General elections were held in

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on 31 March 1968. The Christian Social Party remained the largest party. Voter turnout was 90.0%.Nohlen & Stöver, p291 Elections for the nine

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councils were also held. The snap elections were called after the government, a coalition of the Christian Social Party and the liberal Party for Freedom and Progress led by Christian Democrat

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, fell due to the

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. The linguistic crisis would trigger the split of the dominant Christian Social Party into a Flemish and French-speaking party. The two other main parties would follow suit. The crisis also caused the rise of small linguistic, federalist parties, such as the People's Union on the Flemish side and the Democratic Front of the Francophones and

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Results

Chamber of Deputies

Senate

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