Netherlands 1956 general election
Final results from ParlGov, read : Labour Party won 50 of 150 seats with 32.7% of the vote; 95.5% of registered voters cast a ballot, up 0.5 points on 1952.
- Netherlands
- Held
Result
Seats and votes by party
| Party | Seats | ± seats | % | ± points | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour Party | 50 | +20 | 32.7 | +3.7 | 1,872,209 |
| Catholic People's Party | 49 | +19 | 31.7 | +3.0 | 1,815,310 |
| Anti-Revolutionary Party | 15 | +3 | 9.9 | −1.4 | 567,535 |
| People's Party for Freedom and Democracy | 13 | +4 | 8.8 | −0.1 | 502,530 |
| Christian Historical Union | 13 | +4 | 8.4 | −0.5 | 482,918 |
| Communist Party of the Netherlands | 7 | +1 | 4.8 | −1.4 | 272,054 |
| Reformed Political Party | 3 | +1 | 2.3 | −0.2 | 129,517 |
| Reformed Political League | 0 | 0 | 0.7 | 0.0 | 37,206 |
± is the change against the Netherlands 1952 general election, party by party.
Votes by party
- Labour Party 1,872,209
- Catholic People's Party 1,815,310
- Anti-Revolutionary Party 567,535
- People's Party for Freedom and Democracy 502,530
- Christian Historical Union 482,918
- Communist Party of the Netherlands 272,054
- Reformed Political Party 129,517
- Reformed Political League 37,206
ParlGov lists parties with at least 1 percent of the vote or 2 seats, so the rows do not add up to the valid votes. How we read it.
Share of the vote
Turnout
95.5% of the 6,125,210 registered voters cast a ballot (5,849,652 ballots), up 0.5 points on 1952. 5,727,742 of them were valid votes. The highest turnout of this kind in our data, which begins in 1946. How turnout is counted.
Votes and seats
- Labour Party32.7% of votes33.3% of seats
- Catholic People's Party31.7% of votes32.7% of seats
- Anti-Revolutionary Party9.9% of votes10.0% of seats
- People's Party for Freedom and Democracy8.8% of votes8.7% of seats
- Christian Historical Union8.4% of votes8.7% of seats
- Communist Party of the Netherlands4.8% of votes4.7% of seats
- Reformed Political Party2.3% of votes2.0% of seats
The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 1.0 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 4.3 by votes and 4.1 by seats; Labour Party led Catholic People's Party by 1.0 point of the vote. How these are computed.
Sources and licence
Sources and licence
- ParlGov 2024 Release (Döring and Manow), Harvard Dataverse (source). Licence: CC0 1.0 Universal
- Wikidata, party colours (P465) (source). Licence: CC0 1.0 Universal
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