Netherlands 1998 general election
Final results from ParlGov, read : Labour Party won 45 of 150 seats with 29.0% of the vote; 73.3% of registered voters cast a ballot, down 5.5 points on 1994.
- Netherlands
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Result
Seats and votes by party
| Party | Seats | ± seats | % | ± points | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour Party | 45 | +8 | 29.0 | +5.0 | 2,494,555 |
| People's Party for Freedom and Democracy | 38 | +7 | 24.7 | +4.7 | 2,124,971 |
| Christian Democratic Appeal | 29 | −5 | 18.4 | −3.9 | 1,581,053 |
| Democrats 66 | 14 | −10 | 9.0 | −6.5 | 773,497 |
| GroenLinks | 11 | +6 | 7.3 | +3.8 | 625,968 |
| Socialist Party | 5 | +3 | 3.5 | +2.2 | 303,703 |
| Reformatory Political Federation | 3 | 0 | 2.0 | +0.3 | 174,593 |
| Reformed Political Party | 3 | +1 | 1.8 | +0.1 | 153,583 |
| Reformed Political League | 2 | 0 | 1.3 | −0.1 | 108,724 |
| Centre Democrats | 0 | −3 | 0.6 | −1.9 | 52,226 |
± is the change against the Netherlands 1994 general election, party by party.
Votes by party
- Labour Party 2,494,555
- People's Party for Freedom and Democracy 2,124,971
- Christian Democratic Appeal 1,581,053
- Democrats 66 773,497
- GroenLinks 625,968
- Socialist Party 303,703
- Reformatory Political Federation 174,593
- Reformed Political Party 153,583
- Reformed Political League 108,724
- Centre Democrats 52,226
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
73.3% of the 11,755,132 registered voters cast a ballot (8,622,222 ballots), down 5.5 points on 1994. 8,607,787 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 Party29.0% of votes30.0% of seats
- People's Party for Freedom and Democracy24.7% of votes25.3% of seats
- Christian Democratic Appeal18.4% of votes19.3% of seats
- Democrats 669.0% of votes9.3% of seats
- GroenLinks7.3% of votes7.3% of seats
- Socialist Party3.5% of votes3.3% of seats
- Reformatory Political Federation2.0% of votes2.0% of seats
- Reformed Political Party1.8% of votes2.0% of seats
- Reformed Political League1.3% of votes1.3% of seats
The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 1.2 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 5.1 by votes and 4.8 by seats; Labour Party led People's Party for Freedom and Democracy by 4.3 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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