Netherlands 2002 general election
Final results from ParlGov, read : Christian Democratic Appeal won 43 of 150 seats with 27.9% of the vote; 79.1% of registered voters cast a ballot, up 5.7 points on 1998.
- Netherlands
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Result
Seats and votes by party
| Party | Seats | ± seats | % | ± points | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Christian Democratic Appeal | 43 | +14 | 27.9 | +9.6 | 2,653,723 |
| Pim Fortuyn List | 26 | 17.0 | 1,614,801 | ||
| People's Party for Freedom and Democracy | 24 | −14 | 15.4 | −9.3 | 1,466,722 |
| Labour Party | 23 | −22 | 15.1 | −13.9 | 1,436,023 |
| GroenLinks | 10 | −1 | 7.0 | −0.3 | 660,692 |
| Socialist Party | 9 | +4 | 5.9 | +2.4 | 560,447 |
| Democrats 66 | 7 | −7 | 5.1 | −3.9 | 484,317 |
| Christian Union | 4 | 2.5 | 240,953 | ||
| Reformed Political Party | 2 | −1 | 1.7 | −0.1 | 163,562 |
| Livable Netherlands | 2 | 1.6 | 153,055 | ||
| General Senior Union / United Seniors Party | 0 | 0.4 | 39,005 |
± is the change against the Netherlands 1998 general election, party by party.
Votes by party
- Christian Democratic Appeal 2,653,723
- Pim Fortuyn List 1,614,801
- People's Party for Freedom and Democracy 1,466,722
- Labour Party 1,436,023
- GroenLinks 660,692
- Socialist Party 560,447
- Democrats 66 484,317
- Christian Union 240,953
- Reformed Political Party 163,562
- Livable Netherlands 153,055
- General Senior Union / United Seniors Party 39,005
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
79.1% of the 12,035,935 registered voters cast a ballot (9,515,226 ballots), up 5.7 points on 1998. 9,501,152 of them were valid votes. The highest turnout since 1989 in our data. How turnout is counted.
Votes and seats
- Christian Democratic Appeal27.9% of votes28.7% of seats
- Pim Fortuyn List17.0% of votes17.3% of seats
- People's Party for Freedom and Democracy15.4% of votes16.0% of seats
- Labour Party15.1% of votes15.3% of seats
- GroenLinks7.0% of votes6.7% of seats
- Socialist Party5.9% of votes6.0% of seats
- Democrats 665.1% of votes4.7% of seats
- Christian Union2.5% of votes2.7% of seats
- Reformed Political Party1.7% of votes1.3% of seats
- Livable Netherlands1.6% of votes1.3% of seats
The Gallagher index of disproportionality is 0.9 (0 when seats follow votes exactly); the effective number of parties is 6.0 by votes and 5.8 by seats; Christian Democratic Appeal led Pim Fortuyn List by 10.9 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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