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East Flanders (Chamber Of Representatives Constituency)
East Flanders (; ; ) is one of the 11 multi-member constituencies of the Chamber of Representatives, the lower house of the Belgian Federal Parliament, the national legislature of Belgium. The constituency was established in 2003 following the re-organisation of constituencies across Belgium along provincial lines. It is conterminous with the province of East Flanders. The constituency currently elects 20 of the 150 members of the Chamber of Representatives using the open party-list proportional representation electoral system. At the 2024 federal election the constituency had 1,182,578 registered electors. Electoral system East Flanders currently elects 20 of the 150 members of the Chamber of Representatives using the open party-list proportional representation electoral system. Seats are allocated using the D'Hondt method. Only parties that reach the 5% threshold in the constituency compete for seats. Electors may vote for the list (party) or for individual candidates, either ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Constituencies Of Belgium
Constituencies are used for elections in Belgium. Federal parliament * Antwerp (Chamber of Representatives constituency), Antwerp * Brussels (Chamber of Representatives constituency), Brussels * East Flanders (Chamber of Representatives constituency), East Flanders * Flemish Brabant (Chamber of Representatives constituency), Flemish Brabant * Hainaut (Chamber of Representatives constituency), Hainaut * Liège (Chamber of Representatives constituency), Liège * Limburg (Chamber of Representatives constituency), Limburg * Luxembourg (Chamber of Representatives constituency), Luxembourg * Namur (Chamber of Representatives constituency), Namur * Walloon Brabant (Chamber of Representatives constituency), Walloon Brabant * West Flanders (Chamber of Representatives constituency), West Flanders European parliament * Dutch-speaking electoral college * French-speaking electoral college * German-speaking electoral college Flemish parliament * Antwerp (Flemish Parliament constituency ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katja Gabriëls
Katja Gabriëls (born 13 February 1975) is a Belgian politician of the Open Flemish Liberals and Democrats. She has been a member of the Chamber of Representatives since 2014, and has served as group leader of the Open Flemish Liberals and Democrats since 2024. Since 2007, she has served as mayor of Berlare Berlare () is a municipality located in the Belgian province of East Flanders. The municipality comprises the towns of Berlare proper, Overmere and , as well as the village . The Donkmeer, a large lake and a regional tourist attraction, is locat .... References 1975 births Living people Open Flemish Liberals and Democrats politicians Members of the 54th Chamber of Representatives (Belgium) Members of the 55th Chamber of Representatives (Belgium) Members of the 56th Chamber of Representatives (Belgium) Women members of the Chamber of Representatives (Belgium) Women mayors of places in Belgium 21st-century Belgian women politicians {{Belgium-politician-stu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stefaan Van Hecke
Stefaan Van Hecke is a Belgian (Flemish) politician. He is member of the Belgian Federal Parliament (Chamber of Representatives of Belgium) for the ecological party Groen!. He was first elected in June 2007. He was re-elected in 2010, 2014, and 2019. Biography Van Hecke obtained a law degree at Ghent University. To learn more about environmental law, he also got a degree in Environmental Science at the University of Antwerp. Political career His political career started in 1990, when he joined "Agalev" (the then so-called green party in Flanders) in his home town Merelbeke. In 1992 he founded "Jong Agalev", the youngsters division of the green party, in Merelbeke. In 1996 he was elected into the provincial council. He kept that mandate until 2006. In the local and provincial elections in Merelbeke Merelbeke () is a former municipality located in the Flemish province of East Flanders, in Belgium Belgium, officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Northwestern ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francesca Van Belleghem
Francesca Van Belleghem (born 6 January 1995) is a Belgian lawyer and politician of the Vlaams Belang party who has served as a member of the Belgian Chamber of Representatives since 2024 for the East Flanders constituency. Biography Van Belleghem obtained a master's degree in law from the Catholic University of Leuven in 2018 followed by a degree taxation law in 2019. She worked as a lawyer in Aalst and Sint-Martens-Latem focusing on tax law before spending a year as a financial consultant for Deloitte in Antwerp. She joined Vlaams Belang in 2021 and worked as an assistant to Barbara Pas. She was also a policy officer for the party on law and migration. In 2024, she published a book ''Migratiestop'' with VB leader Tom Van Grieken detailing the party's immigration policies. For the 2024 Belgian federal election Federal elections were held in Belgium on 9 June 2024. The Chamber of Representatives (Belgium), Chamber of Representatives received 150 members with five-year terms ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lieve Truyman
Lieve is a Dutch language feminine name derived from the Godelieve ("dear to God"), a female 11th-century Flemish saint. The masculine given name is probably a form of Lieven. at the Meertens Institute database of given names in the Netherlands. Both names contain the Germanic element "lief-" ("dear") and ''lief'' and ''lieve'' still retain that meaning in Dutch. People with the name include: ;Feminine * (born 1950), Belgian HIV/AIDS activist * Lieve Joris (born 1953), Belgian non-fiction writer * Lieve van Kessel (born 197 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Workers' Party Of Belgium
The Workers' Party of Belgium (PTB-PVDA) is a Marxist and socialist political party in Belgium. It is the only Belgian party represented in parliament that is a fully national party, representing both Flanders and Wallonia. Having historically been a small party, the PTB-PVDA has gained momentum since the 2010s, continuously scoring better at the elections, particularly in Wallonia and working-class communities in Brussels. It has 2 MEPs that sit in The Left group alongside other socialist parties. History The Workers' Party of Belgium originated in the student movement at the end of the 1960s. Students (organized in the student union ''SVB'' – ''Studenten VakBeweging''), mainly from the Catholic University of Leuven, turned towards the working-class movement. They considered the politics of the existing Communist Party of Belgium to be revisionist, i.e. too much turned toward social-democratic politics (represented in Belgium by the Belgian Socialist Party). They were in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robin Tonniau
