to last election, Belgium is entitled to one more MEP assigned in 2023 after a pre-election assessment of the Parliament composition based on the most recent population figures. Each constituency elects its members through

semi-open list Open list describes any variant of party-list proportional representation where voters have at least some influence on the order in which a party's candidates are elected. This is as opposed to closed list, in which party lists are in a predeter ...

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with seats allocated through

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and no electoral threshold. The 22 Belgian seats are divided among the three constituencies as follows: * 13 MEPs to be elected by the

(one more than in 2019) * 8 MEPs to be elected by the

* 1 MEP to be elected by the

Both Belgian and other non-Belgian EU citizens residing in the country are entitled to vote in the European elections in Belgium. No registration is needed for Belgian citizens, while other EU citizens residing in Belgium need to register in the municipality of their residence no later than 31 March 2024. Belgian citizens residing abroad are required to register by 29 February 2024 to be able to vote from the country where they reside. This will be the first election in Belgium where people from the age of 16 have the right to vote. People aged 16 and above are obligated to vote. The electoral roll will be closed on 1 April 2024. In order to participate in the election, proposed candidate lists must either be signed by at least five members of the

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(House or Senate) or collect supporting signatures. For the latter option, 5000 signatures each are required for the Dutch and French-speaking electoral college and 200 for the German electoral college.

Outgoing delegation

Retiring incumbents

Lead candidates

Opinion polls

Results

Elected members

Groups

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Notes

References

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European Parliament elections in Belgium