Editing Herstal (section)

==Politics==
{| class="wikitable" width="40%"
! colspan="2" | Municipal head
|-
|'''Mayor'''
|[[Frédéric Daerden]] (PS)
|-
|'''Deputies'''
|Franco Ianeri (PS)<br/>Marc Haeken (PS)<br/>Jean-Louis Lefebvre (PS)<br/>Christian Laverdeur (PS)<br/>Léon Campstein (PS)<br/>André Namotte (E.P.H.)<br/>Isabelle Thomsin (PS)
|}

{| class="wikitable"
! Party
!  %
! Diff. 2000
! Seat
! Diff 2000
! Leader
|-
| PS
| 50,86
| -1,14
| 20
| -1
| Albert Crépin
|-
| EPH (PSC)
| 18,99
| +2,59
| 6
| +1
| Norbert Weytjens
|-
| MR<ref>[http://www.mrherstal.be/ MR : Section de HERSTAL<!-- Titre généré automatiquement -->] {{webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20120605004537/http://www.mrherstal.be/ |date=2012-06-05 }}</ref> (PRL)
| 14,14
| +3,24
| 4
| +1
| Jennifer Maus <ref>{{cite web|url=http://jennifermaus.skynetblogs.be/|title=Jennifer Maus|access-date=2009-03-18|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101027183553/http://jennifermaus.skynetblogs.be/|archive-date=2010-10-27|url-status=dead}}</ref>
|-
| PTB<ref>[http://liege.ptb.be/fr/accueil.html liege.ptb.be: Actuel<!-- Titre généré automatiquement -->]{{dead link|date=November 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
| 9,38
| +2,18
| 2
| 0
| [[Nadia Moscufo]]
|-
| ECOLO<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.liege.ecolo.be/spip/|title=ECOLO - Ecolo - Groupe local de Liège|access-date=2008-12-13|archive-date=2017-03-22|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170322015344/http://www.liege.ecolo.be/spip/|url-status=dead}}</ref>
| 6,62
| -2,28
| 1
| -1
| Anne-Marie Meunier-Balthasart
|}
Herstal is a left-wing/socialist stronghold. It was also the strongest area in support of the far-left [[Workers' Party of Belgium]] in the 2019 elections, gaining 27.55% of the votes in Herstal.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ptb.be/resultats2019|title = Les résultats électoraux du PTB}}</ref>