European Parliament election, 1999 (Netherlands)

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The European Parliament election of 1999 in the Netherlands was the election of MEP representing Netherlands constituency for the 1999-2004 term of the European Parliament. It was part of the wider 1999 European election.

With only 30 percent of the population showing up, the voter turnout hit an all-time low for Dutch elections on the national level. In the election the GreenLeft performed particularly well quadrupling their seats from one to four, the Socialist Party also won its first seat. These gains were made at the cost of the Christian Democratic Appeal, Democrats 66 and the PvdA, which lost one, two and two seats respectively.

[edit] Results

Party Abbr. EU party  % Change Seats
Christian Democratic Appeal CDA EPP-ED 26.9 -3.9 9 -1
Labour Party PvdA PES 20.1 -2.8 6 -2
People's Party for Freedom and Democracy VVD ELDR 19.7 +2.2 6 0
Green-Left GL EGP-EFA 11.8 +8.1 4 +3
Political Reformed Party-Reformed Political Alliance-Reformatory Political Federation SGP-GPV-RPF EDD 8.7 +0.9 3 +1
Democrats '66 D66 ELDR 5.8 -5.9 2 -2
Socialist Party SP EUL-NGL 5.0 +3.7 1 +1
Centre Democrats CD none 0.5 -0.5 0 0
Others 1.3 -1.6 0 0
Total     31 0