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

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All 60 seats in the Chamber of Deputies 31 seats needed for a majority

Party Leader Vote % Seats +/– CSV Jean-Claude Juncker 35.81 24 +5 LSAP Jean Asselborn 25.43 14 +1 DP Lydie Polfer 14.94 10 −5 Greens François Bausch 11.54 7 +2 ADR Robert Mehlen 9.04 5 −2 This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below. Results by commune Prime Minister before Prime Minister after Jean-Claude Juncker CSV 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	%	Seats	+/–
	Christian Social People's Party	1,103,825	35.81	24	5
	Luxembourg Socialist Workers' Party	784,048	25.43	14	+1
	Democratic Party	460,601	14.94	10	–5
	The Greens	355,895	11.54	7	+2
	Action Committee for Democracy and Pensions Justice	278,792	9.04	5	–2
	The Left	62,071	2.01	0	–1
	Communist Party of Luxembourg	35,524	1.15	0	New
	Free Party of Luxembourg	1,925	0.06	0	New
Total		3,082,681	100.00	60	0
Valid votes		188,910	94.41
Invalid/blank votes		11,182	5.59
Total votes		200,092	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		217,683	91.92
Source: Nohlen & Stöver

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.^[2]

References

1. Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p1244 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7
2. "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.