An election of the Members of the European Parliament from the Netherlands was held on 22 May 2014. This is the 8th time the elections have been held for the European elections in the Netherlands.
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To cast a vote (for the right to vote) in elections for the European Parliament. The voter should:
Non-Dutch citizens who are nationals of other Member States of the European Union may vote at the election of the European Parliament, provided that they:
Dutch nationals abroad have to register to vote for the elections to the European Parliament. Upon registration request, they must indicate whether they are voting by letter, by proxy, or in person at a polling station in the Netherlands. Dutch nationals living in another EU Member State must make a statement that they have not voted in the Member State in which they reside.
Dutch residents of Aruba, Curaçao and Sint Maarten have the same required as other Dutch living abroad. Dutch residents on Bonaire, St. Eustatius, and Saba have no need to register, because these islands are part of the Netherlands. They may, as in other Dutch municipalities, vote at their polling stations.
The number of granted requests for registration in 2014 was 23,799 individuals. This was down from 39,601 registered international voters in 2009. Of these registered voters, 21,017 indicated they wanted to vote by mail, 1,804 requested to vote in the Netherlands itself at a polling station, and 978 wanted to grant power of attorney to someone in the Netherlands.
To stand for election (for the right to be elected), a candidate should:
Non-Dutch candidates from other Member States of the European Union must, in addition, be an actual resident in the Netherlands and not be excluded from the right to be elected in the Member State of which they are a national.
In elections for the European Parliament, the national electoral districts play no role in the nomination. The Netherlands consists of a single electoral district. Political parties, therefore, take part in the elections with only a single candidate list.
Although the national electoral districts do play an important role in processing the election results. The principal polling station of each constituency determines the vote total of the constituency. The results of the vote are recorded in an official document and transferred to the Electoral Council. The Electoral Council, in its role as the central electoral committee, then determines the result of the Netherlands' distribution of seats.
The transfer of the official recorded votes to the Electoral Council took place in 18 constituencies on Monday, 26 May 2014. On Tuesday, 27 May, this transfer occurred for the two remaining constituencies where the municipalities Raalte, Kampen (constituency Zwolle), and Ouder-Amstel, (constituency Haarlem) experimented with a centralised counting of votes.
A voter could cast their vote at a polling station of their choice within their own district. At the casting their vote, they could identify themselves with an identity document which is considered valid even if it has expired within the last 5 years.
Voters who voted in the election for the European Parliament in 2014 from outside the Netherlands experimented with a new model ballot. In this new ballot, parties were allowed to show the party logo above their candidates if it had been registered in advance with the Electoral Council.
On Monday, 14 April 2014, the Electoral Council had a public hearing on the validity of the lists of candidates for the election of the Dutch seats for the European Parliament. The candidate list of the Women's Party was declared invalid because the required deposit to participate (€11,250) was not paid. Furthermore, the following candidates of the Party for the Animals were deleted because their documentation was incomplete and, as such, could not participate in the election:
In the public hearing on April 14, 2014, the Electoral Council numbered the lists of candidates. The parties who had obtained one or more seats in 2009 at the last election to the European Parliament were given a number based on the number of votes that the parties had achieved in the previous election. These totaled 8 candidate lists. The party with the most votes got number 1 and the rest were listed accordingly. The list numbers for the remaining 11 candidates were decided by a lottery.
The official order and names of candidate lists:
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List | English translation | List name (Dutch) | ||||
1 | list | CDA - European People's Party | CDA — Europese Volkspartij | |||
2 | list | PVV (Party for Freedom) | PVV (Partij voor de Vrijheid) | |||
3 | list | P.v.d.A./European Social Democrats | P.v.d.A./Europese Sociaaldemocraten | |||
4 | list | VVD | ||||
5 | list | Democrats 66 (D66) - ALDE | Democraten 66 (D66) - ALDE | |||
6 | list | GreenLeft | GroenLinks | |||
7 | list | SP (Socialist Party) | SP (Socialistische Partij) | |||
8 | list | Christian Union-SGP | ChristenUnie–SGP | |||
9 | list | Article 50 | Artikel 50 | |||
10 | list | IQ, the Rights-Obligations-Party | IQ, de Rechten-Plichten-Partij | |||
11 | list | Pirate Party | Piratenpartij | |||
12 | list | 50PLUS | ||||
13 | list | The Greens | De Groenen | |||
14 | list | Anti EU(ro) Party | Anti EU(ro) Partij | |||
15 | list | Liberal Democratic Party | Liberaal Democratische Partij | |||
16 | list | Jesus Lives | Jezus Leeft | |||
17 | list | ichooseforhonest.eu | ikkiesvooreerlijk.eu | |||
18 | list | Party for the Animals | Partij voor de Dieren | |||
19 | list | Focus and Simplicity | Aandacht en Eenvoud |
A common list consists of 2 distinct parties which are sharing the same candidate list. The Christian Union and SGP formed a common list Christian Union-SGP for the European Parliament election.
