Country: | Belgium |
Type: | parliamentary |
Ongoing: | no |
Previous Election: | 1991 Belgian general election |
Previous Year: | 1991 |
Next Election: | 1999 Belgian federal election |
Next Year: | 1999 |
Seats For Election: | All 150 seats in the Chamber of Representatives 40 of 71 seats in the Senate |
Majority Seats: | respectively 76 and 36 |
Election Date: | 21 May 1995 |
Leader1: | Jean-Luc Dehaene |
Leader Since1: | Candidate for PM |
Party1: | Christian People's Party (Belgium) |
Last Election1: | 39 seats, 16.8% |
Seats1: | 29 |
Seat Change1: | 10 |
Popular Vote1: | 1,042,933 |
Percentage1: | 17.2% |
Swing1: | 0.4% |
Leader2: | Guy Verhofstadt |
Leader Since2: | 1992 |
Party2: | Flemish Liberals and Democrats |
Last Election2: | 26 seats, 12.0% |
Seats2: | 21 |
Seat Change2: | 5 |
Popular Vote2: | 798,363 |
Percentage2: | 13.1% |
Swing2: | 1.1% |
Image3: | PS |
Leader3: | Philippe Busquin |
Leader Since3: | 1992 |
Party3: | Socialist Party (francophone Belgium) |
Last Election3: | 35 seats, 13.5% |
Seats3: | 21 |
Seat Change3: | 14 |
Popular Vote3: | 720.819 |
Percentage3: | 11.9% |
Swing3: | 1.6% |
Colour4: | FF0000 |
Leader4: | Louis Tobback |
Leader Since4: | 1994 |
Party4: | Socialist Party (Flanders) |
Last Election4: | 28 seats, 12.0% |
Seats4: | 20 |
Seat Change4: | 8 |
Popular Vote4: | 762.444 |
Percentage4: | 12.6% |
Swing4: | 0.6% |
Leader5: | Louis Michel |
Leader Since5: | 1995 |
Party5: | Liberal Reformist Party + Democratic Front of Francophones |
Last Election5: | 23 seats, 9.6% |
Seats5: | 18 |
Seat Change5: | 5 |
Popular Vote5: | 623.250 |
Percentage5: | 10.1% |
Swing5: | 0.5% |
Leader6: | GĂ©rard Deprez |
Leader Since6: | 1981 |
Party6: | Christian Social Party (Wallonia) |
Last Election6: | 18 seats, 7.7% |
Seats6: | 12 |
Seat Change6: | 6 |
Popular Vote6: | 469.101 |
Percentage6: | 7.7% |
Government | |
Posttitle: | Government after election |
Before Election: | Dehaene I |
Before Party: | CVP-PSC-PS-SP |
After Election: | Dehaene II |
After Party: | CVP-PSC-PS-SP |
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.
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).