This is the final result, all votes counted.

What happens next?

• First what happend already this morning: - King accepts PM's resignation

  The Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt (Flemish liberal) this morning tendered his resignation to King Albert. The King has accepted the Prime Minister's resignation.

• In the coming hours the Belgian monarch will be meeting a host of other top Belgian politicians.

• The talks should lead to the appointment of an "informateur", a politician who can sound out the parties and suggest who is best placed to form Belgium's next coalition government.

• The Flemish centrist alliance of Christian democrats and nationalists is now the largest political force in the country.

• A Christian democrat/liberal coalition is now seen as the most likely outcome of coalition formation talks.

• If Mr Leterme wants to press ahead with state reforms a government with a two-thirds majority is required. This could only be supplied by a Christian democrat/liberal/socialist coalition.