2009 European Parliament election in the Netherlands

none October 2017 October 2017 2009 European Parliament election in the Netherlands Netherlands 2009 Parliamentary no 2004 European Parliament election in the Netherlands 2004 2014 European Parliament election in the Netherlands 2014 25 seats to the European Parliament 4 June 2009 36.75% Christian Democratic Appeal 100px Wim van de Camp EPP 913,233 20.05% 4.33% 5 25 Christian Democratic Appeal 2 Party for Freedom Barry Madlener NI 772,746 16.97% new 4 25 Party for Freedom 4 Labour Party (Netherlands) 100px Thijs Berman PES 548,691 12.05% 11.60% 3 25 Dutch Labour Party 4 People's Party for Freedom and Democracy 100px Hans van Baalen ALDE 518,643 11.39% 1.81% 3 25 People's Party for Freedom and Democracy 1 Democrats 66 100px Sophie in 't Veld ALDE 515,422 11.32% 7.08% 3 25 Democrats 66 2 GreenLeft 100px Judith Sargentini Greens-EFA 404,020 8.87% 1.53% 3 25 GreenLeft 1 Socialist Party (Netherlands) 100px Dennis de Jong EUL/NGL 323,269 7.10% 0.13% 2 25 Socialist Party (Netherlands) 0 Christian Union – Reformed Political Party 100px Peter van Dalen ECR / EFD 310,540 6.82% 0.91% 2 25 Christian Union – Reformed Political Party 0 An election of Members of the European Parliament representing Netherlands constituency took place on 4 June 2009. Seventeen parties competed in a D'Hondt type election for the available 25 seats (down from 27). For the first time, all Dutch residents of the Netherlands Antilles and Aruba were also entitled to vote in the election. Background Political co-operation The Christian Union and SGP formed a common list Christian Union-SGP for the European Parliament election. Moreover, several parties formed an electoral alliance: CDA/European People's Party and Christian Union-SGP, with 1,223,773 votes VVD/European Liberal-Democrats and Democrats 66, with 1,034,065 votes PvdA/European Social-Democrats and GreenLeft, with 952,711 votes All three alliances would be eligible for a remainder seat, because all the parties involved won a seat in the European Parliament. Without the alliance between the Dutch Labour Party and Greenleft, GreenLeft would have only two seats and PVV would have five seats. The other electoral alliances had no effect on the overall seats awarded.Uitslag verkiezing van de leden van het Europees Parlement van 4 juni 2009 https://web.archive.org/web/20090614080048/http://www.kiesraad.nl/nl/Verkiezingen/Verkiezingen-Overzicht/Uitslag_verkiezing_van_de_leden_van_het_Europees_Parlement_van_4_juni_2009.html 14 June 2009 Turnout in Netherlands Antilles and Aruba New electorate The Netherlands Antilles and Aruba were granted the right to vote in the European Parliament election by a verdict of the Council of State which stated that it is illegal to differentiate in law between people with Dutch nationality in Europe and outside. The government granted all persons of Dutch nationality voting rights for European elections. Before the verdict, only people who had lived in the Netherlands for 10 years or longer were allowed to vote. This ruling increased the number of people entitled to vote by 210,000. Only 20,944 people registered to vote from the islands in this election. The turnout of registered voters in the Netherlands Antilles and Aruba was 77% (rest of the world 66%.) This new voting right does not change the position of the Netherlands Antilles and Aruba. They are not considered to be part of the European Union and they do not need to adopt European law.Europees kiesrecht in Aruba en Nederlandse Antillen Dutch allowed to vote on the Netherlands Antilles and Aruba Before this election, people placed under a guardian were not allowed to vote. Usually a person has the status of guardian because the ward is incapable of caring for their own interests. A ruling of the Council of State decided that this was not allowed under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. It is not known how many people this affected, as there is no central register for individuals under guardianship.http://www.kiesraad.nl/nl/Overige_Content/Bestanden/pdf_thema/Kerngegevens_2009.pdf https://web.archive.org/web/20110721125717/http://www.kiesraad.nl/nl/Overige_Content/Bestanden/pdf_thema/Kerngegevens_2009.pdf dead Core data for 2009 elections 21 July 2011 2 August 2026 Treaty of Lisbon Treaty of Lisbon Under the Treaty of Lisbon, the Netherlands was to get a 26th seat in the European Parliament. Because this treaty had not yet been ratified by all member states at the time of the elections, this seat could not be given to a party at that time. The State Secretary for the Interior, Ank Bijleveld-Schouten, made a proposal for allocating it if the Lisbon treaty were to be ratified by all member states, but this had not been accepted by parliament at the time of the election. According to the proposal made by the government, the seat would be awarded to the Party for Freedom. The Party for the Animals contested this proposal, claiming that the minister ignored part of the Electoral Council's opinion. They raised their objection after the official results came in. Under the Electoral Council's opinion, the Party for the Animals should have gained the seat.Dutch parliament asks advice from Council of State https://web.archive.org/web/20090721191550/http://www.nrc.nl/binnenland/article2269488.ece/Tweede_Kamer_wil_advies_Raad_van_State_om_26ste_zetel 21 July 2009 in NRC Several parties in the States-General had already stated that this changed the election rules after the elections, and, if the rules were to be changed, the opposition had missed their chance by not contesting them before the elections. They had thus de facto agreed to the proposal.Dutch labour party wants remainder seat for Party for Freedom https://web.archive.org/web/20090614180059/http://www.telegraaf.nl/binnenland/4141962/__PvdA__Restzetel_is_voor_PVV__.html?p=3,1 14 June 2009 in TelegraafJunior minister says: remainder seat "de facto" for Party for Freedom in Trouw Advice had been requested from the Council of State on the matter. If the election had been for 26 seats rather than 25 from the start, the 26th seat would have been awarded to the Party for Freedom. On 9 October, the Dutch cabinet announced that the 26th seat would