Netherlands 1977 general election
Final results from ParlGov, read : Labour Party won 53 of 150 seats with 33.8% of the vote; 88.0% of registered voters cast a ballot, up 4.5 points on 1972.
- Netherlands
- Held
Result
Seats and votes by party
| Party | Seats | ± seats | % | ± points | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour Party | 53 | +10 | 33.8 | +6.5 | 2,813,793 |
| Christian Democratic Appealwith Anti-Revolutionary Party, Christian Historical Union and Catholic People's Party | 49 | 31.9 | 2,652,278 | ||
| People's Party for Freedom and Democracy | 28 | +6 | 17.9 | +3.5 | 1,492,689 |
| Democrats 66 | 8 | +2 | 5.4 | +1.3 | 452,423 |
| Reformed Political Party | 3 | 0 | 2.1 | −0.1 | 177,010 |
| Communist Party of the Netherlands | 2 | −5 | 1.7 | −2.7 | 143,481 |
| Political Party of Radicals | 3 | −4 | 1.7 | −3.1 | 140,910 |
| Reformed Political League | 1 | −1 | 0.9 | −0.8 | 79,421 |
| Pacifist Socialist Party | 1 | −1 | 0.9 | −0.6 | 77,972 |
| Farmers' Party | 1 | −2 | 0.8 | −1.1 | 69,914 |
| Democratic Socialists '70 | 1 | −5 | 0.7 | −3.4 | 59,487 |
| Reformatory Political Federation | 0 | 0.6 | 53,220 |
± is the change against the Netherlands 1972 general election, party by party.
Votes by party
- Labour Party 2,813,793
- Christian Democratic Appeal 2,652,278
- People's Party for Freedom and Democracy 1,492,689
- Democrats 66 452,423
- Reformed Political Party 177,010
- Communist Party of the Netherlands 143,481
- Political Party of Radicals 140,910
- Reformed Political League 79,421
- Pacifist Socialist Party 77,972
- Farmers' Party 69,914
- Democratic Socialists '70 59,487
- Reformatory Political Federation 53,220
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.
ParlGov counts an alliance's votes and seats under its first party: such a row names the allies it counts.
Share of the vote
Turnout
88.0% of the 9,506,318 registered voters cast a ballot (8,365,829 ballots), up 4.5 points on 1972. 8,317,612 of them were valid votes. The highest turnout since 1967 in our data. How turnout is counted.
Votes and seats
- Labour Party33.8% of votes35.3% of seats
- Christian Democratic Appeal31.9% of votes32.7% of seats
- People's Party for Freedom and Democracy17.9% of votes18.7% of seats
- Democrats 665.4% of votes5.3% of seats
- Reformed Political Party2.1% of votes2.0% of seats
- Political Party of Radicals1.7% of votes2.0% of seats
- Communist Party of the Netherlands1.7% of votes1.3% of seats
- Reformed Political League0.9% of votes0.7% of seats
- Pacifist Socialist Party0.9% of votes0.7% of seats
- Farmers' Party0.8% of votes0.7% of seats
- Democratic Socialists '700.7% of votes0.7% of seats
The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 1.5 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 4.0 by votes and 3.7 by seats; Labour Party led Christian Democratic Appeal by 1.9 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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