1982 Dutch general election

1982 Dutch general election

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Turnout	81.0% ( 6.0 pp)
Party Leader % Seats +/– PvdA Joop den Uyl 30.4% 47 +3 CDA Dries van Agt 29.4% 45 -3 VVD Ed Nijpels 23.1% 36 +10 D66 Jan Terlouw 4.3% 6 -11 PSP 2.3% 3 0 SGP Henk van Rossum 1.9% 3 0 CPN Ina Brouwer 1.8% 3 0 PPR Ria Beckers 1.5% 2 -1 RPF Meindert Leerling 1.5% 2 0 CP Hans Janmaat 0.8% 1 +1 GPV Gert Schutte 0.8% 1 0 EVP Cathy Ubels-Veen 0.7% 1 +1 This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below. Prime Minister before Prime Minister after Dries van Agt CDA Ruud Lubbers CDA

Early general elections were held in the Netherlands on 8 September 1982.^[1] The Labour Party emerged as the largest party, winning 47 of the 150 seats in the House of Representatives;^[2] however, this would be the last time it did so until 1994.

Following the election the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA) formed a coalition government with the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy, with the CDA's Ruud Lubbers becoming Prime Minister.

Results[]

Party		Votes	%	Seats	+/–
	Labour Party	2,503,517	30.40	47	+3
	Christian Democratic Appeal	2,420,441	29.39	45	–3
	People's Party for Freedom and Democracy	1,900,763	23.08	36	+10
	Democrats 66	351,278	4.26	6	–11
	Pacifist Socialist Party	187,547	2.28	3	0
	Reformed Political Party	156,636	1.90	3	0
	Communist Party of the Netherlands	147,753	1.79	3	0
	Political Party of Radicals	136,446	1.66	2	–1
	Reformatory Political Federation	124,235	1.51	2	0
	Centre Party	68,423	0.83	1	+1
	Reformed Political League	67,163	0.82	1	0
	Evangelical People's Party	56,466	0.69	1	+1
	Socialist Party	44,959	0.55	0	0
	Democratic Socialists '70	31,047	0.38	0	0
	Right-wing People's Party	21,987	0.27	0	0
	Roman Catholic Party of the Netherlands	12,689	0.15	0	0
	God with Us	3,157	0.04	0	0
	Dutch Peoples-Union	1,632	0.02	0	0
	Progressive Party for the Preservation of Work, Environment and Society	250	0.00	0	New
	Small Party	127	0.00	0	0
Total		8,236,516	100.00	150	0
Valid votes		8,236,516	99.55
Invalid/blank votes		37,115	0.45
Total votes		8,273,631	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		10,216,627	80.98
Source: Kiesraad

By province[]

Results by province^[3]

Province	PvdA	CDA	VVD	D'66	PSP	SGP	CPN	PPR	RPF	CP	GPV	EVP	Others
Drenthe	41.1	23.7	21.8	3.9	1.3	0.2	1.3	1.3	1.7	0.2	1.6	1.0	2.0
Friesland	37.0	31.5	17.6	3.2	1.5	0.6	1.3	1.3	2.3	0.2	1.4	1.4	2.0
Gelderland	28.0	32.5	22.3	4.2	2.1	3.3	0.8	1.8	2.1	0.3	0.5	0.8	1.2
Groningen	42.2	20.9	16.9	3.4	2.3	0.2	4.2	1.7	1.8	0.2	3.8	1.3	1.3
Limburg	26.1	42.9	18.6	4.7	2.2	0.0	1.0	1.9	0.2	0.2	0.1	0.1	0.7
North Brabant	24.6	40.1	22.3	4.6	2.2	0.5	0.8	1.7	0.4	0.4	0.1	0.3	1.0
North Holland	31.6	21.7	27.2	4.5	3.7	0.4	4.3	2.0	0.9	1.4	0.3	0.6	1.3
Overijssel	28.3	36.3	18.1	3.9	1.3	2.6	1.0	1.4	2.8	0.3	2.1	0.7	0.9
South Holland	33.1	22.9	25.1	4.2	2.0	3.4	1.5	1.4	1.8	1.7	0.6	0.7	1.6
Southern IJsselmeer Polders	35.6	18.5	25.5	5.1	2.2	0.5	4.0	2.0	1.4	1.8	0.9	1.0	1.4
Utrecht	25.3	27.3	27.6	4.5	2.6	2.8	1.4	1.9	2.2	0.8	1.4	0.9	1.1
Zeeland	27.9	27.4	23.2	4.1	1.3	8.2	0.6	1.4	2.3	0.5	1.2	0.9	1.5

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