Partial general elections were held in

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on Tuesday 13 June 1837 in which 51 of the 102 seats in the Chamber of Representatives were elected.Sternberger, D, Vogel, B & Nohlen, D (1969) ''Die Wahl der Parlamente: Band I: Europa - Erster Halbband'', p105 Voter turnout was 56.0%, although only 24,526 people were eligible to vote. Under the alternating system, Chamber elections were only held in five out of the nine provinces:

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, Brabant,

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and

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. The Senate was not up for election. This was the last election in which Luxembourg Province included the area of the modern

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; in 1839, under the stipulations of the Treaty of London, a portion of the province's constituency of

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, along with the full constituencies of Luxembourg (roughly equal to modern

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) and

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, became parts of the independent Grand Duchy of Luxembourg.

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