Netherlands 1989 general election
Final results from ParlGov, read : Christian Democratic Appeal won 54 of 150 seats with 35.3% of the vote; 80.3% of registered voters cast a ballot, down 5.5 points on 1986.
- Netherlands
- Held
Result
Seats and votes by party
| Party | Seats | ± seats | % | ± points | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Christian Democratic Appeal | 54 | 0 | 35.3 | +0.7 | 3,140,502 |
| Labour Party | 49 | −3 | 31.9 | −1.4 | 2,835,251 |
| People's Party for Freedom and Democracy | 22 | −5 | 14.6 | −2.8 | 1,295,402 |
| Democrats 66 | 12 | +3 | 7.9 | +1.8 | 701,934 |
| GroenLinks | 6 | 4.1 | 362,304 | ||
| Reformed Political Party | 3 | 0 | 1.9 | +0.1 | 166,082 |
| Reformed Political League | 2 | +1 | 1.2 | +0.3 | 109,637 |
| Reformatory Political Federation | 1 | 0 | 1.0 | +0.1 | 85,231 |
| Centre Democrats | 1 | 0.9 | 81,427 | ||
| Socialist Party | 0 | 0.4 | 38,870 |
± is the change against the Netherlands 1986 general election, party by party.
Votes by party
- Christian Democratic Appeal 3,140,502
- Labour Party 2,835,251
- People's Party for Freedom and Democracy 1,295,402
- Democrats 66 701,934
- GroenLinks 362,304
- Reformed Political Party 166,082
- Reformed Political League 109,637
- Reformatory Political Federation 85,231
- Centre Democrats 81,427
- Socialist Party 38,870
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
80.3% of the 11,112,189 registered voters cast a ballot (8,919,787 ballots), down 5.5 points on 1986. 8,893,302 of them were valid votes. The lowest turnout since 1971 in our data. How turnout is counted.
Votes and seats
- Christian Democratic Appeal35.3% of votes36.0% of seats
- Labour Party31.9% of votes32.7% of seats
- People's Party for Freedom and Democracy14.6% of votes14.7% of seats
- Democrats 667.9% of votes8.0% of seats
- GroenLinks4.1% of votes4.0% of seats
- Reformed Political Party1.9% of votes2.0% of seats
- Reformed Political League1.2% of votes1.3% of seats
- Reformatory Political Federation1.0% of votes0.7% of seats
- Centre Democrats0.9% of votes0.7% of seats
The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 0.9 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 3.9 by votes and 3.8 by seats; Christian Democratic Appeal led Labour Party by 3.4 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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