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.
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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:
No lists formed an electoral alliance.
The official order and names of candidate lists:
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Lists | ||||||
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List | English translation | List name (Dutch) | ||||
1 | list | CDA - European People's Party | CDA – Europese Volkspartij | |||
2 | list | P.v.d.A./European Social Democrats | P.v.d.A./Europese Sociaaldemocraten | |||
3 | list | VVD - European Liberal-Democrats | VVD – Europese Liberaal-Democraten | |||
4 | list | D66 | ||||
5 | list | SGP, GPV and RPF | SGP, GPV en RPF | |||
6 | list | GREENLEFT | GROENLINKS | |||
7 | list | CD/Conservative Democrats | CD/Conservatieve Democraten | |||
8 | list | List Sala | Lijst Sala | |||
9 | list | European Electorate Platform Netherlands | Europees Verkiezers Platform Nederland | |||
10 | list | SP (Socialist Party) | SP (Socialistische Partij) | |||
11 | list | THE EUROPEAN PARTY | DE EUROPESE PARTIJ |
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.
Party | Votes | % | Seats | +/– | |
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Christian Democratic Appeal | 954,898 | 26.94 | 9 | –1 | |
Labour Party | 712,929 | 20.11 | 6 | –2 | |
People's Party for Freedom and Democracy | 698,050 | 19.69 | 6 | 0 | |
GroenLinks | 419,869 | 11.85 | 4 | +3 | |
SGP–GPV–RPF | 309,612 | 8.74 | 3 | +1 | |
Democrats 66 | 205,623 | 5.80 | 2 | –2 | |
Socialist Party | 178,642 | 5.04 | 1 | +1 | |
European Party | 23,231 | 0.66 | 0 | New | |
Centre Democrats | 17,740 | 0.50 | 0 | 0 | |
European Electorate Platform Netherlands | 13,234 | 0.37 | 0 | New | |
List Sala | 10,580 | 0.30 | 0 | New | |
Total | 3,544,408 | 100.00 | 31 | 0 | |
Valid votes | 3,544,408 | 99.54 | |||
Invalid/blank votes | 16,356 | 0.46 | |||
Total votes | 3,560,764 | 100.00 | |||
Registered voters/turnout | 11,862,864 | 30.02 | |||
Source: Kiesraad |
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
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 |
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 |
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.
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European group | Seats 1994 | Seats 1999 | Change | ||||||||
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European People's Party–European Democrats | EPP-ED | 10 | 9 | 1 | |||||||
European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party | ELDR | 10 | 8 | 2 | |||||||
Party of European Socialists | PES | 8 | 6 | 2 | |||||||
The Greens–European Free Alliance | Greens-EFA | 1 | 4 | 3 | |||||||
Europe of Democracies and Diversities | EDD | 2 | 3 | 1 | |||||||
European United Left–Nordic Green Left | EUL-NGL | 0 | 1 | 1 | |||||||
Non-Inscrits | NI | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
31 | 31 | 0 |
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]
People's Party for Freedom and Democracy
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 | Sex | National party | EP Group | Period | Preference vote | ||||||
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Bas Belder | Male | Reformed Political Party | EDD | 20 July 1999 – 2 July 2019[2] | 20,491 | ||||||
Max van den Berg | Male | Labour Party | PES | 20 July 1999 – 1 September 2007[3] | 584,167 | ||||||
Hans Blokland | Male | Reformed Political Alliance | EDD | 19 July 1994 – 14 July 2009[4] | 245,214 | ||||||
