Candidates elected out of order: the true personalized candidates

*ECPR General Conference, Prague (Czech Rep.), 7-10 Sept. 2016. **Abstract** This study aims to analyse a dimension of personalization, namely the candidates elected out of order. Covering a time span of approximately 20 years, from 1995 until 2014 at the federal level in Belgium. This research is based on the official list results, in order to see if (A) there is an increase in the candidates elected out of order, as well as (B) what we can tell about their profile. The personalization of politics has been quite in vogue in the last years, but scholars are still unable to find common ground when it comes to both its measures and conceptualization. This paper aims to bring a new way to measure the personalization: the elected out of order.