1999 European Parliament election in the Netherlands

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1999 European Parliament election in the Netherlands
← 1994 10 June 1999 2004 →
31 seats to the European Parliament
Turnout 30.02%
  First party Second party Third party
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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
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Leader Joost Lagendijk Hans Blokland Lousewies van der Laan
Party GL Reformed Political Party – Reformatory Political Federation – Reformed Political League 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
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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
Members of the
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An election of Members of the European Parliament representing Netherlands constituency for the 1999–2004 term of the European Parliament was held on 10 June 1999. It was part of the wider 1999 European election. 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

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

Party lists in the 1999 European Parliament election in the Netherlands

Results

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Further information: Netherlands (European Parliament constituency)

Voter turnout was a record low for a national election of just 30.02%. 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.

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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

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.

Summary of the 10 June 1999 European Parliament elections in the Netherlands
← 1994 1999 2004 →
European group Seats 1994 Seats 1999 Change
European People's Party–European Democrats EPP-ED 10 9 1 Decrease
European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party ELDR 10 8 2 Decrease
Party of European Socialists PES 8 6 2 Decrease
The Greens–European Free Alliance Greens-EFA 1 4 3 Increase
Europe of Democracies and Diversities EDD 2 3 1 Increase
European United Left–Nordic Green Left EUL-NGL 0 1 1 Increase
Non-Inscrits NI 0 0 0 Steady
31 31 0 Steady

Elected members

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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.

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Name National party EP Group Period
Bas Belder SGP, RPF and GPV      EDD 20 July 1999
Max van den Berg      Labour Party      PES 20 July 1999 – 1 September 2007
Hans Blokland SGP, RPF and GPV      EDD 19 July 1994 – 14 July 2009
Johanna Boogerd-Quaak      Democrats 66      ELDR 5 februari 2003 – 20 july 2004
Bob van den Bos      Democrats 66      ELDR 20 July 1999 – 20 July 2004
Theo Bouwman      GreenLeft      G–EFA 20 July 1999 – 20 July 2004
Cees Bremmer      Christian Democratic Appeal      EPP–ED 8 October 2003 – 20 July 2004
Kathalijne Buitenweg      GreenLeft      G–EFA 20 July 1999 – 14 July 2009
Ieke van den Burg      Labour Party      PES 20 July 1999 – 14 July 2009
Dorette Corbey      Labour Party      PES 20 July 1999 – 14 July 2009
Rijk van Dam SGP, RPF and GPV      EDD September 1997 – 20 July 2004
Bert Doorn      Christian Democratic Appeal      EPP–ED 20 July 1999 – 14 July 2009
Elly Plooij-van Gorsel      People's Party for Freedom and Democracy      ELDR 19 July 1994 – 20 July 2004
Marieke Sanders-ten Holte      People's Party for Freedom and Democracy      ELDR 20 July 1999 – 20 July 2004
Michiel van Hulten      Labour Party      PES 20 July 1999 – 20 July 2004
Lousewies van der Laan      Democrats 66      ELDR 20 July 1999 – 30 January 2003
Joost Lagendijk      GreenLeft      G–EFA 1 September 1998 – 14 July 2009
Albert-Jan Maat      Christian Democratic Appeal      EPP–ED 20 July 1999 – 10 April 2007
Jules Maaten      People's Party for Freedom and Democracy      ELDR 20 July 1999 – 14 July 2009
Hanja Maij-Weggen      Christian Democratic Appeal      EPP–ED 19 July 1994 – 1 October 2003
Toine Manders      People's Party for Freedom and Democracy      ELDR 20 July 1999
Maria Martens      Christian Democratic Appeal      EPP–ED 20 July 1999 – 14 July 2009
Erik Meijer      Socialist Party      EUL–NGL 20 July 1999 – 14 July 2009
Jan Mulder      People's Party for Freedom and Democracy      ELDR 19 July 1994 – 14 July 2009
Ria Oomen-Ruijten      Christian Democratic Appeal      EPP–ED 25 July 1989
Arie Oostlander      Christian Democratic Appeal      EPP–ED 25 July 1989 – 20 July 2004
Karla Peijs      Christian Democratic Appeal      EPP–ED 25 July 1989 – 27 May 2003
Peter Pex      Christian Democratic Appeal      EPP–ED 11 june 2003 – 20 july 2004
Bartho Pronk      Christian Democratic Appeal      EPP–ED 20 November 1989 – 20 July 2004
Alexander de Roo      GreenLeft      G–EFA 20 July 1999 – 20 July 2004
Joke Swiebel      Labour Party      PES 20 July 1999 – 20 July 2004
Wim van Velzen      Christian Democratic Appeal      EPP–ED 19 July 1994 – 20 July 2004
Herman Vermeer      People's Party for Freedom and Democracy      ELDR 12 November 2001 – 20 july 2004
Jan-Kees Wiebenga      People's Party for Freedom and Democracy      ELDR 19 July 1994 – October 2001
Jan Marinus Wiersma      Labour Party      PES 19 July 1994 – 14 July 2009
Source: [2]


References

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