French-Speaking Electoral College

It currently elects 8 MEPs using the D'Hondt method of party-list proportional representation. It elected 9 MEPs until the 2007 accession of Bulgaria and Romania.

French-speaking electoral college
European Parliament constituency
Location among the current constituencies
Shown within Belgium
Member state	Belgium
Created	1979
MEPs	8
Sources
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Prior to the 1999 elections, electors in the German-speaking community were voting in the French-speaking electoral college, along with the rest of the Walloon region where they are located; they vote now in their own German-speaking electoral college.

The constituency corresponds to the French Community of Belgium. In officially bilingual Brussels, electors can choose between lists of this electoral college or those of the Dutch-speaking electoral college.

Prior to the 2011–2012 state reform, electors could choose between both lists not only in Brussels, but in an area encompassing unilingually Dutch territory, Brussels-Halle-Vilvoorde. Some towns in the officially Dutch-speaking Brussels Periphery still have this option however.

2019–2024

• Marie Arena, PS
• Marc Botenga, PTB
• Saskia Bricmont, Ecolo
• Olivier Chastel, MR
• Philippe Lamberts, Ecolo
• Benoît Lutgen, CDH
• Frédérique Ries, MR
• Marc Tarabella, PS

2014–2019

• Marie Arena, PS
• Hugues Bayet, PS
• Gérard Deprez, MR
• Philippe Lamberts, Ecolo
• Louis Michel, MR
• Frédérique Ries, MR
• Claude Rolin, CDH
• Marc Tarabella, PS

2009–2014

• Frédéric Daerden, PS
• Véronique de Keyser, PS
• Anne Delvaux, CDH
• Isabelle Durant, Ecolo
• Philippe Lamberts, Ecolo
• Louis Michel, MR
• Frédérique Ries, MR
• Marc Tarabella, PS

2004–2009

• Philippe Busquin, PS
• Gerard Deprez, MR
• Antoine Duquesne, MR
• Alain Hutchinson, PS
• Pierre Jonckheer, Ecolo
• Véronique de Keyser, PS
• Joëlle Milquet, CDH
• Frédérique Ries, MR
• Marc Tarabella, PS

2019

Party		Affiliation	Votes	%	Change	Seats	Change
	Socialist Party (PS)	PES	651,157	26.69	2.60	2	1
	Ecolo	EGP	485,655	19.91	8.22	2	1
	Reformist Movement (MR)	ELDR	470,654	19.29	7.81	2	1
	Workers Party of Belgium (PTB)	None	355,883	14.59	9.11	1	1
	Humanist Democratic Centre (CDH)	EPP	218,078	8.94	2.42	1
	DéFI	None	144,555	5.92	2.54	0
	People's Party (PP)	None	113,793	4.66	1.32	0
Total			2,439,775	100	–	8

2014

Party		Affiliation	Votes	%	Change	Seats	Change
	Socialist Party (PS)	PES	714,645	29.29	0.19	3
	Reformist Movement (MR)	ELDR	661,332	27.10	1.05	3	1
	Ecolo	EGP	285,196	11.69	11.19	1	1
	Humanist Democratic Centre (CDH)	EPP	277,246	11.36	1.98	1
	People's Party (PP)	ADDE	145,909	5.98	5.98	0
	Workers Party of Belgium (PTB)	None	133,811	5.48	4.32	0
	Francophone Democratic Federalists (FDF)	None	82,540	3.38	3.38	0
	Debout Les Belges! (DLB!)	None	72,671	2.98	2.98	0
	La Droite	None	38,813	1.59	1.59	0
	Vega	None	15,208	0.62	0.62	0
	Stand Up USE	None	7,970	0.33	0.33	0
	MG	None	4,705	0.19	0.19	0
Total			2,440,046	100	–	8

2009

Party		Affiliation	Votes	%	Change	Seats	Change
	Socialist Party (PS)	PES	714,947	29.10	6.99	3	1
	Reformist Movement (MR)	ELDR	640,092	26.05	1.53	2	1
	Ecolo	EGP	562,081	22.88	13.03	2	1
	Humanist Democratic Centre (CDH)	EPP	327,824	13.34	1.80	1	0
	National Front (FN)	None	87,706	3.57	3.88	0	0
	Workers Party of Belgium+ (PTB)	None	28,483	1.16	0.35	0	0
	Others		96,045	3.91	–	0	–
Total			2,457,178	100	–	8	1

2004