Several parties formed an electoral alliance.
Traditionally, all elections are held on Wednesday in the Netherlands. Sunday is not an option because it is a resting day for Christians, while Friday and Saturday are impossible, because of the Sabbath. Monday is also impossible, because then all preparation for an election would need to happen on the weekend. That leaves Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday as possible election days. Many polling stations are located in schools, therefore, Wednesday is chosen because it is usually the quietest day of the week for classes. However, the European Parliament Elections run from Thursday to Sunday across the entire European Union. Therefore, Thursday is the election day for the European Parliament Elections.[1]
According to the Treaty of Lisbon, the Netherlands was awarded 26 seats in the European parliament. This is one more than the election of 2009. The last elections were held when the treaty was not yet in effect, because not all member states had ratified the treaty. The treaty came into effect during the last session of the European Parliament. The additional seat was then awarded to the Party of Freedom on 9 October 2011 based on the results of the 2009 election. This increased the numbers of seats for the PVV from 4 to 5 for the 2009–2014 session.
Poll results are listed in the tables below in reverse chronological order. The highest figure in each survey is displayed in bold type, and the background is shaded in the colour the party. In the instance that there is a tie, then no figure is shaded.
Date | Polling Firm | VVD | PvdA | PVV | SP | CDA | D66 | CU−SGP | GL | PvdD | 50PLUS | Others |
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26 May (Preliminary results) | ANP[2] | 3 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
22 May (Exit polls) | Ipsos[3] | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
18 May | Peil (prognosis)[4] | 3–4 | 2–3 | 4–5 | 3–4 | 4–5 | 4–5 | 2–3 | 1–2 | 0–1 | 0–1 | 0 |
15 May | TNS Nipo[5] | 3–4 | 2–3 | 3–4 | 3–4 | 2–3 | 4–6 | 2–3 | 2 | 0–1 | 1 | 0 |
16 Apr | TNS Nipo[6] | 4–5 | 2–3 | 4–5 | 2–3 | 2–3 | 3–5 | 2–3 | 1–2 | 0–1 | 0–1 | 0–1 |
13 Apr | Peil | 4 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
6 Mar | Ipsos | 4 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
11 Jan | TNS Nipo | 5 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
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4 June 2009 | Election results | 3 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Date | Polling Firm | VVD | PvdA | PVV | SP | CDA | D66 | CU−SGP | GL | PvdD | 50PLUS | Others |
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26 May (Preliminary results) | ANP[2] | 11.9% | 9.4% | 13.2% | 9.6% | 15% | 15.4% | 7.6% | 7.0% | 4.2% | 3.7% | 3% |
22 May (Exit polls) | Ipsos[3] | 12.3% | 9.4% | 12.2% | 10.0% | 15.2% | 15.6% | 7.8% | 7.3% | 4.2% | 4.2% | 1.1% |
15 May | TNS Nipo[5] | 12.3% | 9.9% | 11.9% | 11.9% | 11.3% | 19.3% | 9.5% | 6.0% | 1.6% | 3.8% | 2.5% |
16 Apr | TNS Nipo[6] | 16.2% | 10.5% | 18.1% | 9.9% | 11.1% | 15.7% | 8.3% | 4.7% | 1.0% | 2.8% | 1.8% |
13 Apr | Peil[7] | 15% | 8% | 15% | 11% | 15% | 15% | 7% | 4% | 4% | 4% | 1% |
6 Mar | Ipsos | 16% | 10% | 16% | 14% | 13% | 15% | 6.7% | 3.7% | 2.7% | 3.5% | N/A |
11 Jan | TNS Nipo | 16.4% | 12.2% | 17.2% | 13.2% | 10.6% | 12.3% | 6.2% | 3.7% | 2.2% | 3.8% | 1.7% |
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4 June 2009 | Election results | 11.4% | 12.1% | 17.0% | 7.1% | 20.1% | 11.3% | 6.8% | 8.9% | 3.5% | − | 2.0% |
The Christian Democratic Appeal won the most seats and was seen as the winner of the 2014 elections, although Democrats 66 received more votes. The Christian Democratic Appeal got an extra seat due to their electoral alliance with Christian Union – Reformed Political Party. The eurosceptic PVV (Party for Freedom) was the biggest loser of the 2014 elections, though it only lost one seat. Contrary to other European countries, the eurosceptic movement did worse than previous elections.
