Some 517,162 people turned out to vote in Brussels this weekend, to elect who will serve on the region's 19 municipalities for the next six years,
For those of you who weren't glued to our live blog all day on Sunday, here's a run down of the results, commune by commune.
Anderlecht
In Anderlecht, the centre-right list bringing together MR, Les Engagés, Open VLD and CD&V came out on top with 27.3% of the vote (15 seats). Close on its heels was the PS-Vooruit list with 26.8% (also 15 seats).
Rounding out the rest was PTB-PVDA with 14.9% (7 seats), Team Fouad Ahidar with 14.1% (7 seats), and Ecolo-Groen with 7.8% (3 seats).
N-VA (3.3%), Anderlecht Autrement (2.6%), DéFI (2.3%) and the Citizen’s Collective (0.9%) did not receive enough votes to win any seats.
Final count
- MR-Les Engagés-VLD-CD&V (12,442)
- PS-Vooruit (12,234)
- PTB-PVDA (6,811)
- Team Fouad Ahidar (6,436)
- Ecolo-Groen (3,575)
- N-VA (1,506 votes)
- Anderlecht Autrement (1,202 votes)
- DéFI (1,031 votes)
- Collectif Citoyen (388)
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Augherdem
The Liste du Bourgmestre led by Sophie de Vos (DéFI) comfortably won the local election in Augherdem on Sunday, earning 47.1% of the vote (17 seats, just enough for an absolute majority).
In second place was MR-Les Engagés-VLD-CDV (22.9%; 8 seats), followed by Ecolo-Groen (20.2%; 6 seats) and PS (9.9%; 2 seats).
Final count
- Liste du Bourgmestre (DéFI) (7,777)
- MR-Les Engagés-VLD-CDV (3,789)
- Ecolo-Groen (3,331)
- PS (1,631)
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Ixelles residents arrive at a voting station. Credit: The Brussels Times
Berchem-Saint-Agathe
Mayor Christian Lamouline (Les Engagés) has won again in Berchem-Saint-Agathe: with 33.6% of the vote, his Liste du Bourgmestre – which mostly consists of Les Engagés members – will have 12 seats in the new municipal council (+4 seats).
PS-Vooruit came in second (23.1%; 7 seats), ahead of Open MR (18.4%; 6 seats) Ecolo-Groen (9%; 2 seats) and Be Berchem list (8.4%; 2 seats). N-VA (4%) and DéFI (3.5%) did not win enough votes to earn a seat.
During the campaign, the outgoing coalition (La Liste du Bourgmestre, PS-Vooruit+ and Ecolo-Groen) had announced its intention to continue governing the municipality if voters renewed their confidence in it. If this intention is confirmed, the coalition will have a comfortable lead over the opposition on the council (21 seats out of 29). The agreement also provides for the reappointment of Lamouline as mayor.
Final count
- Liste du Bourgmestre (Les Engagés) (3,969)
- PS-Vooruit + (2,721)
- Open MR (2,175)
- Ecolo-Groen (1,058)
- Be Berchem (991)
- N-VA (477)
- DéFI (410)
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City of Brussels
The PS-Vooruit list led by outgoing mayor Philippe Close won the elections to the City of Brussels on Sunday, with 28.1% of the vote, taking 16 seats. Despite losing two seats, the list remains ahead of the MR+ list (12 seats; +5) which won 21.2% of the vote.
In third place was PTB-PVDA (13.4%; 7 seats) which gained one seat; followed by Ecolo-Groen (13%; 6 seats) which lost three seats, Team Fouad Ahidar (10.8%; 5 seats); and Les Engagés (6.6%; 3 seats). With 2.6% of the vote, DéFI did not gain enough support to retain any of its three seats on the council.
Mathematically, the only possible two-party coalition is between the PS-Vooruit and MR+ lists.
Final count
- PS - Vooruit (19,699)
- MR+ (14,858)
- PTB-PVDA (9,387)
- Ecolo-Groen (9,141)
- Team Fouad Ahidar (7,566)
- Les Engagés-CD&V (4,661)
- DéFI & Vous (1,801)
- N-VA (1,677)
- Vlaams Belang (1,057)
- Vista CollectifCitoyen (342)
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Etterbeek
In Etterbeek, Mayor Vincent De Wolf's has retained his position as the Liste du Bourgemestre (MR, CD&V, Open VLD, independents) won the most votes (37.8%; 16 seats). The mayor's list did see a small decrease (-3.6%) compared to 2018.
Ecolo-Groen, who were in a coalition with MR, came in second place (21.4%; 8 seats) but lost 6.5%.