Johanna Boogerd-Quaak | Female | Democrats 66 | ELDR | 5 February 2003 – 20 July 2004[5] | 10,992 | ||||||
Bob van den Bos | Male | Democrats 66 | ELDR | 20 July 1999 – 20 July 2004[6] | 8,712 | ||||||
Theo Bouwman | Male | GreenLeft | G–EFA | 20 July 1999 – 20 July 2004[7] | 6,012 | ||||||
Cees Bremmer | Male | Christian Democratic Appeal | EPP–ED | 8 October 2003 – 20 July 2004[8] | 2,956 | ||||||
Kathalijne Buitenweg | Female | GreenLeft | G–EFA | 20 July 1999 – 14 July 2009[9] | 90,549 | ||||||
Ieke van den Burg | Female | Labour Party | PES | 20 July 1999 – 14 July 2009[10] | 55,016 | ||||||
Dorette Corbey | Female | Labour Party | PES | 20 July 1999 – 14 July 2009[4] | 4,898 | ||||||
Rijk van Dam | Male | Reformatory Political Federation | EDD | September 1997 – 20 July 2004[11] | 10,630 | ||||||
Bert Doorn | Male | Christian Democratic Appeal | EPP–ED | 20 July 1999 – 14 July 2009[12] | 3,598 | ||||||
Elly Plooij-van Gorsel | Female | People's Party for Freedom and Democracy | ELDR | 19 July 1994 – 20 July 2004[13] | 45,855 | ||||||
Marieke Sanders-ten Holte | Female | People's Party for Freedom and Democracy | ELDR | 20 July 1999 – 20 July 2004[14] | 45,855 | ||||||
Michiel van Hulten | Male | Labour Party | PES | 20 July 1999 – 20 July 2004[15] | 5,710 | ||||||
Lousewies van der Laan | Female | Democrats 66 | ELDR | 20 July 1999 – 30 January 2003[16] | 143,009 | ||||||
Joost Lagendijk | Male | GreenLeft | G–EFA | 1 September 1998 – 14 July 2009[17] | 245,642 | ||||||
Albert Jan Maat | Male | Christian Democratic Appeal | EPP–ED | 20 July 1999 – 10 April 2007[18] | 34,622 | ||||||
Jules Maaten | Male | People's Party for Freedom and Democracy | ELDR | 20 July 1999 – 14 July 2009[19] | 4,341 | ||||||
Hanja Maij-Weggen | Female | Christian Democratic Appeal | EPP–ED | 19 July 1994 – 1 October 2003[20] | 591,505 | ||||||
Toine Manders | Male | People's Party for Freedom and Democracy | ELDR | 20 July 1999 – 1 July 2014 2 July 2019 – Present[21] |
14,237 | ||||||
Maria Martens | Female | Christian Democratic Appeal | EPP–ED | 20 July 1999 – 14 July 2009[22] | 16,254 | ||||||
Erik Meijer | Male | Socialist Party | EUL–NGL | 20 July 1999 – 14 July 2009[23] | 124,800 | ||||||
Jan Mulder | Male | People's Party for Freedom and Democracy | ELDR | 19 July 1994 – 14 July 2009 22 June 2010 – 1 July 2014[24] |
13,825 | ||||||
Ria Oomen-Ruijten | Female | Christian Democratic Appeal | EPP–ED | 25 July 1989 – 1 July 2014[25] | 99,584 | ||||||
Arie Oostlander | Male | Christian Democratic Appeal | EPP–ED | 25 July 1989 – 20 July 2004[26] | 17,628 | ||||||
Karla Peijs | Female | Christian Democratic Appeal | EPP–ED | 25 July 1989 – 27 May 2003[27] | 11,975 | ||||||
Peter Pex | Male | Christian Democratic Appeal | EPP–ED | 11 June 2003 – 20 July 2004[28] | 8,380 | ||||||
Bartho Pronk | Male | Christian Democratic Appeal | EPP–ED | 20 November 1989 – 20 July 2004[29] | 7,929 | ||||||
Alexander de Roo | Male | GreenLeft | G–EFA | 20 July 1999 – 20 July 2004[30] | 4,343 | ||||||
Joke Swiebel | Female | Labour Party | PES | 20 July 1999 – 20 July 2004[31] | 12,554 | ||||||
Wim van Velzen | Male | Christian Democratic Appeal | EPP–ED | 19 July 1994 – 20 July 2004[32] | 103,743 | ||||||
Herman Vermeer | Male | People's Party for Freedom and Democracy | ELDR | 12 November 2001 – 20 July 2004[33] | 6,535 | ||||||
Jan-Kees Wiebenga | Male | People's Party for Freedom and Democracy | ELDR | 19 July 1994 – October 2001[34] | 535,904 | ||||||
Jan Marinus Wiersma | Male | Labour Party | PES | 19 July 1994 – 14 July 2009[35] | 9,753 | ||||||
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