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French-speaking electoral college
European Parliament constituency
Map of the European Parliament constituencies with French-speaking electoral college highlighted in red

Location among the current constituencies

Shown within Belgium

Member stateBelgium
Created1979
MEPs8
Sources
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The French-speaking electoral college is one of three constituencies of the European Parliament in Belgium. 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.

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.[1] In the rest of the country, voters vote according to the region in which they reside.[1]

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.

Members of the European Parliament

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Representatives of the French-Speaking community
(1979–present)
Election MEP
(Party) 		MEP
(Party) 		MEP
(Party) 		MEP
(Party) 		MEP
(Party) 		MEP
(Party) 		MEP
(Party) 		MEP
(Party) 		MEP
(Party) 		MEP
(Party) 		MEP
(Party) 		MEP
(Party)
1979 André Damseaux
(PRL) 		Jean Rey
(PRL) 		Fernand Delmotte
(PS) 		Ernest Glinne
(PS) 		Anne-Marie Lizin
(PS) 		Lucien Radoux
(PS) 		Paul-Henry Gendebien
(DéFI) 		Antoinette Spaak
(DéFI) 		Fernand Herman
(CSP) 		Charles-Ferdinand Nothomb
(CSP) 		Stephen Harcourt
(CSP) 		11 seats
1984 Luc Beyer de Ryke
(PRL) 		Daniel Ducarme
(PRL) 		Raymonde Dury
(PS) 		José Happart
(PS) 		Marcel Remacle
(PS) 		François Roelants du Vivier
(Ecolo) 		Anne-Marie Lizin
(CSP) 		Michel Toussaint
(PRL)
1989 François-Xavier de Donnea
(PRL) 		Jean Defraigne
(PRL) 		Claude Delcroix
(PS) 		Paul Lannoye
(Ecolo) 		Gérard Deprez
(CSP) 		Elio Di Rupo
(PS) 		Brigitte Ernst de la Graete
(Ecolo)
1991 Anne André-Léonard
(PRL)
1994 Philippe Monfils
(PRL) 		Claude Desama
(PS) 		Antoinette Spaak
(DéFI) 		Daniel Féret
(FN) 		10 seats
1998 Claude Delcroix
(PS)
1999 Daniel Ducarme
(PRL) 		Frédérique Ries
(PRL) 		Jean-Maurice Dehousse
(PS) 		Brigitte Ernst de la Graete
(Ecolo) 		Freddy Thielemans
(PS) 		Pierre Jonckheer
(Ecolo) 		Gérard Deprez
(MCC) 		Michel Hansenne
(CSP)
2001 Olga Zrihen
(PS) 		Véronique De Keyser
(PS)
2003 Anne André-Léonard
(PRL)
2004 Jacqueline Rousseaux
(PRL)
2004 Frédérique Ries
(MR) 		Gérard Deprez
(MR) 		Philippe Busquin
(PS) 		Marc Tarabella
(PS) 		Alain Hutchinson
(PS) 		Raymond Langendries
(CDH) 		Antoine Duquesne
(MR) 		9 seats
2007 Giovanna Corda
(PS)
2009 Louis Michel
(MR) 		Frédéric Daerden
(PS) 		Marc Tarabella
(PS) 		Philippe Lamberts
(Ecolo) 		Isabelle Durant
(Ecolo) 		Anne Delvaux
(CDH) 		8 seats
2014 Marie Arena
(PS) 		Hugues Bayet
(PS) 		Gérard Deprez
(MR) 		Claude Rolin
(CDH)
2019 Olivier Chastel
(MR) 		Saskia Bricmont
(Ecolo) 		Marc Botenga
(PTB) 		Benoît Lutgen
(CDH)
2024 Sophie Wilmès
(MR) 		Elio Di Rupo
(PS) 		Estelle Ceulemans
(PS) 		Benoît Cassartt
