European Parliament election, 1984 (Netherlands)
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The European Parliament election of 1984 in the Netherlands was the election of MEP representing Netherlands constituency for the 1984-1989 term of the European Parliament. It was part of the wider 1984 European election.
In these elections both the leftwing CPN, PSP and PPR parties and the orthodox protestant SGP, GPV, RPF parties have formed a successful common lists, which win two respectively one seat. the progressive liberal D'66 looses its two seats and disappears from the parliament. 50.9% of the Dutch population turned out on election day.
[edit] Results
| Party | Abbr. | EU party | % | Change | Seats | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour Party | PvdA | PES | 33.7 | +3.3 | 9 | +1 |
| Christian Democratic Appeal | CDA | EPP-ED | 30.0 | -5.6 | 8 | -2 |
| People's Party for Freedom and Democracy | VVD | ELDR | 18.9 | +2.8 | 5 | +1 |
| Communist Party of the Netherlands-Pacifist Socialist Party-Political Party Radicals | CPN-PSP-PPR "Green Progressive Alliance" | Rainbow group | 5,6 | +.3* | 2 | +2 |
| Political Reformed Party-Reformed Political Alliance-Reformatory Political Federation | SGP-GPV-RPF | NI | 5.2 | +1.9* | 1 | +1 |
| Centre Democrats | CD | none | 2.5 | +2.5 | 0 | 0 |
| Democrats '66 | D66 | ELDR | 2.3 | -6.7 | 0 | -2 |
| European Greens | EG | none | 1.3 | +1.3 | 0 | 0 |
| Others | 0.4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Total | 25 | 0 | ||||
*: these parties polled separately in the 1979 elections
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