Dutch general election, 1986

Dutch general election, 1986

21 May 1986
All 150 seats to the House of Representatives 76 seats were needed for a majority
Turnout	85.8%
First party Second party Third party   Leader Ruud Lubbers Joop den Uyl Ed Nijpels Party CDA PvdA VVD Leader since 1982 1966 1982 Last election 45 seats, 29.4% 47 seats, 30.4% 36 seats, 23.1% Seats won 54 52 27 Seat change 9 5 9 Popular vote 3,172,918 3,051,678 1,596,991 Percentage 34.6% 33.3% 17.4%   Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party   Leader Hans van Mierlo Bas van der Vlies Ria Beckers Party D66 SGP PPR Leader since 1986 1986 1977 Last election 6 seats, 4.3% 3 seats, 1.8% 2 seats, 1.7% Seats won 9 3 2 Seat change 3 0 0 Popular vote 562,466 159,740 115,203 Percentage 6.1% 1.7% 1.3%   Seventh party Eighth party Ninth party   Leader Andrée van Es Gert Schutte Meindert Leerling Party PSP GPV RPF Leader since 1985 1981 1980 Last election 3 seats, 2.3% 1 seats, 0.8% 2 seats, 1.5% Seats won 1 1 1 Seat change 2 0 1 Popular vote 110,182 88,381 83,582 Percentage 1.2% 1.0% 0.9%
Prime Minister before election Ruud Lubbers CDA Prime Minister Ruud Lubbers CDA

General elections were held in the Netherlands on 21 May 1986.^[1] The Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA) emerged as the largest party, winning 54 of the 150 seats in the House of Representatives.^[2]

The incumbent CDA-VVD coalition maintained exactly the same number of seats as they had achieved at the last general election and continued working together in government with the CDA's Ruud Lubbers as Prime Minister.

Results

References

Further reading

• Gladdish, Ken. "The Centre Holds: the 1986 Netherlands Election," West European Politics (1987). 10#1 pp. 115-119