1995 Belgian federal election

Federal elections were held in Belgium on 21 May 1995 to elect members of the Chamber of Representatives and Senate. The Christian People's Party (CVP) kept its position as largest party in Flanders and overall in Belgium, and Jean-Luc Dehaene (CVP) continued as Prime Minister.

21 May 1995

All 150 seats in the Chamber of Representatives
40 of 71 seats in the Senate
respectively 76 and 36 seats needed for a majority

	First party	Second party	Third party
			PS
Leader	Jean-Luc Dehaene	Guy Verhofstadt	Philippe Busquin
Party	CVP	Open Vld	PS
Leader since	Candidate for PM	1992	1992
Last election	39 seats, 16.8%	26 seats, 12.0%	35 seats, 13.5%
Seats won	29	21	21
Seat change	10	5	14
Popular vote	1,042,933	798,363	720.819
Percentage	17.2%	13.1%	11.9%
Swing	0.4%	1.1%	1.6%

	Fourth party	Fifth party	Sixth party

Leader	Louis Tobback	Louis Michel	Gérard Deprez
Party	sp.a	MR	cdH
Leader since	1994	1995	1981
Last election	28 seats, 12.0%	23 seats, 9.6%	18 seats, 7.7%
Seats won	20	18	12
Seat change	8	5	6
Popular vote	762.444	623.250	469.101
Percentage	12.6%	10.1%	7.7%
Swing	0.6%	0.5%

Government before election

Dehaene I
CVP-PSC-PS-SP

Government after election

Dehaene II
CVP-PSC-PS-SP

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On the same day, regional elections were also held. These were the first elections after the new 1993 Belgian Constitution, which turned Belgium formally into a federal state. The new Constitution also reduced the number of seats in the Chamber (from 212 to 150) and in the Senate (from 70 to 40 directly elected senators).

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