1999 Belgian federal election

13 June 1999 (1999-06-13)

Chamber of Representatives

All 150 seats in the Chamber of Representatives
76 seats needed for a majority

Turnout

90.56%

	Leader	Vote %	Seats	+/–
VLD	Guy Verhofstadt	14.30	23	+2
CVP	Jean-Luc Dehaene	14.09	22	−7
Socialiste	Elio Di Rupo	10.16	19	−2
PRL–FDF	Louis Michel	10.14	18	0
Vlaams Blok	Frank Vanhecke	9.87	15	+4
Socialistische	Fred Erdman	9.55	14	−6
Ecolo		7.36	11	+5
Agalev	Jos Geysels	6.99	9	+4
PSC	Philippe Maystadt	5.88	10	−2
People's Union	Patrik Vankrunkelsven	5.56	8	+3
National Front	Daniel Féret	1.45	1	−1

This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.

Senate

40 of the 71 seats in the Senate
36 seats needed for a majority

Turnout

90.57%

	Vote %	Seats
VLD	15.37	11
CVP	14.75	10
PRL–FDF	10.57	9
Socialiste	9.65	10
Vlaams Blok	9.42	6
Socialistische	8.89	6
Ecolo	7.4	6
Agalev	7.09	5
PSC	6.04	5
People's Union	5.13	3

This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.

Government before	Government after election
Dehaene II CVP-PSC-PS-SP	Verhofstadt I VLD-PRL-PS-SP-Agalev-Ecolo

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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.

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.