Dutch general election, 1981
Dutch general election, 1981
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All 150 seats to the House of Representatives
76 seats were needed for a majority
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| Turnout |
87.0% |
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First party |
Second party |
Third party |
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| Leader |
Dries van Agt |
Joop den Uyl |
Hans Wiegel |
| Party |
CDA |
PvdA |
VVD |
| Leader since |
1976 |
1966 |
1971 |
| Last election |
49 seats, 31.9% |
53 seats, 33.8% |
28 seats, 17.9% |
| Seats won |
48 |
44 |
26 |
| Seat change |
 1 |
9 |
2 |
| Popular vote |
2,677,259 |
2,458,452 |
1,505,311 |
| Percentage |
30.8% |
28.3% |
17.3% |
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Fourth party |
Fifth party |
Sixth party |
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| Leader |
Jan Terlouw |
Fred van der Spek |
Marcus Bakker |
| Party |
D66 |
PSP |
CPN |
| Leader since |
1973 |
1978 |
1963 |
| Last election |
8 seats, 5.4% |
1 seats, 0.9% |
2 seats, 1.7% |
| Seats won |
17 |
3 |
3 |
| Seat change |
 9 |
2 |
1 |
| Popular vote |
961,121 |
184,422 |
178,292 |
| Percentage |
11.1% |
2.1% |
2.1% |
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Seventh party |
Eighth party |
Ninth party |
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| Leader |
Henk van Rossum |
Ria Beckers |
Meindert Leerling |
| Party |
SGP |
PPR |
RPF |
| Leader since |
1981 |
1977 |
1980 |
| Last election |
3 seats, 2.1% |
3 seats, 1.7% |
0 seats, 0.6% |
| Seats won |
3 |
3 |
2 |
| Seat change |
 0 |
0 |
2 |
| Popular vote |
171,324 |
171,042 |
108,364 |
| Percentage |
2.0% |
2.0% |
1.2% |
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Dries van Agt
CDA
Dries van Agt
CDA
General elections were held in the Netherlands on 26 May 1981. The Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA) emerged as the largest party, winning 48 of the 150 seats in the House of Representatives.
The incumbent Christian Democratic Appeal-People's Party for Freedom and Democracy coalition lost its overall majority leading to a new coalition being formed between the CDA, the Labour Party (PvdA) and Democrats 66, with the CDA's Dries van Agt continuing as Prime Minister. However due to disagreements between the CDA and PvdA on government spending the coalition collapsed after just a year, leading to fresh elections.
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