This was followed by Les Engagés (12.2%; 4 seats), PS-Vooruit (12%; 4 seats) and PTB-PVDA (10.6%; 3 seats), who benefitted from the slight drop in support for the ruling coalition.
DéFI (3.4%) and Volt Europa Etterbeek (2.7%) did not get enough votes to win a seat.
De Wolf is set to become Mayor of Etterbeek for another five years, having first been election on 16 January 1992.
Final count
- Liste du Bourgmestre (MR, CD&V, Open VLD, independents) (6,873)
- Ecolo-Groen (3,883)
- Les Engagés (2,211)
- PS-Vooruit (2,177)
- PTB-PVDA (1,923)
- DéFI (614)
- Volt Europa Etterbeek (483)
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PS' Rudi Vervoort casts his vote at a polling station in Evere, Brussels, Sunday 13 October 2024. Credit: Belga / Timon Ramboer
Evere
PS figureheads Ridouane Chahid and Rudi Vervoort's list have won an absolute majority in Evere with 45.9% of the vote (19 seats). MR came in second with 22.98% (9 seats).
This was followed by Les Engagés Everois (10.88%; 3 seats), Ecolo-Groen (10.73%; 3 seats), DéFI (5.51%; 1 seat). Vlaams Belang (4.05%) did not win enough votes for a seat.
Final count
- Liste du Bourgmestre (PS) (8,100)
- MR (4,058)
- Les Engagés Everois (1,921)
- Ecolo-Groen (1,895)
- DéFI (973)
- Vlaams Belang (715)
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Forest
The MR-DéFI joint list came out on top on Sunday in Forest, where four parties were within a whisker of each other at over 20%.
MR+DéFI won 25.8% of the vote (10 seats), ahead of PS-Vooruit (24.8%, 9 seats), PTB-PVDA (21.2%, 8 seats) and Ecolo-Groen (20.8%, 8 seats), which won the majoiryt in 2018. Les Engagés received 7.4% of the vote (2 seats).
Forest was split by the divisive Good Move policy and MR’s victory suggests a desire to do away with the controversial mobility plan.
Final count
- MR+DéFI (6,214)
- PS-Vooruit (5,967)
- PTB-PVDA (5,102)
- Ecolo-Groen (5,000)
- Les Engagés (1,788)
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Ecolo-Groen's Elke Van den Brandt casts her vote at a polling station in Ganshoren, Sunday 13 October 2024. Credit: Belga / Timon Ramboer
Ganshoren
The Liste du Bourgmestre led by Jean-Paul Van Laethem came out first in Ganshoren, with 31.9% of the votes and 11 seats.
PS+Citoyens came in second (23.6%; 7 seats) followed by Open MR (23%; 7 seats), Ecolo-Groen (11.1%; 3 seats) and DéFI (6.1%; 1 seat). With 4.3% of the vote, N-VA did not win a seat.
Last spring, Les Engagés-CD&V and independents, PS+Citoyens and Défi agreed to propose a new majority.
Final count
- Liste du Bourgmestre (Les Engagés) (3,601)
- PS+Citoyens (2,665)
- Open MR (2,603)
- Ecolo-Groen (1,256)
- DéFI (689)
- N-VA (481)
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Ixelles
The Liste de Bourgmestre Ecolo-Groen, led by mayor Christos Doulkeridis, has defied the odds by winning the most votes in the Brussels municipality of Ixelles and retaining its coalition majority with PS.
Ecolo-Groen won 28.4% of the vote (13 seats), despite going down by 4.6 percentage points and losing 3 seats. MR have finished in second place, up slightly to 27.7% of the vote (also 13 seats). The PS came third with 19.6% of the vote and 9 seats, followed by PTB (10.9%; 4 seats) and the Objective XL Committed (10%; 4 seats).
With 3.3%, DéFI did not win enough votes to retain either of its two seats.
On paper, the outgoing Ecolo-PS majority could be renewed with 22 seats, but parties may prefer to forge a three way coalition to create a greater margin.
Final count
- Bourgmestre Ecolo-Groen (9,193)
- MR & VLD avec vous (8,964)
- PS-Vooruit (6,340)
- PTB-PVDA (3,520)
- Les Engagés-ObjectifXL (3,236)
- DéFI (1,065)
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Numbers pictured at a polling station in Jette, Brussels, Sunday 13 October 2024. Credit: Belga / Eric Lalmand
Jette
The LBJette list led by Mayor Claire Vandevivere emerged victorious in Jette on Sunday. Although down 13.8 points, the Engagés-led list obtained 24% of the vote and will have 11 seats out of 37 (-5) in the next municipal council.
