Belgium Members of the Senate

Members of the Belgian Federal Senate, the upper house of the parliament.

This dataset contains persons who serve or have served as members of the Belgian Federal Senate (Belgische Senaat / Sénat de Belgique), the upper house of the federal Parliament. Since the sixth state reform the Senate is composed of 60 senators: 50 designated by the parliaments of the communities and regions (federated-entity senators) and 10 co-opted senators.

The crawler walks the per-legislature member lists published by the Senate, covering the current term and earlier terms within the politically-exposed relevance window. For each senator the dataset captures their full name, political group affiliation, place and date of birth where stated in the published biography, and a link to their profile page.

Data overview 

Entities:
Total273
Searchable126
Targets125
Entity types:
People125
Positions1
Countries:
Belgium126
Publisher:Belgische Senaat · Belgium

The Senate is the upper house of the Federal Parliament of Belgium. Since the sixth state reform (2014) it is composed of 60 senators and acts mainly as a meeting place between the federal state and the federated entities (communities and regions).

Collections:in OpenSanctions Default · Politically Exposed Persons Datasets
Information:www.senate.be
Source data:www.senate.be · HTML
Tags:list.pep
Coverage:added · frequency: weekly
Last processed:
2026-08-01 15:03:01 · v. 20260801150301-kmj
Last change:

Bulk download 

Downloads contain the full set of entities contained in this dataset. You can fetch a simplified tabular form, or detailed, structured data in JSON format. Updated files will be provided once a day at the same location.

File nameExport typeSize
entities.ftm.jsonFollowTheMoney entities126.35 KB
names.txtTarget names text file1.99 KB
senzing.jsonSenzing entity format82.54 KB
targets.nested.jsonTargets as nested JSON186.15 KB
targets.simple.csvTargets as simplified CSV21.53 KB

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Using the API 

You can query the data in this dataset via these API endpoints:

For entity matching, use the /match endpoint:
For full-text search, use the /search endpoint:
Use the Reconciliation API in OpenRefine:

Recent additions 

The following targeted entities have been added to this data source most recently:

AddedNameTypeCountries
Burak NalliPersonBelgium · Türkiye
Antonio CoccioloPersonBelgium
Moussa Diallo ElhadjPersonBelgium
Hajib El HajjajiPersonBelgium
Mauro MichielsenPersonBelgium
Raf Van GestelPersonBelgium
Kelly Van TendelooPersonBelgium
Nawal MaghroudPersonBelgium
Caroline DesallePersonBelgium · Luxembourg
Patricia Van WallePersonBelgium
Debby BurssensPersonBelgium
Marie-Claire MvumbiPersonBelgium
Manu DiericxPersonBelgium
Vincent BlondelPersonBelgium
Jamila AmmiPersonBelgium
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