1986 Dutch general election

none Netherlands 1982 1989 All 150 seats in the House of Representatives 76 21 May 1986 85.76% ( 4.78pp) Ruud Lubbers Christian Democratic Appeal 45 54 34.59 Joop den Uyl Labour Party (Netherlands) 47 52 33.27 Ed Nijpels People's Party for Freedom and Democracy 36 27 17.41 Hans van Mierlo Democrats 66 6 9 6.13 Bas van der Vlies Reformed Political Party 3 3 1.74 Ria Beckers Political Party of Radicals 2 2 1.26 Andrée van Es Pacifist Socialist Party 3 1 1.20 Gert Schutte Reformed Political League 1 1 0.96 Meindert Leerling Reformatory Political Federation 2 1 0.91 Tweede Kamerverkiezingen 1986.png Most voted-for party by municipality Cabinet First Lubbers cabinet CDA–VVD Second Lubbers cabinet CDA–VVD General elections were held in the Netherlands on 21 May 1986.Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p1396 978-3-8329-5609-7 The Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA) emerged as the largest party, winning 54 of the 150 seats in the House of Representatives.Nohlen & Stöver, p1414 The incumbent CDA-VVD coalition maintained exactly the same number of seats as they had achieved at the last general election and continued working together in government with the CDA's Ruud Lubbers as Prime Minister. Electoral system The Dutch parliament was elected using party-list proportional representation with a single nationwide constituency.Derbyshire and Derbyshire, Political Systems of the World, p. 505 Results File:1986 Dutch General Election.svg Christian Democratic Appeal 3172918 54 +9 Labour Party 3051678 52 +5 People's Party for Freedom and Democracy 1596991 27 –9 Democrats 66 562466 9 +3 Reformed Political Party 159740 3 0 Political Party of Radicals 115203 2 0 Pacifist Socialist Party 110182 1 –2 Reformed Political League 88381 1 0 Reformatory Political Federation 83582 1 –1 Communist Party of the Netherlands 57847 0 –3 Centre Party 36741 0 –1 Socialist Party 32144 0 0 Evangelical People's Party 21998 0 –1 Federation of Greens 18641 0 New Party for the Middle Groups 15297 0 New Loesje 12882 0 New Centre Democrats 12277 0 New League of Communists in the Netherlands 4618 0 New red Partij voor Ambtenaren & Trendvolgers 4500 0 New Anti Revolutionaries '85 nl Anti-Revolutionairen 1985 3664 0 New Socialist Workers' Party 3634 0 New God with Us (political party) nl God Met Ons God with Us 2375 0 0 General Interest Party 2128 0 New Luck for Everyone Party 1184 0 New Wissink List 560 0 New Humanist Party 463 0 New Brummer List 65 0 New 27462 0 10727701 Kiesraad By province + Results by provincehttps://www.verkiezingsuitslagen.nl/verkiezingen/detail/TK19860521 Tweede Kamer 21 mei 1986 Kiesraad Dutch 4 November 2021 Province CDA PvdA VVD D66 SGP PPR PSP GPV RPF Others Drenthe 27.043.5 17.8 5.2 0.2 1.1 0.7 1.8 1.1 2.3 Flevoland 29.833.6 17.2 7.9 2.6 1.3 0.7 1.6 1.9 2.2 Friesland 34.839.5 13.0 5.2 0.6 1.1 0.8 1.6 1.4 1.5 Gelderland 37.5 31.5 16.4 5.4 3.0 1.4 1.1 0.7 1.3 1.7 Groningen 23.046.9 13.5 5.4 0.2 1.6 1.5 3.9 1.1 2.0 Limburg (Netherlands) Limburg 46.0 34.0 11.3 4.4 0.0 1.0 0.8 0.1 0.1 2.4 North Brabant 44.2 29.6 15.4 5.5 0.4 1.1 1.1 0.2 0.3 1.7 North Holland 27.734.5 21.5 7.7 0.3 1.5 2.0 0.4 0.5 3.4 Overijssel 41.1 31.2 13.3 4.8 2.2 1.1 0.8 2.3 1.7 3.1 South Holland 29.433.7 19.7 7.0 3.1 1.1 1.1 0.8 1.0 3.9 Utrecht 33.8 26.6 21.6 7.0 2.5 1.7 1.6 1.6 1.2 1.6 Zeeland 32.9 29.6 17.8 5.5 7.9 1.0 0.7 1.4 1.5 2.9 References Further reading Van Der Eijk, Cees; Irwin, Galen; Niemöller, Kees (1986). "The Dutch parliamentary election of May 1986". Electoral Studies. 5 (3): 289–296. Gladdish, Ken. "The Centre Holds: the 1986 Netherlands Election," West European Politics (1987). 10#1 pp. 115–119 Category:General elections in the Netherlands Netherlands General Netherlands