Federal elections were held in

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on June 13, 1999 to elect members of the Chamber of Representatives and

Senate A senate is a deliberative assembly, often the upper house or chamber of a bicameral legislature. The name comes from the ancient Roman Senate (Latin: ''Senatus''), so-called as an assembly of the senior (Latin: ''senex'' meaning "the el ...

. The elections were held on the same day as the European elections and the regional elections. The

Flemish Liberals and Democrats french: Libéraux et démocrates flamands ouverts , abbreviation = Open Vld , logo = , leader1_title = President , leader1_name = Egbert Lachaert , foundation = 1992 (VLD)2007 (Open Vld) , predecessor = Pa ...

(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 Jean Luc Joseph Marie "Jean-Luc" Dehaene (; 7 August 1940 – 15 May 2014) was a Belgian politician who served as the prime minister of Belgium from 1992 until 1999. During his political career, he was nicknamed "The Plumber" and "The Minesweep ...

'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 Groen (English: Green; nl, Groen, ), founded as Agalev (see Name below), is a green Flemish political party in Belgium. Its French-speaking equivalent is Ecolo; the two parties maintain close relations with each other. Party history Before ...

and

Ecolo Ecolo, officially Écologistes Confédérés pour l'organisation de luttes originales'', (English: Confederate Ecologists for the Organisation of Original Struggles)'' is a French-speaking political party in Belgium based on green politics. The ...

). It was the first liberal-led government since 1938, and the first since 1958 that didn't include a Christian Democratic party.

Chamber of Representatives

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Liberalism Liberalism is a political and moral philosophy based on the rights of the individual, liberty, consent of the governed, political equality and equality before the law."political rationalism, hostility to autocracy, cultural distaste for c ...

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Guy Verhofstadt Guy Maurice Marie Louise Verhofstadt (; ; born 11 April 1953) is a Belgian politician who was the leader of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe from 2009 to 2019, and has been a member of the European Parliament (MEP) from Belgium ...

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Christian democracy Christian democracy (sometimes named Centrist democracy) is a political ideology that emerged in 19th-century Europe under the influence of Catholic social teaching and neo-Calvinism. It was conceived as a combination of modern democratic ...

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Social democracy Social democracy is a Political philosophy, political, Social philosophy, social, and economic philosophy within socialism that supports Democracy, political and economic democracy. As a policy regime, it is described by academics as advocati ...

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Elio Di Rupo Elio Di Rupo (; born 18 July 1951) is a Belgian politician who has served as the minister-president of Wallonia since 2019. He is affiliated with the Socialist Party (Belgium), Socialist Party. Di Rupo previously served as the prime minister of ...

, 631,653 , 10.16 , 1.71 , , 19 , 2 , - style="text-align:right;" , , style="text-align:left;" , Liberal Reformist Party (PRL) +

Democratic Front of Francophones Democrat, Democrats, or Democratic may refer to: Politics *A proponent of democracy, or democratic government; a form of government involving rule by the people. *A member of a Democratic Party: **Democratic Party (United States) (D) **Democratic ...

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Louis Michel Louis Michel (born 2 September 1947) is a Belgian politician. He served in the government of Belgium as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1999 to 2004 and was European Commissioner for Development and Humanitarian Aid from 2004 to 2009. From 20 ...

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Flemish Block ''Vlaams Blok'' ( en, Flemish Block, or VB) was the name of a Belgian far-right and secessionist political party with an anti-immigration platform.Erk, 2005, pp. 493-502. Its ideologies embraced Flemish nationalism, calling for the independence ...

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Flemish nationalism The Flemish Movement ( nl, Vlaamse Beweging) is an umbrella term which encompasses various political groups in the Belgian region of Flanders and, less commonly, in French Flanders. Ideologically, it encompasses groups which have sought to promo ...

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Frank Vanhecke Frank Arthur Hyppolite Vanhecke (born 30 May 1959) is a Belgian politician. Vanhecke started his career in Belgian politics as a student by joining the Jong Studentenverbond and later the Nationalistische Studentenvereniging. He gave up his me ...

, 613,399 , 9.87 , 2.04 , , 15 , 4 , - style="text-align:right;" , , style="text-align:left;" , Socialist Party (Flanders) (SP) , style="text-align:left;" ,

, style="text-align:left;" , Fred Erdman , 593,372 , 9.55 , 3.01 , , 14 , 6 , - style="text-align:right;" , , style="text-align:left;" , Confederated Ecologists (ECOLO) , style="text-align:left;" ,

Green politics Green politics, or ecopolitics, is a political ideology that aims to foster an ecologically sustainable society often, but not always, rooted in environmentalism, nonviolence, social justice and grassroots democracy. Wall 2010. p. 12-13. It b ...

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Isabelle Durant Isabelle Annie J. Durant (born 4 September 1954) is a Belgian politician of the Ecolo party who served as Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) from 2017 to 2021 and as acting Secretary-General ...

, 457,281 , 7.36 , 3.35 , , 11 , 5 , - style="text-align:right;" , , style="text-align:left;" , Living Differently (AGALEV) , style="text-align:left;" ,

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Jos Geysels Josephus "Jos" Elisabeth A. M. Geysels (born 20 September 1952 in Turnhout) is a former Belgian (Flemish) politician, and former Representative in the Belgian Chamber for the ecologist party Agalev for which he was party chairman. He resigned ...

, 434,449 , 6.99 , 2.56 , , 9 , 4 , - style="text-align:right;" , , style="text-align:left;" , Christian Social Party (PSC) , style="text-align:left;" ,

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Philippe Maystadt Philippe M.P.J. Maystadt (14 March 1948 – 7 December 2017) was a Belgian politician who served as Minister for Economic Affairs, Minister of Finance, and Deputy Prime Minister. He was President of the European Investment Bank (EIB) from 2000 to ...