Voter turnout was with 37.32%, which is a little higher than in 2009 (36.75%). Turnout was highest in Schiermonnikoog (70.95%) and lowest in Sint Eustatius (7.44%).
Party | Votes | % | Seats | +/– | |
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Democrats 66 | 735,825 | 15.48 | 4 | +1 | |
Christian Democratic Appeal | 721,766 | 15.18 | 5 | 0 | |
Party for Freedom | 633,114 | 13.32 | 4 | –1 | |
People's Party for Freedom and Democracy | 571,176 | 12.02 | 3 | 0 | |
Socialist Party | 458,079 | 9.64 | 2 | 0 | |
Labour Party | 446,763 | 9.40 | 3 | 0 | |
Christian Union – Reformed Political Party | 364,843 | 7.67 | 2 | 0 | |
GroenLinks | 331,594 | 6.98 | 2 | –1 | |
Party for the Animals | 200,254 | 4.21 | 1 | +1 | |
50PLUS | 175,343 | 3.69 | 0 | New | |
Pirate Party | 40,216 | 0.85 | 0 | New | |
Article 50 | 24,069 | 0.51 | 0 | New | |
Anti EU(ro) Party | 12,290 | 0.26 | 0 | New | |
The Greens | 10,883 | 0.23 | 0 | 0 | |
Jesus Lives | 9,507 | 0.20 | 0 | New | |
ichooseforhonest.eu | 6,796 | 0.14 | 0 | New | |
Liberal Democratic Party | 6,349 | 0.13 | 0 | 0 | |
Focus and Simplicity | 3,174 | 0.07 | 0 | New | |
IQ, the Rights–Obligations-Party | 1,705 | 0.04 | 0 | New | |
Total | 4,753,746 | 100.00 | 26 | +1 | |
Valid votes | 4,753,746 | 99.40 | |||
Invalid/blank votes | 28,505 | 0.60 | |||
Total votes | 4,782,251 | 100.00 | |||
Registered voters/turnout | 12,815,496 | 37.32 | |||
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 4,753,746 valid votes, divided by 26 seats.
The electoral quota was established as: 182.836
The results of the electoral alliances. Both parties of both alliances reached the electoral quota and are eligible for remainder seats.
Electoral alliance | List | Number of votes |
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A |
List 1: CDA – European People's Party | 721,766 |
List 8: Christian Union-SGP | 364,843 | |
Total | 1,086,609 |
Electoral alliance | List | Number of votes |
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B |
List 3: P.v.d.A./European Social Democrats | 446,763 |
List 6: GreenLeft | 331,594 | |
Total | 778,357 |
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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A (list 1+8) | Christian Democratic Appeal + Christian Union-SGP | 1,086,609 | 182,836 | 5 |
B (list 3+6) | Labour Party + GreenLeft | 778,357 | 182,836 | 4 |
2 | Party for Freedom | 633,114 | 182,836 | 3 |
4 | People's Party for Freedom and Democracy | 571,176 | 182,836 | 3 |
5 | Democrats 66 | 735,825 | 182,836 | 4 |
7 | Socialist Party | 458,079 | 182,836 | 2 |
9 | Article 50 | 24,069 | 182,836 | 0 |
10 | IQ, the Rights-Obligations-Party | 1,705 | 182,836 | 0 |
11 | Pirate Party | 40,216 | 182,836 | 0 |
12 | 50PLUS | 175,343 | 182,836 | 0 |
13 | The Greens | 10,883 | 182,836 | 0 |
14 | Anti EU(ro) Party | 12,290 | 182,836 | 0 |
15 | Liberal Democratic Party | 6,349 | 182,836 | 0 |
16 | Jesus Lives | 9,507 | 182,836 | 0 |
17 | ichooseforhonest.eu | 6,796 | 182,836 | 0 |
18 | Party for the Animals | 200,254 | 182,836 | 1 |
19 | Focus and Simplicity | 3,174 | 182,836 | 0 |
Total | 4,753,746 | 22 | ||
Total seats | 26 | |||
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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A (list 1+8) | 181,101 | 155,229 | 155,229 | 155,229 | 2 |
B (list 3+6) | 155,671 | 155,671 | 155,671 | 129,726 | 1 |
2 | 158,278 | 158,278 | 126,622 | 126,622 | 1 |
4 | 142,794 | 142,794 | 142,794 | 142,794 | |
5 | 147,165 | 147,165 | 147,165 | 147,165 | |
7 | 152,693 | 152,693 | 152,693 | 152,693 | |
18 | 100,127 | 100,127 | 100,127 | 100,127 | |
Assigned to | A | 2 | B | A |
The election committee also calculated what would have happened without electoral alliances. In that case the CDA – European People's Party would have 4 seats instead of 5 and the Socialist Party 3 seats instead of 2.
