General elections were held in Belgium on 16 November 1919.^[1] Although the Belgian Labour Party received the most votes in the Chamber of Representatives elections, the Catholic Party remained the largest party in both the Chamber and the Senate.^[2] Voter turnout was 88.5% in the Chamber elections.^[3]

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1919 Belgian general election

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All 186 seats in the Chamber of Representatives All 93 seats in the Senate

Party Leader % Seats Chamber of Representatives Labour Joseph Van Roosbroeck 36.62 70 Catholic Léon Delacroix 35.19 70 Liberal François Prosper Hanrez 17.65 34 Frontpartij 3.45 5 Catholic dissidents 2.05 3 Middle Class 1.13 1 Combatants 1.08 2 National Renaissance 1.05 1 Senate Catholic Léon Delacroix 43.30 43 Liberal François Prosper Hanrez 30.98 30 Labour Joseph Van Roosbroeck 24.53 20 This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below. Government before Government after election Delacroix I National Unity (Catholic-Lab-Lib) Delacroix II National Unity (Catholic-Lab-Lib)

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They were the first elections after the First World War, and the first with universal single-vote suffrage (for men), a change that was sought by and benefited the Belgian Labour Party. The voting age was also lowered from 25 to 21, and the system of proportional representation was modified to use apparentment (combining votes of different arrondissements within a province).

The distribution of seats among the electoral districts was as follows:^[4][5]