Analyse socio-spatiale du lieu de résidence des élus communaux à Bruxelles et en périphérie

Abstract

Analysing the communal representatives’ places of residence in Brussels and its periphery reveals the spatial logics of their distribution. The first is a socio-economic one: they generally live in wealthier neighbourhoods than the electors as a whole. Nevertheless this is mostly true for the PRL (Liberal Reformers), PSC (Social-Christians) and FDF (French-speaking Front) representatives. As to the Greens, PS (Socialists) and VLD (Flemish Liberal Democrats), they are overrepresented in the « middle class » neighbourhoods, among which the ecologists show a marked preference for the older built areas (former village cores in the periphery or the communes belonging to the outer Brussels suburbs), or the upgrading zones (central city parts or first belt gentrifying quarters). The spatial distribution of the representatives of the Dutch-speaking parties is harder to interpret and its distribution logics differ from that of their French-speaking political counterparts.

Keywords

• Brussels
• elections
• communal representatives
• local democracy
• neighbourhoods