Christian trades union still the largest
With 50.98% of the votes counted so-far, ACV retains an absolute majority of the delegates in the Works/Employees Councils. This is down 0.68% on last time. In the Committees for Prevention and Protection at Work ACV won 51.8% of the votes, down 0.67% on last time.
The socialist ABVV union also is down slightly, winning 34.93% (-0.70%) of the votes for the Works/Employees Councils and 35.77% (-0.61%) in the Committees for Prevention and Protection at Work.
The big winner is the small liberal trade union ACLVB. ACLVB gained 12.32% (up 1.12%) of the votes for Works/Employees Councils and 12.43% (up 1.28%) for Committees for Prevention and Protection at Work.
A total of 776,867 people voted in the elections for Works/Employees Councils and 856,885 in the elections for the Committees for Prevention and Protection at Work, a turnout of 63.5% and 65.4% respectively. This is down slightly on the last social elections in 2012.