List of members of the Senate of Belgium, 2014–2019 explained

This is a list of members of the Belgian Senate, arranged alphabetically by type, during the 54th legislature from 2014 until 2019. This was the first legislature following the sixth Belgian state reform, which abolished direct elections for the Senate and reduced its powers.

Seat division

Party	Seats by type		Total
Party	Community	Co-opted	Total
New Flemish Alliance (N-VA)	10	2	12
Socialist Party (PS)	8	1	9
Christian Democratic and Flemish (CD&V)	7	1	8
Reformist Movement (MR)	7	1	8
Open Flemish Liberals and Democrats (Open Vld)	4	1	5
Socialist Party–Different (sp.a)	4	1	5
Humanist Democratic Centre (cdH)	3	1	4
	2	1	3
Green (Groen)	2	1	3
Flemish Interest (Vlaams Belang)	2	—	2
German-speaking Community	1	—	1
		50	10	60

List

Senator	Party	Language group	Appointment
	sp.a	Dutch	Co-opted
	MR	French	Co-opted
	cdH	French	Co-opted
	N-VA	Dutch	Co-opted
	N-VA	Dutch	By and from the Flemish Parliament
	MR	French	By and from the French language group of the Parliament of the Brussels-Capital Region
	CD&V	Dutch	By and from the Flemish Parliament
	Open Vld	Dutch	By and from the Flemish Parliament
	CD&V	Dutch	By and from the Flemish Parliament
	N-VA	Dutch	By and from the Flemish Parliament
	Open Vld	Dutch	By and from the Flemish Parliament
	CD&V	Dutch	By and from the Flemish Parliament
	MR	French	By and from the Parliament of the French Community
	Open Vld	Dutch	By and from the Flemish Parliament
	N-VA	Dutch	By and from the Flemish Parliament
	Groen	Dutch	Co-opted
	MR	French	By and from the Walloon Parliament
	cdH	French	By and from the Walloon Parliament
	MR	French	By and from the Parliament of the French Community
	MR	French	By and from the Walloon Parliament
	Vlaams Belang	Dutch	By and from the Flemish Parliament
	PS	French	By and from the Parliament of the French Community
	MR	French	By and from the Parliament of the French Community
	CD&V	Dutch	By and from the Flemish Parliament
	PS	French	By and from the Walloon Parliament
Brigitte Grouwels¹	CD&V	Dutch	By the Flemish Parliament from the Dutch language group of the Parliament of the Brussels-Capital Region
	Ecolo	French	By and from the Walloon Parliament
	PS	French	By and from the French language group of the Parliament of the Brussels-Capital Region
	PS	French	Co-opted
	PS	French	By and from the Walloon Parliament
	sp.a	Dutch	By and from the Flemish Parliament
	N-VA	Dutch	By and from the Flemish Parliament
	cdH	French	By and from the Parliament of the French Community
	Groen	Dutch	By and from the Flemish Parliament
		German	By and from the Parliament of the German-speaking Community
	PS	French	By and from the Parliament of the French Community
	N-VA	Dutch	By and from the Flemish Parliament
	N-VA	Dutch	By and from the Flemish Parliament
	PS	French	By and from the Parliament of the French Community
	Ecolo	French	By and from the Parliament of the French Community
	sp.a	Dutch	By and from the Flemish Parliament
	N-VA	Dutch	By and from the Flemish Parliament
	Open Vld	Dutch	By and from the Flemish Parliament
	Ecolo	French	Co-opted
	sp.a	Dutch	By and from the Flemish Parliament
	Groen	Dutch	By and from the Flemish Parliament
	N-VA	Dutch	Co-opted
	Vlaams Belang	Dutch	By and from the Flemish Parliament
	sp.a	Dutch	By and from the Flemish Parliament
	CD&V	Dutch	By and from the Flemish Parliament
	CD&V	Dutch	Co-opted
	N-VA	Dutch	By and from the Flemish Parliament
	N-VA	Dutch	By and from the Flemish Parliament
	Open Vld	Dutch	Co-opted
	CD&V	Dutch	By and from the Flemish Parliament
	PS	French	By and from the Parliament of the French Community
	MR	French	By and from the Walloon Parliament
	cdH	French	By and from the Parliament of the French Community
	N-VA	Dutch	By and from the Flemish Parliament
	PS	French	By and from the Walloon Parliament

Changes during the legislature

Bianca Debaets (CD&V), who became in July 2014 state secretary in the Brussels Government, was replaced by Brigitte Grouwels (the previous CD&V member of the Brussels Government) as senator.
Geert Bourgeois, Philippe Muyters and Ben Weyts (N-VA) became ministers of the Flemish Government in July 2014 and were therefore replaced as senators for the Flemish Parliament by respectively Piet De Bruyn, Andries Gryffroy and Jan Van Esbroeck.
Christophe Lacroix (PS) became minister of the Walloon Government juli 2014 and was therefore replaced as co-opted senator by Philippe Mahoux.
Elke Sleurs (N-VA) became state-secretary in the federal government Michel Government and will therefore be replaced as senator for the Flemish Parliament, with the successor still to be named.

Bureau

President and Vice-Presidents

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	Office	Senator	Party

	First Vice-President
	Second Vice-President
	Third Vice-President