1999 European Parliament election in the Netherlands

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1999 European Parliament election in the Netherlands
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31 seats to the European Parliament
Turnout30.02%
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Hanja Maij-Weggen Max van den Berg Jan-Kees Wiebenga
Party CDA PvdA VVD
Alliance EPP-ED PES ELDR
Seats won
9 / 31
6 / 31
6 / 31
Seat change 1 Decrease 2 Decrease 0 Steady
Popular vote 954,898 712,929 698,050
Percentage 26.94% 20.11% 19.69%
Swing 3.9% Decrease 2.8% Decrease 2.2% Increase
  Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party
 
Leader Joost Lagendijk Hans Blokland Lousewies van der Laan
Party GL SGP/RPF/GPV D66
Alliance Greens-EFA EDD ELDR
Seats won
4 / 31
3 / 31
2 / 31
Seat change 3 Increase 1 Increase 2 Decrease
Popular vote 419,869 309,612 205,623
Percentage 11.85% 8.74% 5.80%
Swing 8.1% Increase 0.9% Increase 5.9% Decrease
  Seventh party
 
Leader Erik Meijer
Party SP
Alliance EUL/NGL
Seats won
1 / 31
Seat change 1 Increase
Popular vote 178,642
Percentage 5.04%
Swing 3.7 Increase
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The European Parliament election of 1999 in the Netherlands was the election of MEP representing Netherlands constituency for the 1999–2004 term of the European Parliament. It was part of the wider 1999 European election. It was held on 10 June 1999. Eleven parties competed in a D'Hondt type election for 31 seats.

Background

Combined lists

Several parties combined in one list to take part in this European Election and increase their chance on a seat in the European Parliament. These combined lists are:

  1. SGP, RPF and GPV

Electoral alliances

No lists formed an electoral alliance.

Numbering of the candidates list

Further information: Party lists in the European Parliament election, 1999 (Netherlands)

The official order and names of candidate lists: Template:European Parliament election, 1999 (Netherlands) candidate lists

Results

Further information: Netherlands (European Parliament constituency)

Turnout

The voter turnout was 30.02%, a lot lower, than the turnout in 1994. (35.69%) A total of 11,862,864 people were entitled to vote. Of these 3,560,764 did so.

Seat assignment

Electoral quota

The electoral quota is the number of votes needed for one seat. It is the total valid number of votes divided by the number of seats.
For this election it was 3,544,408 valid votes, divided by 31 seats.
The electoral quota was established as: 114,335

Assigning full seats

Full seats are assigned by number of votes divided by the electoral quota. Electoral alliances are marked as a letter, instead of a number. Any seats left over are not yet assigned to a specific party.

List Party's Number of votes Electoral quota Seats
1 Christian Democratic Appeal 954,898 114,335 8
2 Labour Party 712,929 114,335 6
3 People's Party for Freedom and Democracy 698,050 114,335 6
4 Democrats 66 205,623 114,335 1
5 SGP, GPV and RPF 309,612 114,335 2
6 GreenLeft 419,869 114,335 3
7 Centre Democrats 17,740 114,335 0
8 List Sala 10,580 114,335 0
9 European Electorate Platform Netherlands 13,234 114,335 0
10 Socialist Party 178,642 114,335 1
11 The European Party 23,231 114,335 0
Total 3,544,408 27
Total seats 31
Remaining seats 4

Remainder seats

The remaining, or left over, seats are awarded sequentially to the lists with the highest average number of votes per seat. Only lists that reached the electoral quota are eligible.

List Remainder seat 1 Remainder seat 2 Remainder seat 3 Remainder seat 4 Total
1 106,099 95,489 95,489 95,489 1
2 101,847 101,847 101,847 101,847 0
3 99,721 99,721 99,721 99,721 0
4 102,811 102,811 102,811 102,811 1
5 103,204 103,204 103,204 77,403 1
6 104,967 104,967 83,973 83,973 1
10 89,321 89,321 89,321 89,321 0
Assigned to 1 6 5 4

Final results

With only 30 percent of the population showing up, the voter turnout hit an all-time low for Dutch elections on the national level. In the election the GreenLeft performed particularly well quadrupling their seats from one to four. The Socialist Party won its first seat. These gains were made at the cost of the Christian Democratic Appeal, Democrats 66 and the PvdA, which lost one, two and two seats respectively. Template:European Parliament election, 1999 (Netherlands) results

European groups

The EPP-ED group becomes the biggest group this election despite losing seat. This because the ELDR group in the Netherlands lost 2 seats from the Democrats 66. The EG-EFA group makes a big gain in seat, thanks to the win of GreenLeft. The Socialist Party won EUL-NGL its first seat in the Netherlands. Template:European Parliament election, 1999 (Netherlands) European Groups

Elected members

Further information: List of members of the European Parliament for the Netherlands, 1999–2004

Below are all the elected members of European parliament for the Netherlands. Members elected by preference votes are in bold. To be elected by preference votes, 10% of the electoral quota is needed.

Source:[1]

Christian Democratic Appeal

  1. Hanja Maij-Weggen (top candidate), by 591,505 votes
  2. Wim van Velzen, by 103,743 votes
  3. Ria Oomen-Ruijten, by 99,584 votes
  4. Albert Jan Maat, by 34,622 votes
  5. Arie Oostlander, by 17,628 votes
  6. Maria Martens, by 16,254 votes
  7. Karla Peijs, by 11,975 votes
  8. Bartho Pronk, by 7,929 votes
  9. Bert Doorn, by 3,598 votes

Labour Party

  1. Max van den Berg (top candidate), by 584,167 votes
  2. Ieke van den Burg, by 55,016 votes
  3. Joke Swiebel, by 12,554 votes
  4. Jan Marinus Wiersma, by 9,753 votes
  5. Michiel van Hulten, by 5,710 votes
  6. Dorette Corbey, by 4,898 votes

People's Party for Freedom and Democracy

  1. Jan-Kees Wiebenga (top candidate), by 535,904 votes
  2. Elly Plooij-van Gorsel, by 45,855 votes
  3. Toine Manders, by 14,237 votes
  4. Jan Mulder, by 13,825 votes
  5. Marieke Sanders-ten Holte, by 11,670 votes
  6. Jules Maaten, by 4,341 votes

GreenLeft

  1. Joost Lagendijk (top candidate), by 245,642 votes
  2. Kathalijne Buitenweg, by 90,549 votes
  3. Theo Bouwman, by 6,012 votes
  4. Alexander de Roo, by 4,343 votes

SGP, GPV and RPF

  1. Hans Blokland (GPV) (top candidate), by 245,214 votes
  2. Bas Belder (SGP), by 20,491 votes
  3. Rijk van Dam (RPF), by 10,630 votes

Democrats 66

  1. Lousewies van der Laan (top candidate), by 143,009 votes
  2. Bob van den Bos, by 8,712 votes

Socialist Party

  1. Erik Meijer (top candidate), by 124,800 votes

MEPs period 1999–2004

Below is a list of members of the European Parliament for the period 1999–2004 as a result of this election.

Further information: List of members of the European Parliament for the Netherlands, 1999–2004

Template:European Parliament MEPs, 1999-2004 (Netherlands)

References

  1. ^ Dutch MEPs since 1952 Archived 12 June 2011 at the Wayback Machine Parlementair Documentatie Centrum van de Universiteit Leiden (Dutch)
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