Belgium · Completed

Belgium — Parliamentary election — 1961-03-26

Name: Belgium — Parliamentary election — 1961-03-26
Start: 1961-03-26
Location: Belgium

Mar 26, 1961

Elections

Partial

Jurisdiction: Belgium
Next national election: Mar 26, 1961
Role: Parliamentary election · Legislative
Selection method: Other method
Status: Completed
Round: 1

Dataset hash: 7b22b75389bf1b443f284a24ffef158e04461304d445876f61ce5be9bfcbcb7e

Contest rounds

Round 1 · Single round

Dataset hash: 7b22b75389bf1b443f284a24ffef158e04461304d445876f61ce5be9bfcbcb7e

CompletedMar 26, 1961

Published contest rules

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  "early": true,
  "electorate": 6036165,
  "source": "ParlGov",
  "sourceElectionId": 425,
  "sourceElectionType": "parliament",
  "totalSeats": 212,
  "validVotes": 5265025,
  "votesCast": 5573840
}

Candidates

Belgische Socialistische Partij – Parti Socialiste Belge

Party

Affiliated party: Belgische Socialistische Partij – Parti Socialiste Belge

one seat

Party

Affiliated party: one seat

Kommunistische Partij – Parti Communiste

Party

Affiliated party: Kommunistische Partij – Parti Communiste

no seat

Party

Affiliated party: no seat

Parti Social Chrétien – Christelijke Volkspartij

Party

Affiliated party: Parti Social Chrétien – Christelijke Volkspartij

Liberale Partij – Parti libéral

Party

Affiliated party: Liberale Partij – Parti libéral

Listes catholiques

Party

Affiliated party: Listes catholiques

People's Union

Party

Affiliated party: People's Union

Candidate–opponent strategy evidence

A directional comparison and factual public-message frame for each sourced pair in the same contest.

Preliminary evidence scenario, not a prediction or guarantee of an electoral result. It uses public sources, makes no causal claim and uses no demographic microtargeting. Methodology

There is not enough compatible, sourced evidence to publish a pairwise analysis for this contest yet.

Election results

Belgium — Parliamentary election — 1961-03-26 · Onafh. Partij

Round 1 · Aug 15, 2024 · Preliminary

Votes: 33,174
Seats: 0
Original value: 0.63
Published precision: 2

Dataset hash: 7b22b75389bf1b443f284a24ffef158e04461304d445876f61ce5be9bfcbcb7e

Belgium — Parliamentary election — 1961-03-26 · Volksunie

Round 1 · Aug 15, 2024 · Preliminary

Votes: 182,407
Seats: 5
Original value: 3.50
Published precision: 2

Dataset hash: 7b22b75389bf1b443f284a24ffef158e04461304d445876f61ce5be9bfcbcb7e

Belgium — Parliamentary election — 1961-03-26 · KPB/PCB

Round 1 · Aug 15, 2024 · Preliminary

Votes: 162,238
Seats: 5
Original value: 3.08
Published precision: 2

Dataset hash: 7b22b75389bf1b443f284a24ffef158e04461304d445876f61ce5be9bfcbcb7e

Belgium — Parliamentary election — 1961-03-26 · PSC/CVP

Round 1 · Aug 15, 2024 · Preliminary

Votes: 2,182,642
Seats: 96
Original value: 41.50
Published precision: 2

Dataset hash: 7b22b75389bf1b443f284a24ffef158e04461304d445876f61ce5be9bfcbcb7e

Belgium — Parliamentary election — 1961-03-26 · Rassemblement national

Round 1 · Aug 15, 2024 · Preliminary

Votes: 42,450
Seats: 1
Original value: 0.81
Published precision: 2

Dataset hash: 7b22b75389bf1b443f284a24ffef158e04461304d445876f61ce5be9bfcbcb7e

Belgium — Parliamentary election — 1961-03-26 · BSP/PSB

Round 1 · Aug 15, 2024 · Preliminary

Votes: 1,933,424
Seats: 84
Original value: 36.70
Published precision: 2

Dataset hash: 7b22b75389bf1b443f284a24ffef158e04461304d445876f61ce5be9bfcbcb7e

Belgium — Parliamentary election — 1961-03-26 · PVV/PLP

Round 1 · Aug 15, 2024 · Preliminary

Votes: 649,376
Seats: 20
Original value: 12.33
Published precision: 2

Dataset hash: 7b22b75389bf1b443f284a24ffef158e04461304d445876f61ce5be9bfcbcb7e

Belgium — Parliamentary election — 1961-03-26 · Independent Socialists

Round 1 · Aug 15, 2024 · Preliminary

Votes: 46,244
Seats: 1
Original value: 0.88
Published precision: 2

Dataset hash: 7b22b75389bf1b443f284a24ffef158e04461304d445876f61ce5be9bfcbcb7e

Signal

Partial

Coverage is partial and no record is currently available for this section.

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Polls

Partial

Coverage is partial and no record is currently available for this section.

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Forecasts

Partial

Coverage is partial and no record is currently available for this section.

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Top issues

Partial

Coverage is partial and no record is currently available for this section.

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Prediction components

Partial

Coverage is partial and no record is currently available for this section.

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Media profile

Approval · Favorability · Negativity

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Media profile

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Strengths · Weaknesses · Attacks · Controversies

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Campaign signals

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Sources

1WikidataCC0-1.0 · Aug 9, 2026
2Wikimedia CommonsPER-FILE · Aug 9, 2026
3Unicode Common Locale Data RepositoryUnicode-3.0 · Aug 9, 2026