1999 European Parliament election in the Netherlands

1999 European Parliament election in the Netherlands

← 1994 10 June 1999 2004 →
31 seats to the European Parliament
Turnout	30.02%
First party Second party Third party   Leader Hanja Maij-Weggen Max van den Berg Jan-Kees Wiebenga Party CDA PvdA VVD Alliance EPP-ED PES ELDR Seats won 9 / 31 6 / 31 6 / 31 Seat change 1 2 0 Popular vote 954,898 712,929 698,050 Percentage 26.94% 20.11% 19.69% Swing 3.9% 2.8% 2.2%   Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party   Leader Joost Lagendijk Hans Blokland Lousewies van der Laan Party GL SGP/RPF/GPV D66 Alliance Greens-EFA EDD ELDR Seats won 4 / 31 3 / 31 2 / 31 Seat change 3 1 2 Popular vote 419,869 309,612 205,623 Percentage 11.85% 8.74% 5.80% Swing 8.1% 0.9% 5.9%   Seventh party   Leader Erik Meijer Party SP Alliance EUL/NGL Seats won 1 / 31 Seat change 1 Popular vote 178,642 Percentage 5.04% Swing 3.7

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An election of Members of the European Parliament representing Netherlands constituency for the 1999–2004 term of the European Parliament was held on 10 June 1999. It was part of the wider 1999 European election. Eleven parties competed in a D'Hondt type election for 31 seats.

Several parties combined in one list to take part in this European Election and increase their chance on a seat in the European Parliament. These combined lists are:

1. SGP, RPF and GPV

No lists formed an electoral alliance.

The official order and names of candidate lists:

Voter turnout was a record low for a national election of just 30.02%. In the election the GreenLeft performed particularly well quadrupling their seats from one to four. The Socialist Party 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.

The EPP-ED group becomes the biggest group this election despite losing seat. This because the ELDR group in the Netherlands lost 2 seats from the Democrats 66. The EG-EFA group makes a big gain in seat, thanks to the win of GreenLeft. The Socialist Party won EUL-NGL its first seat in the Netherlands.

Summary of the 10 June 1999 European Parliament elections in the Netherlands

← 1994 1999 2004 →
European group			Seats 1994	Seats 1999	Change
	European People's Party–European Democrats	EPP-ED	10	9	1
	European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party	ELDR	10	8	2
	Party of European Socialists	PES	8	6	2
	The Greens–European Free Alliance	Greens-EFA	1	4	3
	Europe of Democracies and Diversities	EDD	2	3	1
	European United Left–Nordic Green Left	EUL-NGL	0	1	1
	Non-Inscrits	NI	0	0	0
			31	31	0