{
  "data": {
    "id": "belgium-legislative-2029",
    "country": "BE",
    "country_name": "Belgium",
    "date": "2029-06-10",
    "date_status": "tentative",
    "kind": "legislative",
    "conditional": null,
    "timezone": "Europe/Brussels",
    "status": "scheduled",
    "last_verified_at": "2026-09-25T12:00:00Z",
    "stale": false,
    "stale_reason": null,
    "provenance": {
      "from": "researcher agent 2026-09-25: Constitution arts. 46, 48, 65, 96 (senate.be); Code électoral arts. 105, 142, 175, 177 (FPS Interior coordination of 1 Oct 2023); 1976 European Electoral Act arts. 10-11 (EUR-Lex); royal decree of 18 May 2024 (MB 27.05.2024, reprinted in Chamber info sheet 13.00); elections.fgov.be; resultatselection.belgium.be; La Libre 10 Jun 2024",
      "licence": "CC BY 4.0 (Election Index)"
    },
    "url": "https://electionindex.org/election/belgium-legislative-2029",
    "races": [
      {
        "id": "chamber",
        "key": "belgium-legislative-2029/chamber",
        "name": "Chamber of Representatives (Chambre des représentants / Kamer van volksvertegenwoordigers)",
        "body": "legislature-lower",
        "seats": 150,
        "polls_close_utc": "2029-06-10T14:00:00Z",
        "authority": {
          "id": "be-ibz",
          "name": "FPS Interior, Elections Directorate",
          "name_local": "SPF Intérieur – Direction des Élections / FOD Binnenlandse Zaken – Directie van de Verkiezingen",
          "role": "ministry",
          "homepage": "https://elections.fgov.be/",
          "results_index": "https://resultatselection.belgium.be/fr",
          "open_data": "https://resultatselection.belgium.be/fr/XmlOverview/Index"
        },
        "status": "scheduled",
        "expected_stage_now": null,
        "observed": false,
        "final_observed": null,
        "final_expected": {
          "from": "2029-06-10T22:00:00Z",
          "by": "2029-06-15T21:59:59Z",
          "confidence": "estimate",
          "basis": "The official result is each of the 11 main constituency offices' seat allocation (D'Hondt, 5% threshold) and designation of the elected members and substitutes (Code électoral art. 175), sent 'sans délai' to the Chamber clerk and the Minister of the Interior (art. 177). No statutory deadline found, and no official timestamp for 2024 was found: the only precedent is press (national results called final on Mon 10 Jun 2024, Brussels by that afternoon). ESTIMATE: from Monday 00:00 CEST to the end of Friday 15 Jun 2029, CEST, which errs late on purpose. The result is subject to the Chamber's verification of credentials (see court-validation)."
        },
        "stages": [
          {
            "stage": "election-night",
            "from": "2029-06-10T12:00:00Z",
            "by": "2029-06-11T21:59:59Z",
            "replacedAt": null,
            "confidence": "precedent",
            "citation": "Paper-ballot stations close first (14:00 CEST in 2024; the 2029 hours will be set by royal decree under Code électoral art. 142). Each main canton office sends its totals electronically to the Minister of the Interior 'le plus rapidement possible' and the FPS Interior publishes them directly (elections.fgov.be, Dépouillement page). The EU embargo on results until the last member state closes (1976 Act art. 10(2)) covers the European Parliament count only, not the Chamber. Precedent, from press, not from the authority: in 2024 more than half of polling stations had been counted by 20:00 CEST (La Libre, 10 Jun 2024 06:12), La Libre published national results as final at 06:12 CEST on Monday 10 Jun 2024, and Brussels results as final at 16:41 CEST that day. The window closes at the end of Monday 11 Jun 2029, CEST, to cover a Brussels-type delay. These canton totals are not the designation of the elected members.",
            "source": null,
            "observedAt": null,
            "observedSource": null
          },
          {
            "stage": "final-result",
            "from": "2029-06-10T22:00:00Z",
            "by": "2029-06-15T21:59:59Z",
            "replacedAt": null,
            "confidence": "estimate",
            "citation": "The official result is each of the 11 main constituency offices' seat allocation (D'Hondt, 5% threshold) and designation of the elected members and substitutes (Code électoral art. 175), sent 'sans délai' to the Chamber clerk and the Minister of the Interior (art. 177). No statutory deadline found, and no official timestamp for 2024 was found: the only precedent is press (national results called final on Mon 10 Jun 2024, Brussels by that afternoon). ESTIMATE: from Monday 00:00 CEST to the end of Friday 15 Jun 2029, CEST, which errs late on purpose. The result is subject to the Chamber's verification of credentials (see court-validation).",