To decide the seats per party for electoral alliances, the combination quota is first determined. Combination quota for electoral alliances are determined by the total number valid votes divided by the awarded seats. The party with the most votes left after the full seats are assigned gets the seat remaining.
List A
For list A, there were 1,086,609 votes divided by 7 seats.
The combination quota was established as: 155,229 votes
Electoral alliance | List | Number of votes | Combination quota | Full seats | Remainder votes | Remainder seat | Total |
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A |
List 1: CDA – European People's Party | 721,766 | 155,229 | 4 | 100,846 | 1 | 5 |
List 8: Christian Union-SGP | 364,843 | 155,229 | 2 | 54,383 | 2 | ||
Total | 1,086,609 | 7 |
List B
For list B, there were 778,357 votes divided by 5 seats.
The combination quota was established as: 155,671 votes
Electoral alliance | List | Number of votes | Combination quota | Full seats | Remainder votes | Remainder seat | Total |
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B |
List 3: P.v.d.A./European Social Democrats | 446,763 | 155,671 | 2 | 135,420 | 1 | 3 |
List 6: GreenLeft | 331,594 | 155,671 | 2 | 20,251 | 2 | ||
Total | 778,357 | 5 |
Summary:
Summary:
EPP | S&D | ECR | ALDE | GUE/NGL | G-EFA | EFDD | ENF | Total |
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5 (CDA) | 3 (PvdA) | 2 (CU-SGP) | 4 (D66) 3 (VVD) |
2 (SP) 1 (PvdD) |
2 (GL) | 4 (PVV) | 26 |
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European group | Seats 2009 | Seats 2014 | Change | ||||||||
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Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe | ALDE | 6 | 7 | 1 | |||||||
European People's Party | EPP | 5 | 5 | 0 | |||||||
Europe of Nations and Freedom | ENF | none | 4 | 4 | |||||||
Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats | S&D | 3 | 3 | 0 | |||||||
European United Left–Nordic Green Left | EUL-NGL | 2 | 3 | 1 | |||||||
The Greens–European Free Alliance | Greens-EFA | 3 | 2 | 1 | |||||||
European Conservatives and Reformists | ECR | 1 | 2 | 1 | |||||||
Europe of Freedom and Democracy | EFD | 1 | 0 | 1 | |||||||
Non-Inscrits | NI | 4+1 | 0 | 5 | |||||||
25(+1) | 26 | 0 |
23 members were directly elected by preference votes, though 28 members got enough preference votes.
To be elected by preference votes, 10% of the electoral quota is needed.
The electoral quota was 182,836. 10% of 182,836 = 18,284 votes.
Not all candidates could be appointed because either, the party did not get enough seats, or they got no seats.
Below are all the elected members of European parliament for the Netherlands. Members elected by preference votes are in bold. The following 26 MEPs were officially announced by the Central Electoral Commission.
P.v.d.A./European Social Democrats
Members not elected, but enough preference votes:
Below is a list of members of the European Parliament for the period 2014–2019 as a result of this election.