(MR) 		Yvan Verougstraete
(LE)
Party EU party EP group Votes % Change Seats Change
  Reformist Movement ALDE RE 900,413 34.88 +15.59 3 +1
  Socialist Party PES S&D 529,697 20.52 -6.17 2 -
  Workers' Party of Belgium ELA Left 397,055 15.38 +1.21 1 -
  Les Engagés ALDE RE 368,338 14.28 new 1 -
  Ecolo EGP G-EFA 259,745 10.06 -9.85 1 -1
  DéFl NI NI 75,243 2.91 -2.99 0 -
  Anticapitalist Left NI NI 50,758 1.97 new 0 -
Party Affiliation Votes % Change Seats Change
  Socialist Party (PS) PES 651,157 26.69 Decrease 2.60 2 Decrease 1
  Ecolo EGP 485,655 19.91 Increase 8.22 2 Increase 1
  Reformist Movement (MR) ELDR 470,654 19.29 Decrease 7.81 2 Decrease 1
  Workers' Party of Belgium (PTB) None 355,883 14.59 Increase 9.11 1 Increase 1
  Humanist Democratic Centre (CDH) EPP 218,078 8.94 Decrease 2.42 1 Steady
  DéFI None 144,555 5.92 Increase 2.54 0 Steady
  People's Party (PP) None 113,793 4.66 Decrease 1.32 0 Steady
Total 2,439,775 100 – 8 Steady
Party Affiliation Votes % Change Seats Change
  Socialist Party (PS) PES 714,645 29.29 Increase 0.19 3 Steady
  Reformist Movement (MR) ELDR 661,332 27.10 Increase 1.05 3 Increase 1
  Ecolo EGP 285,196 11.69 Decrease 11.19 1 Decrease 1
  Humanist Democratic Centre (CDH) EPP 277,246 11.36 Decrease 1.98 1 Steady
  People's Party (PP) ADDE 145,909 5.98 Increase 5.98 0 Steady
  Workers' Party of Belgium (PTB) None 133,811 5.48 Increase 4.32 0 Steady
  Francophone Democratic Federalists (FDF) None 82,540 3.38 Increase 3.38 0 Steady
  Debout Les Belges! (DLB!) None 72,671 2.98 Increase 2.98 0 Steady
  La Droite None 38,813 1.59 Increase 1.59 0 Steady
  Vega None 15,208 0.62 Increase 0.62 0 Steady
  Stand Up USE None 7,970 0.33 Increase 0.33 0 Steady
  MG None 4,705 0.19 Increase 0.19 0 Steady
Total 2,440,046 100 – 8 Steady
Party Affiliation Votes % Change Seats Change
  Socialist Party (PS) PES 714,947 29.10 Decrease 6.99 3 Decrease 1
  Reformist Movement (MR) ELDR 640,092 26.05 Decrease 1.53 2 Decrease 1
  Ecolo EGP 562,081 22.88 Increase 13.03 2 Increase 1
  Humanist Democratic Centre (CDH) EPP 327,824 13.34 Decrease 1.80 1 0
  National Front (FN) None 87,706 3.57 Decrease 3.88 0 0
  Workers' Party of Belgium+ (PTB) None 28,483 1.16 Increase 0.35 0 0
  Others 96,045 3.91 – 0 –
Total 2,457,178 100 – 8 Decrease 1
Party Votes % Change Seats
Socialist Party (PS) 878,577 36.09 +10.31 4 +1
Reformist Movement (MR) 671,422 27.58 +0.59 3 0
Democratic Humanist Centre (CDH) 368,753 15.15 +1.84 1 +1
Ecologists (Ecolo) 239,687 9.84 −12.86 1 −2
National Front (FN) 181,351 7.45 +3.35 0 0
New Belgian Front (FNB) 26,775 1.1 +0.03 0 0
Rassemblement Wallonie-France (RWF) 23,090 0.95 N/A 0
CDF 19,718 0.81 N/A 0
Workers' Party of Belgium (PTB+) 19,645 0.81 N/A 0
Movement for a Socialist Alternative (MAS) 5,675 0.23 N/A 0
Total 2,434,693     9
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