An election was held on 26 May 2019 in the three Belgian constituencies (the Dutch-speaking electoral college, the French-speaking electoral college and the German-speaking electoral college) to elect the Belgian delegation to the European Parliament. It was part of the 2019 European Parliament election.

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2019 European Parliament election in Belgium

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All 21 Belgian seats to the European Parliament
Turnout	88.47%
First party Second party Third party   Leader Geert Bourgeois Gerolf Annemans Guy Verhofstadt Party N-VA VB Open Vld Alliance ECR EAPN ALDE Last election 4 seats, 16.79% 1 seat, 4.26% 3 seats, 12.84% Seats won 3 3 2 Seat change 1 2 1 Popular vote 954,048 811,169 678,051 Percentage 14.17% 12.05% 10.07% Swing 2.62% 7.79% 2.77%   Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party   Leader Paul Magnette Kris Peeters Marc Botenga Party PS CD&V PVDA-PTB Alliance PES EPP GUE/NGL Last election 3 seats, 10.68% 2 seats, 12.57% 0 seats, 3.51% Seats won 2 2 1 Seat change 1 0 1 Popular vote 655,812 617,651 566,274 Percentage 9.74% 9.17% 8.42% Swing 1.03% 3.39% 4.91%   Seventh party Eighth party Ninth party   Leader Petra De Sutter Philippe Lamberts Olivier Chastel Party Groen Ecolo MR Alliance Green Green ALDE Last election 1 seat, 6.69% 1 seat, 4.26% 3 seats, 9.88% Seats won 1 2 2 Seat change 0 1 1 Popular vote 525,908 492,330 475,338 Percentage 7.81% 7.31% 7.06% Swing 1.13% 2.95% 2.92%

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A royal order of 15 June 2018 fixed the date of the European Parliament election in Belgium, following an agreement at European level.^[1] Per the Belgian Constitution, the Belgian regional elections, and additionally the Belgian federal election because no snap election occurred, were automatically held on the same day.

Marianne Thyssen, who was re-elected Member of the European Parliament in 2014 as lijsttrekker for CD&V and who subsequently became European Commissioner, announced in July 2018 that she would quit politics in 2019.^[2]

As the reapportionment after Brexit did not impact the number of seats allocated to Belgium, 21 MEPs were elected in Belgium, as in the 2014 election. One of them is by law allocated to the German-speaking electoral college and the remaining ones are allocated to the Dutch-speaking and to the French-speaking electoral college in accordance with a population formula, giving them respectively twelve and eight seats, as in 2014.^[3]

Voters could only vote on the lists depending on the language area they live in. This means that in the bilingual arrondissement of Brussels-Capital, voters could choose whether to vote for the Dutch-speaking or for the French-speaking electoral college. There was an exception to this rule for the six municipalities with language facilities in the Brussels Periphery, whose inhabitants could also opt to vote for French-speaking lists despite being in the Dutch language area.

Seats were allocated according to the D'Hondt method in each of the three electoral colleges; however, the German-speaking electoral college de facto used a first-past-the-post system, since it elected only one MEP. The electoral threshold was 5%, which was based on the vote share per electoral college rather than nationally.

All Belgian citizens aged 18 or over and residing in Belgium were obligated to participate in the election.

Other EU citizens residing in Belgium as well as Belgians living in another EU member state had the right to vote on Belgian lists in European Parliament elections. The law of 17 November 2016 extended this right to Belgians living in a non-EU member state, which was already possible for federal elections.

• Elections 2019 - Federal Public Service Interior