            "source": null,
            "observedAt": null,
            "observedSource": null
          },
          {
            "stage": "court-validation",
            "from": "2029-06-24T22:00:00Z",
            "by": "2029-07-13T21:59:59Z",
            "replacedAt": null,
            "confidence": "precedent",
            "citation": "Not a court: under Constitution art. 48 'Chaque Chambre vérifie les pouvoirs de ses membres et juge les contestations', and no court reviews it. The new Chamber does this at its first sitting (Chamber info sheets 09.00 and 13.00), which is 'généralement' in the third or fourth week after the election: 25 Jun-8 Jul 2029. The date is set in the royal decree convening the electors; precedent: 2024 decree of 18 May 2024 convened the new Chamber on Thursday 4 July 2024, day 25 (which would be Thursday 5 Jul 2029). The window closes at the end of Friday 13 Jul 2029, CEST, an estimate allowing for a later convening date or verification spread over several sittings.",
            "source": null,
            "observedAt": null,
            "observedSource": null
          },
          {
            "stage": "government",
            "from": "2029-06-24T22:00:00Z",
            "by": null,
            "replacedAt": null,
            "confidence": "estimate",
            "citation": "Constitution art. 96: 'Le Roi nomme et révoque ses ministres'; a new government then seeks the confidence of the new Chamber, which first sits in the third or fourth week after the election (Chamber info sheet 13.00; 2024: 4 Jul). The window opens with that week, 25 Jun 2029 (estimate): no statutory deadline for coalition talks, and the fastest of the last four formations took 139 days. See the government block.",
            "source": null,
            "observedAt": null,
            "observedSource": null
          }
        ],
        "sources": [
          {
            "url": "https://resultatselection.belgium.be/fr",
            "role": "results-live",
            "kind": "results_index",
            "kindReason": "results host, but its root lists many elections",
            "resolvable": false,
            "origin": "race",
            "note": "FPS Interior results portal (index of all European, federal, regional, provincial and communal elections since 1848), not a page for this election. Checked 25 Sep 2026: no 2029 election listed. The 2024 Chamber result sits at https://resultatselection.belgium.be/fr/election-results/chambre-des-repr%C3%A9sentants/2024/royaume/251712 (CSV/XML/JSON downloads; XML per election at /fr/XmlOverview/Index). On election night 2024 the FPS Interior published live results on a dedicated site, elections2024.belgium.be (linked from elections.fgov.be/informations-generales/resultats; not reachable from here on 25 Sep 2026). No 2029 site announced; its address is not predicted here.",
            "check": null
          },
          {
            "url": "https://elections.fgov.be/legislation/lois",
            "role": "timetable",
            "kind": "other",
            "kindReason": "no election or results marker",
            "resolvable": false,
            "origin": "race",
            "note": "DATE WORKING (tentative): last full renewal Sunday 9 Jun 2024; five years expire 9 Jun 2029, so Code électoral art. 105 al. 1 gives the first Sunday after, Sunday 10 Jun 2029. Constitution art. 65 ties it to the European Parliament election, whose default 2029 period under the 1976 Act art. 11(2) is the period corresponding to 6-9 Jun 2024, i.e. Thursday 7 to Sunday 10 Jun 2029; Belgium votes on the Sunday (2024: Sunday 9 Jun). Not decreed: the Council may still move the EU period (by up to two months earlier or one month later) and the date is fixed by royal decree. Snap-election risk: an early dissolution (Constitution art. 46) would bring an extra election within 40 days, and that Chamber would sit only until the next European Parliament election day. FPS Interior legislation page, with the Code électoral (unofficial coordination of 1 Oct 2023, Word). Art. 105 al. 1: ordinary election on 'le premier dimanche qui suit l'expiration d'un délai de cinq années' from the last full renewal; al. 2: moved to the date of another legislative election falling within two months before or one month after. Art. 142: voting 8:00-13:00, the King may delay the closing when the Chamber election coincides with others. Art. 175: the main constituency office designates the elected members. Art. 177: its digital report goes 'sans délai' to the Chamber clerk and the Minister of the Interior. Official consolidated text: ejustice.just.fgov.be/eli/loi/1894/04/12/1894041255/justel (blocked a scripted fetch on 25 Sep 2026).",
