Luxembourg voters on Sunday booted out the current coalition government. The Luxembourg Times will continue its election coverage in the coming days. This closes our live blog for 8 October.

Luxembourg Times

Despite voting in Luxembourg being compulsory, voter turnout was down this year compared to 2018. While at the last parliamentary election, 90% of voters headed to the polls, this was down to 87% on Sunday. In theory, people skipping voting can be fined but this law has not been enforced for decades. 

Luxembourg Times

With 249,968 ballots submitted, there were 7,889 blanks cast in the country's polling station urns, and another 10,735 ballot papers wrongly filled in. That means nearly 7.5% of ballots weren't counted.

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