The northern constituency is the second smallest one in the country. Nine MPs will be elected in the region. They will be responsible for the needs of the residents in the north of the country. Diana Hoffmann from the RTL.lu team analysed the political history of this election district for us.
In 2018, during the last legislative elections, the Christian Socialist Workers Party (CSV) won in 32 of 35 northern communes and were able to keep their four seats in the Chamber of Deputies. The Democratic Party (DP) and the Green Party were also able to keep the seats they had. Only the Luxembourg Socialist Workers’ Party (LSAP) lost the one seat that they had, to the Alternative Democratic Reform Party (ADR).
Six out of nine MPs were elected directly into the parliament, and of the three remaining seats, one went to the ADR, one to the DP and one to the CSV.
Notably absent from the lists in the North this year, is former Minister of Agriculture Romain Schneider. In 2018, he was the most elected person in the North. His replacement Claude Haagen and a new candidate Flore Schank will fill this gap. Meanwhile the CSV is betting on Martine Hansen (in 2018 she had the most votes among all parties ) and on European MP Christophe Hansen. Minister Fernand Etgen and Marc Hansen are familiar faces on the DP election list. For the Greens, Claude Turmes and Stephanie Empain are topping the list. The ADR kept the same candidates as last year on the top of their list: Jeff Engelen and Michel Lemaire.
For the first time residents of the North can elect members of Fokus and Libertré-Fräiheet (liberty-freedom). They can however no longer vote for members of the Communist Party.
During the last elections, the CSV collected almost 57,000 votes, twice as much as the second placed party DP. The LSAP rounded out the top three, with around 25,500 votes. In 2018, the ADR received more votes than the Greens party, with around 24,800 and around 23,900 votes respectively.
Compared to the 2013 legislative elections, the DP lost the most votes. In 2018, they had lost 6.58% of all votes. They were not able to make up for Charel Goerens’s lost votes, who was no longer on their lists. The CSV and the LSAP also lost a few votes that year. Compared to 2013, it was the Pirate Party, the Greens Party and the ADR that gained the most votes in 2018. They had all gained between 3.4% and 4.3 of votes.
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