            "check": null
          },
          {
            "url": "https://www.senate.be/doc/const_fr.html",
            "role": "timetable",
            "kind": "other",
            "kindReason": "no election or results marker",
            "resolvable": false,
            "origin": "race",
            "note": "Constitution (Senate copy). Art. 65: members elected for five years; 'Les élections pour la Chambre ont lieu le même jour que les élections pour le Parlement européen.' Art. 46: early dissolution only after a confidence or no-confidence vote, or with the Chamber's consent after the government resigns; electors convened within 40 days; after an early dissolution the new term cannot run past the next European Parliament election day. Art. 48: the Chamber verifies its members' credentials. Art. 96: the King appoints the ministers.",
            "check": null
          },
          {
            "url": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CELEX:01976X1008(01)-20020923",
            "role": "timetable",
            "kind": "other",
            "kindReason": "election page without a results marker",
            "resolvable": false,
            "origin": "race",
            "note": "1976 Act on the election of the European Parliament, as amended. Art. 10(1): elections within one period 'starting on a Thursday morning and ending on the following Sunday'. Art. 11(2): 'Subsequent elections shall take place in the corresponding period in the last year of the five-year period', unless the Council, at least one year before the term ends, sets another period no more than two months earlier or one month later.",
            "check": null
          },
          {
            "url": "https://www.lachambre.be/kvvcr/pdf_sections/pri/fiche/fr_13_00.pdf",
            "role": "timetable",
            "kind": "other",
            "kindReason": "no election or results marker",
            "resolvable": false,
            "origin": "race",
            "note": "Chamber info sheet 13.00. After an election the Chamber 'se réunit généralement au cours de la troisième ou de la quatrième semaine qui suit les élections' and first verifies credentials. It reprints the royal decree of 18 May 2024 (Moniteur belge 27.05.2024): electors convened Sunday 9 June 2024 from 8:00 to 14:00 (paper ballots) and to 16:00 (electronic voting); new Chamber convened Thursday 4 July 2024.",
            "check": null
          },
          {
            "url": "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89lections_l%C3%A9gislatives_f%C3%A9d%C3%A9rales_belges_de_2029",
            "role": "see-also",
            "kind": "other",
            "kindReason": "election page without a results marker",
            "resolvable": false,
            "origin": "race",
            "check": null
          },
          {
            "url": "https://resultatselection.belgium.be/fr/XmlOverview/Index",
            "role": "open-data",
            "kind": "other",
            "kindReason": "no election or results marker",
            "resolvable": false,
            "origin": "authority",
            "check": null
          },
          {
            "url": "https://elections.fgov.be/",
            "role": "authority-home",
            "kind": "emb_home",
            "kindReason": "site root: cannot answer a results question",
            "resolvable": false,
            "origin": "authority",
            "check": null
          }
        ],
        "page_activity": [],
        "government": {
          "earliestUtc": "2029-06-24T22:00:00Z",
          "precedentDays": [
            541,
            139,
            494,
            239
          ],
          "note": "Days from Chamber election to the new federal government being sworn in: 2010 Di Rupo 6 Dec 2011 (541), 2014 Michel I 11 Oct 2014 (139), 2019 De Croo 1 Oct 2020 (494; interim governments in between), 2024 De Wever 3 Feb 2025 (239). Dates from English Wikipedia government articles, not yet checked against belgium.be or the Moniteur belge. A government market needs a deadline beyond the longest precedent (541 days)."
        },
        "url": "https://electionindex.org/election/belgium-legislative-2029#chamber"
      }
    ]
  },
  "meta": {
    "dataset_version": "2026-09-25.d023cc13",
    "built_at": "2026-09-25T21:25:00Z",
    "generated_at": "2026-09-25T22:28:12.691Z",
    "licence": "CC BY 4.0: credit \"Election Index (electionindex.org)\" and link to https://electionindex.org",
    "docs": "https://electionindex.org/docs"
  }
}