2004 European Parliament election in the Netherlands

none October 2017 October 2017 2004 European Parliament election in the Netherlands Netherlands Parliamentary no 1999 European Parliament election in the Netherlands 1999 2009 European Parliament election in the Netherlands 2009 27 seats to the European Parliament 10 June 2004 39.26% Christian Democratic Appeal 100px Camiel Eurlings EPP-ED 1,164,431 24.43% 2.51% 7 27 Christian Democratic Appeal 2 Labour Party (Netherlands) 100px Max van den Berg PES 1,124,549 23.60% 3.49% 7 27 Dutch Labour Party 1 People's Party for Freedom and Democracy 100px Jules Maaten ALDE 629,198 13.20% 6.49% 4 27 People's Party for Freedom and Democracy 2 GreenLeft 100px Kathalijne Buitenweg Greens-EFA 352,201 7.39% 4.46% 2 27 GreenLeft 2 Europe Transparent 100px Paul van Buitenen Greens-EFA 349,156 7.33% new 2 27 Europe Transparent 2 Socialist Party (Netherlands) 100px Erik Meijer EUL/NGL 332,326 6.97% 1.93% 2 27 Socialist Party (Netherlands) 1 Christian Union – Reformed Political Party 100px Hans Blokland ID 279,880 5.87% 2.27% 2 27 Christian Union – Reformed Political Party 1 Democrats 66 100px Sophie in 't Veld ALDE 202,502 4.25% 1.55% 1 27 Democrats 66 1 An election of Members of the European Parliament representing Netherlands constituency for the 2004–2009 term of the European Parliament was held on 10 June 2004. It was part of the wider 2004 European election. Fifteen parties competed in a D'Hondt type election for 27 seats (down from 31). 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: Christian Union and SGP Electoral alliances Several parties formed an electoral alliance:Minutes Dutch EP election 2004 in .pfd and Dutch PvdA/European Social-Democrats and GreenLeft CDA/European People's Party and Christian Union-SGP VVD/European Liberal-Democrats and Democrats 66 The alliance between Christian Democratic Appeal and Christian Union-SGP cost the Christian Democratic Appeal a seat, which goes to Christian Union-SGP. Other alliances had no effect on the result. Treaty of Nice Treaty of Nice The exact number of seats allocated to each country is determined by the treaties, currently the Treaty of Nice, and is adjusted by the accession treaty of each new member. Hence no change to the seats occurs without ratification by all states. According to the treaties, the maximum number of members in the Parliament is 732. This why the seats for the Netherlands was reduced from 31 to 27 Numbering of the candidates list Party lists in the 2004 European Parliament election in the Netherlands Numbering of the candidates list Results Netherlands (European Parliament constituency) According to the European Commission, the publication of national results prior to Sunday evening is considered illegal. However, all the municipalities in the Netherlands published the results on Thursday, giving the media the opportunity to give an almost complete national result, only missing votes cast abroad. The complete and official result were publicised according to the rules. Electoral council is allowed to renounce results Article Volkskrant The ruling centre-right parties, the Christian Democratic Appeal and the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy polled poorly, while the opposition Labour Party and Socialist Party gained ground. The anti-fraud party Europe Transparent of whistleblower Paul van Buitenen unexpectedly won two seats. Voter turnout was 39.26%, a lot higher than the turnout in 1999 30.02%. Christian Democratic Appeal 1164431 7 –2 Labour Party 1124549 7 +1 People's Party for Freedom and Democracy 629198 4 –2 GroenLinks 352201 2 –2 Europe Transparent 349156 2 New Socialist Party 332326 2 +1 Christian Union – Reformed Political Party 279880 2 –1 Democrats 66 202502 1 –1 Party for the Animals 153432 0 New Pim Fortuyn List 121509 0 New Party for the North 18234 0 New New Right 15732 0 New Liveable Europe 9144 0 New Democratic Europe 8780 0 New Respect.now 4603 0 New 11444 –4 12168878 Kiesraad Europees Parlement – 10 juni 2004 https://www.verkiezingsuitslagen.nl/verkiezingen/detail/EP20040610 3 May 2025 Kiesraad Dutch European groups The EPP-ED group lost 2 seats, making it just as big as the PES group. The ELDR becomes 3rd group after PES. After the elections ELDR and European Democratic Party (EDP) formed a new European Group named ALDE in the European parliament. The EDP did not have member party's in the Netherlands. Also the Europe of Democracies and Diversities (EDD) group reforms itself with party's from Eastern-Europe. They rename their group to Independence/Democracy (ID). The Christian Union – Reformed Political Party is part of this new group. Summary of the 10 June 2004 European Parliament elections in the Netherlands | style="text-align:center;" colspan="11" | 1999 2004 2009 |- |style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:center;vertical-align:top;" colspan="3"|European group !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |Seats 1999 !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |Seats 2004 !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;" | 9 | style="text-align:right;" | 7 | 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;" | 6 | style="text-align:right;" | 7 | style="text-align:right;" | 1 |- | 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;" | 8 | style="text-align:right;" | 5 | style="text-align:right;" | 3 |- | 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;" | 4 | style="text-align:right;" | 0 |- | 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;" | 1 | style="text-align:right;" | 2 | style="text-align:right;" | 1 |- | Independence/Democracy 2px | style="text-align:left;" | Independence/Democracy | style="text-align:left;" | IND&DEM | style="text-align:right;" | 3 | style="text-align:right;" | 2 | 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"|27 |width="30" style="text-align:right;background-color:#E9E9E9"| 4 |} Elected members List of members of the European Parliament for the Netherlands, 2004–09 5 largest municipalities + Results in the five largest municipalities Municipality CDA PvdA VVD GL ET SP D66 CU–SGP Others Amsterdam 7.7(14 665)28.3(53 743) 11.2(21 347) 17.8(33 876) 7.3(13 768) 10.1(19 241) 6.9(13 030) 0.9(1 782) 9.8(18 560) Rotterdam 13.7(18 788)31.0(42 543) 11.5(15 764) 8.2(11 216) 7.3(9 981) 8.5(11 705) 4.6(6 371) 3.5(4 762) 11.7(16 084) The Hague 16.0(18 021)24.9(28 154) 17.1(19 284) 9.1(10 254) 7.4(8 357) 6.5(7 306) 6.5(7 334) 2.3(2 562) 10.4(11 698) Utrecht (municipality) Utrecht 12.9(11 285)23.9(20 900) 12.1(10 523) 18.7(16 287) 6.2(5 384) 9.7(8 423) 8.3(7 272) 2.2(1 946) 6.0(5 281) Eindhoven 20.5(11 420)24.7(13 738) 13.1(7 303) 9.0(4 994) 8.3(4 634) 10.9(6 091) 5.8(3 229) 1.4(770) 6.2(3 475) References Netherlands Category:European Parliament elections in the Netherlands European Parliament election