Luxembourg general election, 2004

Luxembourg general election, 2004

13 June 2004

All 60 seats in the Chamber of Deputies 31 seats were needed for a majority   First party Second party Third party   Leader Jean-Claude Juncker Jean Asselborn Lydie Polfer Party CSV LSAP DP Last election 19 seats, 30.1% 13 seats, 22.3% 15 seats, 22.4% Seats won 24 14 10 Seat change 5 1 5 Popular vote 1,103,825 784,048 460,601 Percentage 36.1% 23.4% 16.1% Swing 6.0% 1.0% 6.2%

Results:   CSV   LSAP   DP

Prime Minister before election Jean-Claude Juncker CSV Prime Minister-designate Jean-Claude Juncker CSV

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General elections were held in Luxembourg on 13 June 2004,^[1] alongside European Parliament elections. The ruling Christian Social People's Party (CSV) of Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker won the election, increasing its number of seats to its highest since before 1989 and its share of the vote to levels not seen since the 1959 election.

As expected, the CSV won a plurality of seats, adding 5 new deputies, and continued as the majority partner in the coalition government. However, the junior partner changed from the liberal Democratic Party (DP), which lost 5 seats, to the Luxembourg Socialist Workers' Party (LSAP), which gained one seat. the Greens also slightly increased their representation, whilst the Alternative Democratic Reform Party (ADR) lost ground.

The election coincided with the 2004 European Parliament election.

Candidates

List #	Party		Running in				Existing seats
			Centre	Est	Nord	Sud
1		Alternative Democratic Reform Party (ADR)					7
2		Democratic Party (DP)					15
3		Luxembourg Socialist Workers' Party (LSAP)					13
4		The Greens					5
5		Christian Social People's Party (CSV)					19
6		The Left					1
7		Communist Party (KPL)					0
8		Free Party (FPL)					0

Results

^a The percentage of votes is not related to the number of votes in the table, as voters could cast more votes in some constituencies than others, and is instead calculated based on the proportion of votes received in each constituency.^[2]

By locality

The CSV (orange) won pluralities in almost all communes in the country, limiting the success of the LSAP (red) and DP (light blue).

The CSV won pluralities in all four districts; in the previous election, the Democratic Party had won a plurality in Centre. However, the CSV won a better-than-average increase in their vote share in Luxembourg City (of 7.4%) and Centre generally (7.5%), wiping out the DP's advantage and winning 2 deputies in that circonscription alone. The CSV's vote remaining roughly constant across all circonscriptions (in all cases between 35.5% and 38.6%):

The CSV won pluralities across almost all of the country, winning more votes than any other party in 111 of the country's (then) 118 communes. The LSAP won pluralities in five communes in the industrial Red Lands: Differdange, Dudelange, Kayl, Rumelange, Schifflange. The DP won the northern communes of Schieren and Préizerdaul.^[3]

References

Elections and referendums in Luxembourg
General elections	1848 (Apr) 1848 (Sep) 1915 1918 1919 1922* 1925 1928* 1931* 1934* 1937* 1945 1948* 1951* 1954 1959 1964 1968 1974 1979 1984 1989 1994 1999 2004 2009 2013
Communal elections	1981 1987 1993 1999 2005 2011 2017
European elections	1979 1984 1989 1994 1999 2004 2009 2014
Referendums	1919 1937 2005 2015
* Partial elections.