Netherlands 1959 general election
Final results from ParlGov, read : Catholic People's Party won 49 of 150 seats with 31.6% of the vote; 95.6% of registered voters cast a ballot, up 0.1 points on 1956.
- Netherlands
- Held
Result
Seats and votes by party
| Party | Seats | ± seats | % | ± points | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Catholic People's Party | 49 | 0 | 31.6 | −0.1 | 1,895,914 |
| Labour Party | 48 | −2 | 30.4 | −2.3 | 1,821,285 |
| People's Party for Freedom and Democracy | 19 | +6 | 12.2 | +3.4 | 732,658 |
| Anti-Revolutionary Party | 14 | −1 | 9.4 | −0.5 | 563,091 |
| Christian Historical Union | 12 | −1 | 8.1 | −0.3 | 486,429 |
| Communist Party of the Netherlands | 3 | −4 | 2.4 | −2.3 | 144,542 |
| Reformed Political Party | 3 | 0 | 2.2 | −0.1 | 129,678 |
| Pacifist Socialist Party | 2 | 1.8 | 110,499 | ||
| Reformed Political League | 0 | 0 | 0.7 | 0.0 | 39,972 |
± is the change against the Netherlands 1956 general election, party by party.
Votes by party
- Catholic People's Party 1,895,914
- Labour Party 1,821,285
- People's Party for Freedom and Democracy 732,658
- Anti-Revolutionary Party 563,091
- Christian Historical Union 486,429
- Communist Party of the Netherlands 144,542
- Reformed Political Party 129,678
- Pacifist Socialist Party 110,499
- Reformed Political League 39,972
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
95.6% of the 6,427,864 registered voters cast a ballot (6,143,409 ballots), up 0.1 points on 1956. 5,999,531 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
- Catholic People's Party31.6% of votes32.7% of seats
- Labour Party30.4% of votes32.0% of seats
- People's Party for Freedom and Democracy12.2% of votes12.7% of seats
- Anti-Revolutionary Party9.4% of votes9.3% of seats
- Christian Historical Union8.1% of votes8.0% of seats
- Communist Party of the Netherlands2.4% of votes2.0% of seats
- Reformed Political Party2.2% of votes2.0% of seats
- Pacifist Socialist Party1.8% of votes1.3% of seats
The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 1.6 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 4.5 by votes and 4.1 by seats; Catholic People's Party led Labour Party by 1.2 points 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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