1999 European Parliament election in the Netherlands

none October 2017 October 2017 1999 European Parliament election in the Netherlands Netherlands 1999 Parliamentary no 1994 European Parliament election in the Netherlands 1994 2004 European Parliament election in the Netherlands 2004 31 seats to the European Parliament 10 June 1999 30.02% Christian Democratic Appeal 150x150px Hanja Maij-Weggen EPP-ED 954,898 26.94% 3.9% 9 31 Christian Democratic Appeal 1 Labour Party (Netherlands) 150x150px Max van den Berg PES 712,929 20.11% 2.8% 6 31 Dutch Labour Party 2 People's Party for Freedom and Democracy 150x100px Jan-Kees Wiebenga ELDR 698,050 19.69% 2.2% 6 31 People's Party for Freedom and Democracy 0 GreenLeft 150x100px Joost Lagendijk Greens-EFA 419,869 11.85% 8.1% 4 31 GreenLeft 3 Reformed Political Party – Reformatory Political Federation – Reformed Political League 150x100px Hans Blokland EDD 309,612 8.74% 0.9% 3 31 Reformed Political Party - Reformatory Political Federation - Reformed Political League 1 Democrats 66 150x150px Lousewies van der Laan ELDR 205,623 5.80% 5.9% 2 31 Democrats 66 2 Socialist Party (Netherlands) 150x150px Erik Meijer EUL/NGL 178,642 5.04% 3.7 1 31 Socialist Party (Netherlands) 1 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: SGP, RPF and GPV Electoral alliances No lists formed an electoral alliance. Numbering of the candidates list Party lists in the 1999 European Parliament election in the Netherlands Numbering of the candidates list Results 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. Christian Democratic Appeal 954898 9 –1 Labour Party 712929 6 –2 People's Party for Freedom and Democracy 698050 6 0 GroenLinks 419869 4 +3 SGP–GPV–RPF 309612 3 +1 Democrats 66 205623 2 –2 Socialist Party 178642 1 +1 European Party 23231 0 New Centre Democrats 17740 0 0 European Electorate Platform Netherlands 13234 0 New List Sala 10580 0 New 16356 0 11862864 KiesraadKiesraad - Verkiezingsuitslagen https://www.verkiezingsuitslagen.nl/verkiezingen/detail/EP19990610 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 | style="text-align:center;" colspan="11" | 1994 1999 2004 |- |style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:center;vertical-align:top;" colspan="3"|European group !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |Seats 1994 !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |Seats 1999 !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |Change |- | European People's Party 2px | style="text-align:left;" | European People's Party–European Democrats | style="text-align:left;" | EPP-ED | style="text-align:right;" | 10 | style="text-align:right;" | 9 | style="text-align:right;" | 1 |- | style="background-color:gold;" width=0.3em| | style="text-align:left;" | European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party | style="text-align:left;" | ELDR | style="text-align:right;" | 10 | style="text-align:right;" | 8 | style="text-align:right;" | 2 |- | Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats 2px | style="text-align:left;" | Party of European Socialists | style="text-align:left;" | PES | style="text-align:right;" | 8 | style="text-align:right;" | 6 | style="text-align:right;" | 2 |- | The Greens–European Free Alliance 2px | style="text-align:left;" | The Greens–European Free Alliance | style="text-align:left;" | Greens-EFA | style="text-align:right;" | 1 | style="text-align:right;" | 4 | style="text-align:right;" | 3 |- | Europe of Democracies and Diversities 2px | style="text-align:left;" | Europe of Democracies and Diversities | style="text-align:left;" | EDD | style="text-align:right;" | 2 | style="text-align:right;" | 3 | style="text-align:right;" | 1 |- | European United Left–Nordic Green Left 2px | style="text-align:left;" | European United Left–Nordic Green Left | style="text-align:left;" | EUL-NGL | style="text-align:right;" | 0 | style="text-align:right;" | 1 | style="text-align:right;" | 1 |- | Non-Inscrits 2px | style="text-align:left;" | Non-Inscrits | style="text-align:left;" | NI | style="text-align:right;" | 0 | style="text-align:right;" | 0 | style="text-align:right;" | 0 |- |width="350" style="text-align:right;background-color:#E9E9E9" colspan="3"| |width="30" style="text-align:right;background-color:#E9E9E9"| 31 |width="30" style="text-align:right;background-color:#E9E9E9"| 31 |width="30" style="text-align:right;background-color:#E9E9E9"| 0 |} Elected members List of members of the European Parliament for the Netherlands, 1999–2004 5 largest municipalities + Results in the five largest municipalitiesEuropees Parlement – 10 juni 1999 https://www.verkiezingsuitslagen.nl/verkiezingen/detail/EP19990610 3 May 2025 Kiesraad Dutch Municipality CDA PvdA VVD GL SGP–GPV–RPF D66 SP Others Amsterdam 9.1(11 957)27.2(35 921) 17.4(22 886) 24.6(32 469) 1.5(2 021) 9.1(11 938) 7.2(9 431) 4.0(5 251) Rotterdam 16.5(15 649)27.3(25 936) 18.4(17 412) 13.1(12 459) 5.8(5 503) 7.4(7 056) 8.1(7 707) 3.3(3 113) The Hague 16.7(13 068) 20.5(16 058)26.2(20 490) 13.6(10 605) 4.0(3 103) 12.2(9 516) 4.8(3 782) 2.0(1 589) Utrecht (municipality) Utrecht 14.2(8 094) 22.3(12 710) 16.0(9 109)26.2(14 900) 3.3(1 862) 9.6(5 442) 6.9(3 923) 1.5(880) Eindhoven27.1(11 294) 19.7(8 205) 19.5(8 120) 15.2(6 325) 2.0(849) 6.5(2 727) 8.1(3 393) 1.9(789) References Netherlands Category:European Parliament elections in the Netherlands Category:1999 elections in the Netherlands