2018 Belgian local elections
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The Belgian provincial, municipal and district elections of 2018 took place on Sunday 14 October 2018. They are organised by the respective regions:
- Brussels with 19 municipalities
- Flanders with 5 provinces and 300 (down from 308) municipalities
- In the city of Antwerp, elections will also be held for its nine districts
- Wallonia with 5 provinces and 262 municipalities
- In the German-speaking Community, the elections are organised by that community rather than the Walloon Region
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.
General
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 will be held in May 2019, only a few months after the October 2018 local elections.
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