1999 Belgian federal election

Federal elections were held in Belgium on June 13, 1999 to elect members of the Chamber of Representatives and Senate. The elections were held on the same day as the European elections and the regional elections. The Flemish Liberals and Democrats (VLD) became the largest party.

13 June 1999 (1999-06-13)

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

Leader	Guy Verhofstadt	Jean-Luc Dehaene	Elio Di Rupo
Party	Open Vld	CVP	PS
Leader since	1997	Candidate for PM	1999
Last election	21 seats, 13.1%	29 seats, 17.18%	21 seats, 11.87%
Seats before	21	29	21
Seats won	23	22	19
Seat change	2	7	2
Popular vote	888,861	875,455	631,653
Percentage	14.30%	14.09%	10.16%
Swing	1.15%	3.09%	1.71%

	Fourth party	Fifth party	Sixth party
			sp.a
Leader	Louis Michel	Frank Vanhecke	Fred Erdman
Party	MR	VB	sp.a
Leader since	1995	1996	1998
Last election	18 seats, 10.26%	11 seats, 7.83%	14 seats, 12.56%
Seats before	18	11	20
Seats won	18	15	14
Seat change		4	6
Popular vote	630,219	613,399	593,372
Percentage	10.14%	9.87%	9.55%
Swing	0.12%	2.04%	3.01%

Government before election

Dehaene II
CVP-PSC-PS-SP

Government after election

Verhofstadt I
VLD-PRL-PS-SP-Agalev-Ecolo

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The Christian Democrats (CVP/PSC) suffered historic losses due to the dioxine affair that broke loose that year. Jean-Luc Dehaene's reign of eight years came to an end. Verhofstadt formed a six-party coalition comprising the liberal (VLD and PRL), socialist (SP and PS), and green parties (Agalev and Ecolo). It was the first liberal-led government since 1938, and the first since 1958 that didn't include a Christian Democratic party.

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