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1848 Belgian general election

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Field	Value
election_name	1848 Belgian general election
country	Belgium
type	parliamentary
previous_election	1847 Belgian general election
previous_year	1847
next_election	1850 Belgian general election
next_year	1850
seats_for_election	All 108 seats in the Chamber of Representatives
majority_seats	55
election_date
image1	[[File:Charlesrogier.jpg	150x150px]]
leader1	Charles Rogier
leader_since1	Candidate for PM
party1	Liberal Party (Belgium)
seats_before1	55 seats
seats1	83
seat_change1	28
popular_vote1	30,806
percentage1	69.52%
image2	[[File:No image.png	100x100px]]
party2	Catholic
seats_before2	53 seats
seats2	25
seat_change2	28
popular_vote2	13,122
percentage2	29.61%
color2	FFFF00
title	Government
posttitle	Government after election
before_election	Rogier I
before_party	Liberal Party (Belgium)
after_election	Rogier I
after_party	Liberal Party (Belgium)

Full general elections were held in Belgium on 13 June 1848. They followed an equalisation of the tax qualifications for voters, which widened the franchise from 1.0% of the population to 1.8%.{{Cite book Unlike the previous rules which had favoured Conservatives and Catholics (as the requirements were lower in the countryside),

Background

The existing electoral law differentiated in tax requirements between cities and countryside; cities (where Liberals were stronger) had to pay higher taxes in order to vote, compared to the countryside (where Catholics were stronger).

The Liberal Party held its founding congress two years earlier, on 13 June 1846, where it approved a proposal to lower the tax requirements in order to expand suffrage. By 1848, in the context of the Revolutions of 1848, reform was unavoidable. On the proposal of Liberal head of government Charles Rogier, the Parliament approved the law of 12 March 1848, which equalised and lowered the tax requirements to its constitutional minimum.

The new law benefited the Liberals, leading them to victory in these elections. The Liberals would retain their dominant position for the most part until 1884.

Campaign

One Chamber seat was uncontested, and won by the Liberal Party.

Results

Chamber of Representatives

The vote figures do not include the constituency of Oudenaarde.

Senate

References

''Codebook'' Constituency-level Elections Archive, 2003
this benefitted the [[Liberal Party (Belgium)
Thomas T Mackie & Richard Rose (1991) ''The International Almanac of Electoral History'', Macmillan, p46

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