be awarded to the Party for Freedom. This would give them a total of 5 seats when the Lisbon treaty came into effect.PVV krijgt vijfde zetel in Europarlement on Nu.nl Treaty of Nice Treaty of Nice At present, the exact number of seats allocated to each country is determined by the Treaty of Nice, and is adjusted by the accession treaty of each new member. This last adjustment occurred with the enlargement in 2007. Hence no change to the seats occurs without ratification by all member states. According to the treaties, the maximum number of members in the Parliament is 732. However, allocation does not take into account any enlargements to the European Union expected during the Parliamentary term. Hence, when Romania and Bulgaria joined the union in 2007, the number of seats temporarily rose to 785, but later dropped back to 736 at time of the 2009 election. Because of this, the Netherlands had 27 seats in 2004 but only 25 in 2009. Numbering of the candidates list Party lists in the 2009 European Parliament election in the Netherlands Numbering of the candidates list Results Netherlands (European Parliament constituency) thumb|Voting ballot The Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA) remained the biggest party (five seats), despite losing two seats. The biggest winners were the Party for Freedom (up four seats) and Democrats 66 (up two). The biggest loser was the Labour Party, which lost more than half its seats (down four). Voter turnout was 36.75%, a little lower than in 2004 (39.26%). The highest turnout was in Rozendaal (65.7%) and the lowest in Rucphen (22.3%). Christian Democratic Appeal 913233 5 –2 Party for Freedom 772746 4 New Labour Party 548691 3 –4 People's Party for Freedom and Democracy 518643 3 –1 Democrats 66 515422 3 +2 GroenLinks 404020 3 +1 Socialist Party 323269 2 0 Christian Union – Reformed Political Party 310540 2 0 Party for the Animals 157735 0 0 European Whistleblower Party 21448 0 New Newropeans 19840 0 New Libertas 14612 0 New #0000FF Liberal Democratic Party 10757 0 New The Greens 8517 0 New Solidara 7533 0 New Europe Cheap! & Sustainable 4431 0 New Party for European politics 2427 0 New 19879 –2 12445497 Kiesraadhttps://www.verkiezingsuitslagen.nl/verkiezingen/detail/EP20090604 Europees Parlement 4 juni 2009 Verkiezingsuitslagen.nl 2 August 2026 European groups The Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe became the biggest group in the Netherlands, after an electoral loss for the parties in European People's Party–European Democrats and European Socialists group. The European Greens–European Free Alliance lost a seat, despite GreenLeft winning a seat. This was because Europe Transparent, which sat in the European Greens-EFA group, did not take part in this election. Newcomer Party for Freedom is not part of a European group and is under Non-Inscrits. The Christian Union-SGP was in the Independence/Democracy group, but this group did not meet the requirements to be a group in the European Parliament and was dissolved. The Christian Union and SGP entered talks with the European Conservatives after the elections. The SGP was asked to change their stance on women's issues, but declined. After that the Christian Union joined the European Conservatives on its own. After 25 years of co-operation, the Christian Union and Reformed Political Party split into two groups in the European parliament. Summary of the 4 June 2009 European Parliament elections in the Netherlands | style="text-align:center;" colspan="11" | 2004 2009 2014 |- |style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:center;vertical-align:top;" colspan="3"|European group !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |Seats 2004 !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |Seats 2009 !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |Change |- | style="background-color:gold;" width=0.3em| | style="text-align:left;" | Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe | style="text-align:left;" | ALDE | style="text-align:right;" | 5 | style="text-align:right;" | 6 | style="text-align:right;" | 1 |- | European People's Party 2px | style="text-align:left;" | European People's Party | style="text-align:left;" | EPP | style="text-align:right;" | 7 | style="text-align:right;" | 5 | style="text-align:right;" | 2 |- | Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats 2px | style="text-align:left;" | Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats | style="text-align:left;" | S&D | style="text-align:right;" | 7 | style="text-align:right;" | 3 | style="text-align:right;" | 4 |- | 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;" | 4 | 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;" | 2 | style="text-align:right;" | 2 | style="text-align:right;" | 0 |- | European Conservatives and Reformists 2px | style="text-align:left;" | European Conservatives and Reformists | style="text-align:left;" | ECR | style="text-align:right;" | 0 | style="text-align:right;" | 1 | style="text-align:right;" | 1 |- | Europe of Freedom and Democracy 2px | style="text-align:left;" | Europe of Freedom and Democracy | style="text-align:left;" | EFD | style="text-align:right;" | 2 | 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;" | 4(+1) | style="text-align:right;" | 4(+1) |- |width="350" style="text-align:right;background-color:#E9E9E9" colspan="3"| |width="30" style="text-align:right;background-color:#E9E9E9"| 27 |width="30" style="text-align:right;background-color:#E9E9E9"| 25(+1) |width="30" style="text-align:right;background-color:#E9E9E9"| 2(+1) |} Elected members List of members of the European Parliament for the Netherlands, 2009–2014 Twenty members were elected by preference vote. Twenty-four people got this amount, but not all could be appointed because either the party did not get enough seats or they got no seats. Members not elected, but enough preference votes: Christian Democratic Appeal – Maria Martens 38,781 votes. (party did not win enough seats) Socialist Party – Nicole van Gemert 23,662 votes. (party did not win enough seats) Party for Animals – Natasja Oerlemans 115,472 votes and Marianne Thieme 18,314 votes (party did not win any seat) References Netherlands 2009 European Parliament election