The MR-Open VLD list led by regional Budget Minister Sven Gatz is in second place (17.2%; 7 seats). In third place is PS-Vooruit with 14.1% (6 seats).
Meanwhile, Team Fouad Ahidar secured 12.7% of votes (5 seats), with leader Fouad Ahidar obtaining the best personal score in the municipality with 2,293 preference votes, ahead of Claire Vandevivere and her 2,101 votes.
Final count
- Liste du Bourgmestre (Les Engagés) (5,644)
- MR-VLD (4,052)
- PS-Vooruit (3,323)
- Team Fouad Ahidar (2,983)
- Ecolo-Groen (2,789)
- PTB-PVDA (2,757)
- DéFI (810)
- Vlaams Belang (607)
- N-VA (546)
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Koekelberg
The president of the Brussels Socialist Party (PS) and mayor of Koekelberg, Ahmed Laaouej, has been re-elected after securing an absolute majority with 50.3% of the vote, earning 14 out of 27 seats.
The liberal Open MR list came in second with 22.1% and 6 seats, followed by Ecolo-Groen with 14.3% and 4 seats.
The outgoing majority was a coalition of PS, Vooruit, Ecolo/Groen, Défi, and Alternative humaniste (Engagés).
Final count
- Liste du Bourgmestre (PS) (4,193)
- Open MR (1,840)
- Ecolo-Groen (1,190)
- Les Engagés + (885)
- N-VA (225)
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Molenbeek-Saint-Jean
Molenbeek mayor Catherine Moureaux's PS-Vooruit list held firm. While her party suffered heavy losses (23.1%, down from 31.3% in 2018), PS-Vooruit narrowly held off Dirk De Block's PTB-PVDA, who received 22.2% (an increase of 8.5%) of the votes.
PS-Vooruit won 12 seats, while PTB-PVDA won 11.
Liberals MR-VLD finished third with 17.1% (8 seats), while Team Fouad Ahidar jumped to 14.6% (7 seats). Molenbeek Autrement, Ahmed El Khannouss's list, also captured 9.4% of the vote (4 seats). This was followed by Ecolo-Groen (6.5%; 2 seats) and Les Engagés-CD&V (4.7%; 1 seat). N-VA (2.5%) did not win enough votes to retain its seat.
A continuation of the current red-blue coalition is impossible.
Credit: Belga / Hatim Kaghat
Final count
- PS-Vooruit (8,431)
- PTB-PVDA (8,102)
- MR-VLD (6,241)
- Team Fouad Ahidar (5,347)
- Molenbeek Autrement (3,429)
- Ecolo-Groen (2,387)
- Les Engagés-CD&V (1,702)
- N-VA (931)
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Saint-Gilles
Saint-Gilles was among the last to announce its results despite being one of the smallest municipalities in Brussels.
Jean Spinette's Liste du Bourgmestre (PS-Vooruit) has retained its traditional socialist stronghold in Saint-Gilles, winning 33.7% of the vote. PTB-PVDA is in second place with 24.4% and Ecolo has come third with 23.1%.
PTB have gained a whopping 11.4% percentage points, even if according to the results, PS-Ecolo have enough seats to renew their coalition majority (13 seats for PS and 8 for Ecolo, while PTB-PVDA won 9 seats).
Final count
- Liste du Bourgmestre (PS-Vooruit) (5,950)
- PTB-PVDA (4,305)
- Ecolo-Groen (4,087)
- Open MR-Les Engagés (2,833)
- DéFI-Volt (451)
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Saint-Josse-ten-Noode
Outgoing mayor Emir Kir won an absolute majority in the Brussels municipality of Saint-Josse-ten-Noode. With 50.5% of the votes and 17 seats out of 29, the ex-PS can retain his seat in the country's most densely populated municipality.
PS finished in second place (19.9%, 6 seats), ahead of Ecolo-Groen (15.5%, 4 seats), and Les Engagés-CD&V-MR (9%, 2 seats). With 5.1% of the vote, Team Fouad Ahidar does not enter the municipal council.
Emir Kir made little secret during the campaign about his post-electoral intentions, in the event of victory: if he opens his majority, it will be neither with the PS nor with Ecolo.
Final count
- Liste du Bourgmestre (Independent) (4,966)
- PS (1,961)
- Ecolo-Groen (1,529)
- Les Engagés-CD&V-MR (889)
- Team Fouad Ahidar (498)
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Ibrahim Donmez and Yildiz Yusuf (R) celebrate at a meeting of Schaerbeek - Schaarbeek' French-speaking socialist party PS, on the evening of the local elections on Sunday 13 October 2024. Credit: Belga
Schaerbeek
The PS (19.2%) and the joint MR-Les Engagés (18.2%) lists finished neck-and-neck, both with ten seats.