, 365,318 , 5.88 , 1.85 , , 10 , 2 , - style="text-align:right;" , , style="text-align:left;" , People's Union–ID (VU-ID) , style="text-align:left;" ,

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Patrik Vankrunkelsven Patrick Jules Maria Vankrunkelsven (born 2 May 1957), is a Belgian physician, professor of medicine and politician. He obtained an MD and PhD from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Leuven, Belgium). Political career He was president of the Vo ...

, 345,576 , 5.56 , 0.86 , , 8 , 3 , - style="text-align:right;" , , style="text-align:left;" , National Front (FN) , style="text-align:left;" ,

Nationalism Nationalism is an idea and movement that holds that the nation should be congruent with the State (polity), state. As a movement, nationalism tends to promote the interests of a particular nation (as in a in-group and out-group, group of peo ...

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Vivant Vivant is a small social-liberal political party in Belgium founded by millionaire Roland Duchâtelet. In the regional elections in June 2004, the party formed a strategic alliance with the Flemish Liberals and Democrats (VLD). Both parties are ...

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Roland Duchâtelet Roland Duchâtelet (; born 14 November 1946) is a Belgian businessman and politician. He is the owner of football clubs Carl Zeiss Jena and Újpest. He is the founder of the social-liberal political party Vivant in Belgium. Business In 1990 ...

, 130,701 , 2.10 , ''new'' , — , — , — , - , - style="text-align:right;" , style="width:10px;background-color:white;text-align:center;" , , style="text-align:left;" colspan=3 , Others (parties that received less than 1% of the national vote) , 157,389 , 2.53 , — , — , — , — , - style="background-color:#E9E9E9" , style="text-align:right;" colspan="4" , Valid votes , 6,214,074 , 93.44 , colspan="4" rowspan="2" , , - style="background-color:#E9E9E9" , style="text-align:right;" colspan="4" , Blank and invalid votes , 435,941 , 6.56 , - style="background-color:#E9E9E9" , style="text-align:right;" colspan="4" , Totals , 6,650,015 , 100.00 , — , — , 150 , — , - style="background-color:#E9E9E9" , colspan="4" , Electorate and voter turnout , 7,343,464 , 90.56 , colspan="4" , , - , style="text-align:left;" colspan=10 , Source
1999 Federal Election

Senate

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(''Vlaamse Liberalen en Democraten'') , , 952,116 , , , , 15.4 , , , , 6 , , ± 0 , - style="text-align:right;" , , style="text-align:left;" , Christian People's Party (''Christelijke Volkspartij'') , , 913,508 , , , , 14.7 , , , , 6 , , - 1 , - style="text-align:right;" , , style="text-align:left;" , Liberal Reformist Party–

(''PRL–FDF'') , , 654,961 , , , , 10.6 , , , , 5 , , ± 0 , - style="text-align:right;" , , style="text-align:left;" , Socialist Party (Wallonia) (''Parti Socialiste'') , , 597,890 , , , , 9.7 , , , , 4 , , - 1 , - style="text-align:right;" , , style="text-align:left;" ,

(''Vlaams Blok'') , , 583,208 , , , , 9.4 , , , , 4 , , + 1 , - style="text-align:right;" , , style="text-align:left;" , Socialist Party (Flanders) (''Socialistische Partij'') , , 550,657 , , , , 8.9 , , , , 4 , , - 2 , - style="text-align:right;" , , style="text-align:left;" ,

, , 458,658 , , , , 7.4 , , , , 3 , , + 1 , - style="text-align:right;" , , style="text-align:left;" ,

, , 438,931 , , , , 7.1 , , , , 3 , , + 2 , - style="text-align:right;" , , style="text-align:left;" , Christian Social Party (''Parti Social Chrétien'') , , 374,002 , , , , 6.0 , , , , 3 , , ± 0 , - style="text-align:right;" , , style="text-align:left;" , VU&ID , , 317,830 , , , , 5.1 , , , , 2 , , ± 0 , - style="text-align:right;" , , style="text-align:left;" , Vivant (total) , , 123,498 , , , , 2.0 , , , , – , , , - style="text-align:right;" , , style="text-align:left;" , National Front (''Front National'') , , 92,924 , , , , 1.5 , , , , – , , , - style="text-align:right;" , , , style="text-align:left;" , Workers Party of Belgium (total) , , 35,493 , , , , 0.6 , , , , – , , , - style="text-align:right;" , , , style="text-align:left;" , FNB (''Front Nouveau de Belgique'') , , 23,382 , , , , 0.4 , , , , – , , , - style="text-align:right;" , , , style="text-align:left;" ,

Communist Party A communist party is a political party that seeks to realize the socio-economic goals of communism. The term ''communist party'' was popularized by the title of ''The Manifesto of the Communist Party'' (1848) by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. A ...

(''Parti Communiste'') , , 21,991 , , , , 0.4 , , , , – , , , - style="text-align:right;" , , , style="text-align:left;" , PNPB (

Paul Marchal Paul Alfred Daniel Marchal (27 September 1862, Paris, – 2 March 1942, Paris) was a French entomologist. He was president of the French Entomological Society (''Société entomologique de France'') in 1907. He was president of the French Zoo ...

) , , 26,124 , , , , 0.5 , , , , – , , , - style="text-align:right;" , , , style="text-align:left;" , Other , , 29,198 , , — , , 0.5 , , — , , — , , — , - style="text-align:right;background-color:#E9E9E9" , style="text-align:left;" colspan="2" , Total (turnout 90.6%) , width="75" , 6,194,371 , width="30" , , width="30" , 100 , width="30" , , width="30" , 40 , width="30" , , - , style="text-align:left;" colspan=11 , Source
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