The Belgian provincial, municipal and district elections of 2024 will take place on Sunday 13 October 2024.
They take place four months after the simultaneous European, federal and regional elections.
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All 10 provincial councils All 565 municipal councils All 8 directly elected OCMW/CPAS councils All 10 Antwerp city district councils | ||
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The local elections are organised by the respective regions:
In the municipalities with language facilities of Voeren, Comines-Warneton and the 6 of the Brussels Periphery, the aldermen and members of the OCMW/CPAS council are directly elected.
As reflected in the number of municipalities above, some municipalities are merging. One of them, Borsbeek, merged with the city of Antwerp, becoming its tenth district. In Wallonia, only Bastogne and Bertogne are merging. The mergers take effect following the 2024 elections, when the councils of the newly formed entities are elected.
The Flemish decree of 16 July 2021 reformed the local electoral process, abolishing compulsory voting in Flemish local elections. Voting remains obligatory in Brussels and Walloon local elections.
The decree also changed several election rules for Flemish municipal elections:
This incentivises forming larger, joint lists instead of smaller, separate ones.
Two-term mayor Bart De Wever (N-VA) is candidate to continue governing the most populous city, Antwerp.
Open Vld (with mayor Mathias De Clercq) and Groen (with first alderman Filip Watteeuw) are the two main political parties since the 2018 elections. The current governing coalition is composed of Vooruit-Groen (a joint list in 2018), Open Vld and CD&V. Open Vld and Vooruit will now form a joint "Voor Gent" list, opposing a Groen list.
Bart Somers, mayor of Mechelen since 2001, became Flemish minister in 2019 but returned as mayor in November 2023. He will head the "Voor Mechelen" list, composed of the Open Vld, Groen and M+ governing coalition.
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