# Canonical recap data for First Parliamentary Election Belgium (1831)
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slug: belgium-first-election
canonicalUrl: "https://recap.at/1831/belgium-first-election"
title: First Parliamentary Election Belgium
subtitle: Belgium's inaugural parliamentary elections established the Kingdom's constitutional monarchy and represented an early European experiment in representative democracy following independence from the Netherlands.
recapType: global_event
eventStatus: concluded
startDate: 1831-01-01
datePrecision: year
year: 1831
decade: 1830
country:
name: Belgium
slug: belgium
summaryShort: Parliamentary counsel are lawyers who prepare drafts of legislation to be passed into law. The terms parliamentary drafter, parliamentary draftsman, legislative drafting officer and legislative counsel are also widely used.
summaryLong: Parliamentary counsel are lawyers who prepare drafts of legislation to be passed into law. The terms parliamentary drafter, parliamentary draftsman, legislative drafting officer and legislative counsel are also widely used.
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heroImageCredit: MrsBrown on Pixabay
importance: 71
sourceConfidence: 75
keyFacts: []
timeline: []
sources:
- url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parliamentary_counsel"
  title: First Parliamentary Counsel
  provider: Wikipedia
related: []
categories:
- election
metaDescription: Parliamentary counsel are lawyers who prepare drafts of legislation to be passed into law. The terms parliamentary drafter, parliamentary draftsman, legislative
wikidataQid: Q55474415
archiveSnapshots:
- url: "https://web.archive.org/web/20260128101204/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parliamentary_counsel"
  capturedAt: 2026-01-28
  label: First Parliamentary Counsel
  originalUrl: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parliamentary_counsel"
