2010 Belgian federal election

2010 Belgian federal election

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Chamber of Representatives
All 150 seats in the Chamber of Representatives 76 seats needed for a majority
Turnout	89.2%
Party Leader Vote % Seats +/– N-VA Bart De Wever 17.40 27 +22 PS Elio Di Rupo 13.70 26 +6 CD&V Marianne Thyssen 10.85 17 −8 MR Didier Reynders 9.28 18 −5 sp.a Caroline Gennez 9.24 13 −1 Open Vld Alexander De Croo 8.64 13 −5 VB Bruno Valkeniers 7.76 12 −5 cdH Benoît Lutgen 5.52 9 −1 Ecolo Jean-Michel Javaux Sarah Turine 4.80 8 0 Groen Wouter Van Besien 4.38 5 +1 LDD Jean-Marie Dedecker 3.74 1 −4 PP Mischaël Modrikamen 1.29 1 New This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
Senate
40 of 71 seats in the Senate
Party Leader Vote % Seats +/– N-VA Bart De Wever 19.61 9 +8 PS Elio Di Rupo 13.62 7 +3 CD&V Marianne Thyssen 9.99 4 −4 sp.a Caroline Gennez 9.48 4 0 MR Didier Reynders 9.27 4 −2 Open Vld Alexander De Croo 8.24 4 −1 VB Bruno Valkeniers 7.60 3 −2 Ecolo Jean-Michel Javaux Sarah Turine 5.46 2 0 cdH Benoît Lutgen 5.13 2 0 Groen Wouter Van Besien 3.89 1 0 This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
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Chamber of Representatives results by electoral district Senate direct election results by electoral district Federal Government before Federal Government after Leterme II Government Di Rupo Government

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Federal elections were held in Belgium on 13 June 2010,^[1] during the midst of the 2007-11 Belgian political crisis. After the fall of the previous Leterme II Government over the withdrawal of Open Flemish Liberals and Democrats (Open VLD) from the government the King dissolved the legislature and called new elections. The New Flemish Alliance, led by Bart De Wever, emerged as the plurality party with 27 seats, just one more than the francophone Socialist Party, led by Elio Di Rupo, which was the largest party in the Wallonia region and Brussels.^[2] It took a world record 541 days until a government was formed, resulting in a government led by Di Rupo.^[3]

Yves Leterme served as the caretaker prime minister of the country for the period that it had no official government.^[4]