Belgian local elections, 2018
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The Belgian provincial, municipal and district elections of 2018 will take place on Sunday 14 October 2018. They are organised by the respective regions:
In the municipalities with language facilities of Voeren, Comines-Warneton and the 6 of the Brussels Periphery, the aldermen and members of the OCMW/CPAS council are directly elected.
Although the laws governing local elections differ per region (Brussels, Flanders and Wallonia) and per level (provinces, municipalities, districts and OCMW/CPAS), they are all similar, with all of the elections being held on the same second Sunday of October for a six-year term.
Between the 2012 and 2018 local elections, elections were only held in May 2014 (European, federal and regional), giving an unusually long period without elections in Belgium. The next European, federal and regional elections would be held somewhere in May-June 2019, only a few months after the October 2018 local elections.
National political parties are mostly separated by language community. A lot of municipalities have local parties as well as a presence of national parties. Here are the most important national parties:
The municipal councils in the 19 municipalities will be elected.
The provincial councils of Antwerp, Flemish Brabant, East Flanders, West Flanders and Limburg will be elected. The Flemish Government intends to reduce the total number of provincial councillors from 351 to 175. Councillors are elected for a six-year term, starting on the first working day in December following the elections, thus 3 December 2018.
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