2004 Luxembourg general election

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.

2004 Luxembourg general election

13 June 2004
All 60 seats in the Chamber of Deputies 31 seats were needed for a majority
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

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

Party		Votes	%^[a]	Seats	+/–
	Christian Social People's Party	1,103,825	36.1	24	+5
	Luxembourg Socialist Workers' Party	784,048	23.4	14	+1
	Democratic Party	460,601	16.1	10	–5
	The Greens	355,895	11.6	7	+2
	Action Committee for Democracy and Pensions Justice	278,792	10.0	5	–2
	The Left	62,071	1.9	0	–1
	Communist Party of Luxembourg	35,524	0.9	0	New
	Free Party	1,925	0.1	0	New
Invalid/blank votes		11,182	–	–	–
Total		200,092	100	60	0
Registered voters/turnout		217,683	91.9	–	–
Source: Nohlen & Stöver

Popular Vote CSV   36.11% LSAP   23.37% DP   16.05% Déi Gréng   11.58% ADR   9.95% Déi Lénk   1.90% KPL   0.92% FPL   0.12%

Seats CSV   40.00% LSAP   23.33% DP   16.67% Déi Gréng   11.67% ADR   8.33%

^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%):

	CSV	LSAP	DP	Greens	ADR	The Left	KPL	FPL
Centre	35.5%	18.8%	21.3%	13.6%	7.9%	2.0%	0.9%	0.0%
Est	38.6%	16.5%	19.1%	12.1%	12.3%	1.3%	0.0%	0.0%
Nord	36.3%	15.8%	20.2%	10.9%	14.7%	1.3%	0.0%	0.7%
Sud	35.6%	32.2%	9.5%	10.2%	8.4%	2.3%	1.7%	0.0%

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

1. Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p1244 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7
2. Nohlen & Stöver, p1254
3. "Répartition des suffrages en % du total des voix exprimés par parti et par commune 1994-2004" (in French). Statec. 15 October 2004. Retrieved 2008-03-01.