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Name | Sex | National party | EP Group | Period | Preference vote | ||||||
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Hans van Baalen | Male | People's Party for Freedom and Democracy | ALDE | 14 July 2009 – 2 July 2019[8] | 358,029 | ||||||
Bas Belder | Male | Reformed Political Party | ECR | 20 July 1999 – 2 July 2019[9] | 53,995 | ||||||
Wim van de Camp | Male | Christian Democratic Appeal | EPP | 14 July 2009 – 2 July 2019[10] | 37,715 | ||||||
Peter van Dalen | Male | Christian Union | ECR | 14 July 2009 – Present[11] | 253,620 | ||||||
Bas Eickhout | Male | GreenLeft | G–EFA | 14 July 2009 – Present[12] | 184,154 | ||||||
André Elissen | Male | Party for Freedom | ENF | 13 June 2017 – 2 July 2019[13] | 1,976 | ||||||
Gerben-Jan Gerbrandy | Male | Democrats 66 | ALDE | 14 July 2009 – 2 July 2019[14] | 31,326 | ||||||
Marcel de Graaff | Male | Party for Freedom | NI / ENF | 1 July 2014 – 2 July 2019[15] | 276,680 | ||||||
Anja Hazekamp | Female | Party for the Animals | EUL–NGL | 1 July 2014 – Present[16] | 131,093 | ||||||
Jan Huitema | Male | People's Party for Freedom and Democracy | ALDE | 1 July 2014 – 2 July 2019[17] | 26,031 | ||||||
Hans Jansen | Male | Party for Freedom | NI / ENF | 1 July 2014 – 5 May 2015[18] | 16,568 | ||||||
Dennis de Jong | Male | Socialist Party | EUL–NGL | 14 July 2009 – 2 July 2019[19] | 300,782 | ||||||
Agnes Jongerius | Female | Labour Party | S&D | 1 July 2014 – Present[20] | 170,119 | ||||||
Esther de Lange | Female | Christian Democratic Appeal | EPP | 12 April 2007 – Present[21] | 415,011 | ||||||
Jeroen Lenaers | Male | Christian Democratic Appeal | EPP | 1 July 2014 – Present[22] | 36,428 | ||||||
Vicky Maeijer | Female | Party for Freedom | NI / ENF | 1 July 2014 – 15 March 2017[23] | 26,491 | ||||||
Matthijs van Miltenburg | Male | Democrats 66 | ALDE | 1 July 2014 – 2 July 2019[24] | 16,698 | ||||||
Anne-Marie Mineur | Female | Socialist Party | EUL–NGL | 1 July 2014 – 2 July 2019[25] | 52,187 | ||||||
Caroline Nagtegaal-van Doorn | Female | People's Party for Freedom and Democracy | ALDE | 14 November 2017 – Present[26] | 19,370 | ||||||
Cora van Nieuwenhuizen | Female | People's Party for Freedom and Democracy | ALDE | 1 July 2014 – 25 October 2017[27] | 86,237 | ||||||
Lambert van Nistelrooij | Male | Christian Democratic Appeal | EPP | 20 July 2004 – 2 July 2019[28] | 32,970 | ||||||
Kati Piri | Female | Labour Party | S&D | 1 July 2014 – Present[29] | 10,351 | ||||||
Judith Sargentini | Female | GreenLeft | G–EFA | 14 July 2009 – 2 July 2019[30] | 91,745 | ||||||
Marietje Schaake | Female | Democrats 66 | ALDE | 14 July 2009 – 2 July 2019[31] | 41,236 | ||||||
Annie Schreijer-Pierik | Female | Christian Democratic Appeal | EPP | 1 July 2014 – Present[32] | 113,123 | ||||||
Olaf Stuger | Male | Party for Freedom | NI / ENF | 1 July 2014 – 2 July 2019[33] | 4,021 | ||||||
Paul Tang | Male | Labour Party | S&D | 1 July 2014 – Present[34] | 183,296 | ||||||
Sophie in 't Veld | Female | Democrats 66 | ALDE | 20 July 2004 – Present[35] | 568,185 | ||||||
Auke Zijlstra | Male | Party for Freedom | NI / ENF | 13 September 2011 – 1 July 2014 7 September 2015 – 2 July 2019[36] |
4,509 | ||||||
Source:[37] |