Luxembourgian legislative election, 2009

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Legislative elections were held in Luxembourg on 7 June 2009, together with the 2009 election to the European Parliament. All sixty members of the Chamber of Deputies were elected for five years. The polls were topped by the Christian Social People's Party, which built upon its already high number of seats to achieve a commanding victory, with the highest vote share and number of seats of any party since 1954.

Contents 1 Parties 2 Results 2.1 Overall results 2.2 Results by locality 3 Aftermath 4 Footnotes

[edit] Parties

Seven parties ran candidates in all four circonscriptions, of which, five were already represented in the Chamber of Deputies: the Christian Social People's Party (CSV), the Luxembourg Socialist Workers' Party (LSAP), the Democratic Party (DP), the Greens, and the Alternative Democratic Reform Party (ADR). Two parties that were not then represented also ran: The Left^[1] and the Communist Party (KPL). In addition, the Citizens' List, which was headed by current independent deputy Aly Jaerling, ran in two constituencies.

List #	Party		Running in				Seats
			Centre	Est	Nord	Sud	2004	Pre-election
1		Communist Party (KPL)					0	0
2		Greens					7	7
3		Alternative Democratic Reform Party (ADR)					5	4[2]
4		Luxembourg Socialist Workers' Party (LSAP)					14	14
5		Democratic Party (DP)					10	10
6		The Left					0	0
7		Christian Social People's Party (CSV)					24	24
8		Citizens' List					0	1[2]

[edit] Results

[edit] Overall results

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Summary of the results of the 7 June 2009 election to Luxembourg's Chamber of Deputies

Party		%	Change	Seats	Change
	Christian Social People's Party (CSV)	38.0	+1.9	26	+2
	Luxembourg Socialist Workers' Party (LSAP)	21.6	−1.8	13	−1
	Democratic Party (DP)	15.0	−1.1	9	−1
	The Greens	11.7	+0.1	7	±0
	Alternative Democratic Reform Party (ADR)	8.1	−1.8	4	−1
	The Left	3.3	+1.4	1	+1
	Communist Party (KPL)	1.5	+0.6	0	—
	Citizens' List	0.8	N/A	0	N/A
Total		100.0	—	60	—
Source: Centre Informatique de l'État

Under Luxembourg's electoral system the country is divided into four multi-member constituencies: Centre, Est, Nord, and Sud. Voters may vote for as many candidates as the region elects Deputies. The number of voters cast for each party therefore cannot be stated.

[edit] Results by locality

	CSV	LSAP	DP	Greens	ADR	Left	KPL	BL
Centre	38.6%	17.8%	19.4%	13.2%	6.3%	3.5%	1.1%	0.0%
Est	41.5%	16.2%	15.4%	14.2%	9.5%	2.3%	1.0%	0.0%
Nord	39.6%	17.4%	18.2%	10.8%	10.3%	2.0%	1.0%	0.8%
Sud	35.6%	28.2%	10.1%	10.2%	7.9%	4.1%	2.2%	1.7%

[edit] Aftermath

The CSV's large margin of victory guaranteed that it would form the government once again, with Jean-Claude Juncker appointed as formateur and likely to rename as Prime Minister. Before the election, Juncker, Europe's longest-serving head of government, had told his party that he intended to step down as Minister for Finances, to be replaced by Luc Frieden.^[3] This brought into question his chairmanship of the Europe-wide Eurogroup, which he had chaired since 2005. However, he has since stated that he would remain in charge of monetary policy and relations with the European Central Bank.^[4]

The CSV is in a strong enough position to form a coalition with any one of three parties: LSAP (partner in the Juncker-Asselborn Ministry), the DP (partner in the Juncker-Polfer Ministry), and the Greens (who have never entered the government). However, the DP and Greens have both ruled out the possibility of a coalition with the CSV, leaving only the previous coalition partners, LSAP, in the running.^[5]

[edit] Footnotes

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