Robin J. E. Tonniau (born 3 May 1985) is a Belgian politician and member of the Chamber of Representatives. A member of the Workers' Party of Belgium, he has represented East Flanders since June 2024. Tonniau was born on 3 May 1985 in Ronse. He is an industrial worker and started working at the Volkswagen Vorst factory at the age of 18. He lost his job after production of Volkswagen models ceased at the factory. He held several jobs thereafter but eventually found employment at Volvo Car Gent. Tonniau joined the Workers' Party of Belgium (PVDA) in 2014. He contested the 2018 local election as the PVDA's first placed candidate in Ronse but the party failed to win any seats in the municipality. He contested the 2019 federal election as the PVDA's 13th placed candidate in East Flanders East Flanders ( ; ; ; ) is a Provinces of Belgium, province of Belgium. It borders (clockwise from the North) the Netherlands, Dutch province of Zeeland and the Belgian provinces of Antwerp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Niels Tas
Niels E. M. Tas (born 12 September 1983) is a Belgian politician and member of the Chamber of Representatives. A member of Vooruit, he has represented East Flanders since March 2025. Tas was born on 12 September 1983 in Dendermonde. He is a policy officer at The Learning Collective (). Tas has been a member of the municipal council in Dendermonde since 2007. He was leader of the Socialist Party Different (SP.A) group on the municipal council from 2009 to 2012 and from 2018 to 2024. He was a schepen (alderman) from 2013 to 2018 and from 2024. He contested the 2019 federal election as the SP.A's 3rd placed candidate in East Flanders but the party only won two seats in the constituency. He contested the 2024 federal election as Vooruit's first placed substitute candidate in East Flanders and received 3,639 preference votes. He was appointed to the Chamber of Representatives in March 2025 following the resignation of Joris Vandenbroucke Joris Vandenbroucke (born 7 December 197 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Werner Somers
Werner Somers (born 24 January 1974 in Ninove) is a Belgian lawyer and politician of the Vlaams Belang party who was elected to the Belgian Chamber of Representatives in 2024. Biography Somers was born in 1974 in Ninove. He is descended from the Seven Noble Houses of Brussels and remains a member of associations of the group. Somers graduated with a degree in the German language at the University of Ghent in 1996 followed by a master's degree in law at the Open University of the Netherlands where his thesis focused on the legal status of Taiwan. He first worked as a translator and then a lawyer at the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg. He finally graduated with a doctorate in Belgian law at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel in 2023. While at the University of Ghent, he became active in the Nationalistische Studentenvereniging (NSV) and was a volunteer for the Vlaams Blok party faction in the Chamber of Representatives. In 2000, he was elected as a municipal councilor in Ninov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lotte Peeters
Lotte Peeters (born 9 July 1993 in Sint-Niklaas) is a Belgian politician of the New Flemish Alliance party who has served as a member of the Member of the Chamber of Representatives since 2024 representing the East Flanders constituency. Biography Peeters was born in 1993. She is the granddaughter of Walter Peeters, a former parliament federal member and the Volksunie party senator. Peeters obtained a degree in literature and modern foreign languages at the University of Ghent before completing a teacher training course. She then worked as a teacher of Dutch and German at a school in Lokeren. She became active in politics after being elected as a municipal councilor for the New Flemish Alliance at the age of 19 in Hamme where she sat on the local committees for youth, culture and the environment. In the 2024 Belgian federal election Federal elections were held in Belgium on 9 June 2024. The Chamber of Representatives (Belgium), Chamber of Representatives received 150 members ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barbara Pas
Barbara Pas (born 1 March 1981) is a Belgian politician and a member of the Chamber of Representatives for Vlaams Belang. She is also the floor leader of the party in the Chamber and serves as the spokeswoman for the VB on a federal level. Pas previously served as national chairwoman of the ''Vlaams Belang Jongeren.'' Early life Pas was born in Temse, Belgium, in 1981. She studied a degree in engineering at the Catholic University of Leuven during which she was a member of the Flemish nationalist Nationalistische Studentenvereniging and the Katholiek Vlaams Hoogstudentenverbond groups. Political career Pas served as the president of the Vlaams Belang Jongeren, the youth wing of the Vlaams Belang from October 2009 to March 2012. She was elected to the Chamber of Representatives in 2007. Since December 2012, she has been national vice-president of Vlaams Belang. In April 2013, she succeeded Gerolf Annemans the VB's group leader in the Chamber of Representatives for the Flem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vooruit (political Party)
Vooruit (, Dutch for Forward) is a Flemish social democratic political party in Belgium. It was formerly known as the (Flemish) Socialist Party (1978–2001: ''Socialistische Partij'', SP; 2001–2021: ''Socialistische Partij Anders'' , , SP.A) until 21 March 2021, when its current name was adopted. The party was founded following the linguistic split of the unitary Belgian Socialist Party in 1978, which also produced the Francophone Socialist Party. The Belgian Socialist Party itself consisted of former members of the Belgian Labour Party. From December 2011 to September 2014, the party was part of the Di Rupo Government, along with its Francophone counterpart. In 2020, it re-entered federal government as part of the De Croo Government. The party has been a part of the Flemish Government several times. History 1885–1940 1940–1978 Since 1978 The party was the big winner in the 2003 election, running on the SP.A–Spirit joint list (cartel) with the so ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