In third place was Ecolo-Groen (17.6%; 9 seats), followed by PTB-PVDA (13.2%; 6 seats). The Liste du Bourgmestre of current mayor Bernard Clerfayt (DéFI) lost 11 seats and only finished in fifth place (12.6%; 6 seats).
Meanwhile, Team Fouad Ahidar won 8.5% (4 seats), 1030 Ensemble won 5.4% (2 seats), and there were no seats for Vooruit+ (2.3%), N-VA (2.1%) or Collectif Citoyens (0.9%).
Final count
- PS (9,285)
- MR & Les Engagés (8,830)
- Ecolo-Groen (8,525)
- PTB-PVDA (6,406)
- Liste du Bourgmestre (DéFI, Schaerbeek Liberals, Open VLD and independents) (6,109)
- Team Fouad Ahidar (4,116)
- 1030 Ensemble (2,599)
- Vooruit+ (1,092)
- N-VA (1,007)
- Collectif Citoyen (457)
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Uccle
Current mayor Boris Dilliès’ Liste du Bourgmestre enjoyed a comfortable win. The MR-DéFI coalition secured 15,154 votes: 39.8% of the total (19 seats, three short of an absolute majority).
In second place was Ecolo-Groen (21.6%; 10 seats), followed by PS (13.5%; 6 seats), Les Engagés (11.2%; 4 seats) and Uccle En Avant (10.4%; 4 seats). N-VA (1.8%) and Collectif Citoyen (1.8%) did not receive enough votes to earn seats.
Final count
- Liste du Bourgmestre (MR) (15,154)
- Ecolo-Groen (8,220)
- PS (5,146)
- Les Engagés (4,251)
- Uccle En Avant (3,960)
- N-VA (692)
- Collectif Citoyen (669)
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Watermael-Boitsfort
In Watermael-Boitsfort, the MR-GM-Les Engagés list – headed by MR leader in Brussels David Leisterh, known for his active opposition to the Good Move mobility plan – has won with 38% of the vote (12 seats) over Ecolo (26%) which halved its number of seats to four.
PS-Vooruit climbed to 17.7% and 5 seats, gaining 2. DéFI dropped to 14.3% and 4 seats, a loss of 3.
Under the previous mandate, the mayor's office was held by Olivier Deleuze (Ecolo), who did not stand for re-election. Tristan Roberti was the list leader for Ecolo.
Final count
- MR-GM-Les Engagés (5,153)
- Ecolo-Groen (3,545)
- PS-Vooruit CauseComm (2,404)
- DéFI (1,942)
- RNV (512)
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Woluwe-Saint-Lambert
Big success for DéFI’s Liste du Bourgmestre in Woluwe-Saint-Lambert: the party has secured 45.5% of the votes (21 seats).
The remaining half of votes is shared between Mouvement Réformateur (20.2%; 8 seats), Les Engagés (12.4%; 4 seats), Ecolo (12.1%; 4 seats), PS-Vooruit (7%; 2 seats). With 2.9% of the vote, Team Fouad Ahidar did not win any seats.
Nonetheless, DéFI has lost its majority and suffered a 13.9% drop in support since 2018.
Final count
- Liste du Bourgmestre (DéFI)
- MR+
- Les Engagés
- Ecolo-Groen
- PS-Vooruit
- Team Fouad Ahidar
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Two elderly ladies queue in line at a polling station in Woluwe-Saint-Pierre/ Sint-Pieters-Woluwe, Brussels, Sunday 09 June 2024. Credit: Belga / Hatim Kaghat
Woluwe-Saint-Pierre
Outgoing mayor is Benoît Cerexhe (Les Engagés), outgoing coalition is Les Engagés-Ecolo-DéFi
With 61.7% of the votes, the Liste du Bourgmestre led by Benoît Cerexhe comfortably won the absolute majority in Woluwe-Saint-Pierre. This joint list between Les Engagés, MR and Open VLD (which also includes Secretary of State for the Budget Alexia Bertrand (Open VLD)) will have 24 seats out of 35 on the municipal council.
In second place was Ecolo-Groen (18.7%; 6 seats), ahead of Citoyens+PS-Vooruit (9.8%; 3 seats) and DéFI l'Alternative (9.7%, 2 seats).
Final count
- Liste du Bourgmestre (Les Engagés-MR-Open VLD) (11,472)
- Ecolo-Groen (3,472)
- Citoyens+PS-Vooruit (1,830)
- DéFI l'Alternative (1,811)
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