Netherlands 1994 general election
Final results from ParlGov, read : Labour Party won 37 of 150 seats with 24.0% of the vote; 78.8% of registered voters cast a ballot, down 1.5 points on 1989.
- Netherlands
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Result
Seats and votes by party
| Party | Seats | ± seats | % | ± points | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour Party | 37 | −12 | 24.0 | −7.9 | 2,153,135 |
| Christian Democratic Appeal | 34 | −20 | 22.2 | −13.1 | 1,996,418 |
| People's Party for Freedom and Democracy | 31 | +9 | 20.0 | +5.4 | 1,792,401 |
| Democrats 66 | 24 | +12 | 15.5 | +7.6 | 1,391,202 |
| General Senior Union / United Seniors Party | 6 | 3.6 | 326,401 | ||
| GroenLinks | 5 | −1 | 3.5 | −0.6 | 311,399 |
| Centre Democrats | 3 | +2 | 2.5 | +1.5 | 220,734 |
| Reformatory Political Federation | 3 | +2 | 1.8 | +0.8 | 158,821 |
| Reformed Political Party | 2 | −1 | 1.7 | −0.1 | 155,251 |
| Reformed Political League | 2 | 0 | 1.3 | +0.1 | 119,158 |
| Socialist Party | 2 | +2 | 1.3 | +0.9 | 118,768 |
| Unnamed party with one seat | 1 | 0.9 | 78,147 | ||
| Centre Party | 0 | 0.4 | 32,327 |
± is the change against the Netherlands 1989 general election, party by party.
Votes by party
- Labour Party 2,153,135
- Christian Democratic Appeal 1,996,418
- People's Party for Freedom and Democracy 1,792,401
- Democrats 66 1,391,202
- General Senior Union / United Seniors Party 326,401
- GroenLinks 311,399
- Centre Democrats 220,734
- Reformatory Political Federation 158,821
- Reformed Political Party 155,251
- Reformed Political League 119,158
- Socialist Party 118,768
- Unnamed party with one seat 78,147
- Centre Party 32,327
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
78.8% of the 11,455,924 registered voters cast a ballot (9,027,887 ballots), down 1.5 points on 1989. 8,981,556 of them were valid votes. The lowest turnout of this kind in our data, which begins in 1946. How turnout is counted.
Votes and seats
- Labour Party24.0% of votes24.7% of seats
- Christian Democratic Appeal22.2% of votes22.7% of seats
- People's Party for Freedom and Democracy20.0% of votes20.7% of seats
- Democrats 6615.5% of votes16.0% of seats
- General Senior Union / United Seniors Party3.6% of votes4.0% of seats
- GroenLinks3.5% of votes3.3% of seats
- Centre Democrats2.5% of votes2.0% of seats
- Reformatory Political Federation1.8% of votes2.0% of seats
- Reformed Political Party1.7% of votes1.3% of seats
- Reformed Political League1.3% of votes1.3% of seats
- Socialist Party1.3% of votes1.3% of seats
The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 1.0 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 5.7 by votes and 5.4 by seats; Labour Party led Christian Democratic Appeal by 1.7 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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