Belgiumin MapsOfficial Belgian data, explained
Blank/invalid ballots by municipality in Belgium (2024)
This page maps Blank/invalid ballots for one nationally comparable 2024 slice. Every figure below uses the same disclosed definition, unit, geography and source.
Elections
What this indicator measures
The API nrOfBlankVotes field. The API does not provide a municipality split between blank and otherwise invalid ballots.
Blank/invalid ballots. The API nrOfBlankVotes field. The API does not provide a municipality split between blank and otherwise invalid ballots.
Indicator dossier
Data passport
- Selected reference period
- 2024
- Geography
- municipalities
- Measure
- Blank/invalid ballots
- Unit
- ballots
- Comparable areas
- 575
- Coverage
- 99%
Latest published slice
How to read the pattern
- Median
- 450ballots
- Unweighted area mean
- 708ballots
- Minimum
- 2ballots
- Maximum
- 12,432ballots
Across the valid national comparison set, the median is 450 ballots. Values extend from 2 to 12,432 ballots. This describes geographic variation; it is not a score of local quality.
Geography
Map of Belgium
- 2–254115 areas
- 254–377114 areas
- 377–541115 areas
- 541–903116 areas
- 903–12,432115 areas
Categories
Distribution by official map class
| Value | Areas | Categories |
|---|---|---|
| 2–254 | 115 | |
| 254–377 | 114 | |
| 377–541 | 115 | |
| 541–903 | 116 | |
| 903–12,432 | 115 |
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municipalities
Highest and lowest values
From 575 comparable areas, the table shows a concise descriptive high-and-low sample. Equal values do not imply equal local circumstances.
| Position | # | Area | Official code | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Highest | 1 | Charleroi | 52011 | 12,432 ballots |
| Highest | 2 | Antwerpen | 11002 | 11,823 ballots |
| Highest | 3 | Liège | 62063 | 8,117 ballots |
| Highest | 4 | Gent | 44021 | 6,393 ballots |
| Highest | 5 | La Louvière | 58001 | 4,963 ballots |
| Highest | 6 | Bruxelles | 21004 | 4,915 ballots |
| Highest | 7 | Mons | 53053 | 4,878 ballots |
| Highest | 8 | Namur | 92094 | 4,732 ballots |
| Highest | 9 | Tournai | 57081 | 3,656 ballots |
| Highest | 10 | Mouscron | 57096 | 3,645 ballots |
| Lowest | 575 | Herstappe | 73028 | 2 ballots |
| Lowest | 574 | Baarle-Hertog | 13002 | 36 ballots |
| Lowest | 573 | Horebeke | 45062 | 51 ballots |
| Lowest | 572 | Zuienkerke | 31042 | 67 ballots |
| Lowest | 571 | Bever | 23009 | 73 ballots |
| Lowest | 570 | Mesen | 33016 | 76 ballots |
| Lowest | 569 | Hove | 11021 | 80 ballots |
| Lowest | 568 | Lo-Reninge | 32030 | 91 ballots |
| Lowest | 567 | Voeren | 73109 | 96 ballots |
| Lowest | 566 | Wasseiges | 64075 | 98 ballots |
Method and limitations
Method and limitations
No missing value is imputed. Classification breaks and colours come from the catalogue, and source-declared suppression remains missing.
The area mean gives every published geographic area equal weight. It is not weighted by population, exposure or area size.
Read the methodologySources, licence and provenance
Sources, licence and provenance
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0