1999 European Parliament election in the Netherlands
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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:
Electoral alliances
No lists formed an electoral alliance.
Numbering of the candidates list
The official order and names of candidate lists: Template:European Parliament election, 1999 (Netherlands) candidate lists
Results
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 |
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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 |
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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 |
- CDA – European People's Party is awarded 1 seat.
- GreenLeft is awarded 1 seat.
- SGP, GPV and RPF is awarded 1 seat.
- D66 is awarded 1 seat.
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
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]
- Hanja Maij-Weggen (top candidate), by 591,505 votes
- Wim van Velzen, by 103,743 votes
- Ria Oomen-Ruijten, by 99,584 votes
- Albert Jan Maat, by 34,622 votes
- Arie Oostlander, by 17,628 votes
- Maria Martens, by 16,254 votes
- Karla Peijs, by 11,975 votes
- Bartho Pronk, by 7,929 votes
- Bert Doorn, by 3,598 votes
- Max van den Berg (top candidate), by 584,167 votes
- Ieke van den Burg, by 55,016 votes
- Joke Swiebel, by 12,554 votes
- Jan Marinus Wiersma, by 9,753 votes
- Michiel van Hulten, by 5,710 votes
- Dorette Corbey, by 4,898 votes
People's Party for Freedom and Democracy
- Jan-Kees Wiebenga (top candidate), by 535,904 votes
- Elly Plooij-van Gorsel, by 45,855 votes
- Toine Manders, by 14,237 votes
- Jan Mulder, by 13,825 votes
- Marieke Sanders-ten Holte, by 11,670 votes
- Jules Maaten, by 4,341 votes
- Joost Lagendijk (top candidate), by 245,642 votes
- Kathalijne Buitenweg, by 90,549 votes
- Theo Bouwman, by 6,012 votes
- Alexander de Roo, by 4,343 votes
- Hans Blokland (GPV) (top candidate), by 245,214 votes
- Bas Belder (SGP), by 20,491 votes
- Rijk van Dam (RPF), by 10,630 votes
- Lousewies van der Laan (top candidate), by 143,009 votes
- Bob van den Bos, by 8,712 votes
- 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.
Template:European Parliament MEPs, 1999-2004 (Netherlands)
References
- ^ Dutch MEPs since 1952 Parlementair Documentatie Centrum van de Universiteit Leiden (Dutch)