1959 Dutch general election

1959 Dutch general election
Netherlands
12 March 1959
All 150 seats in the House of Representatives
76 seats needed for a majority
Turnout95.57% (Increase 0.07pp)
Party Leader Vote % Seats +/–
KVP Carl Romme 31.60 49 0
PvdA Jaap Burger 30.36 48 −2
VVD Pieter Oud 12.21 19 +6
ARP Jelle Zijlstra 9.39 14 −1
CHU Henk Beernink 8.11 12 −1
CPN Paul de Groot 2.41 3 −4
SGP Pieter Zandt 2.16 3 0
PSP Henk Lankhorst, Nico van der Veen 1.84 2 New
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
Most voted-for party by municipality
Cabinet before Cabinet after
Second Beel cabinet
KVP–ARP–CHU		 De Quay cabinet
KVP–VVD–ARP–CHU

General elections were held in the Netherlands on 12 March 1959.[1] The Catholic People's Party emerged as the largest party, winning 49 of the 150 seats in the House of Representatives.[2]

Results

PartyVotes%Seats+/–
Catholic People's Party1,895,91431.60490
Labour Party1,821,28530.3648–2
People's Party for Freedom and Democracy732,65812.2119+6
Anti-Revolutionary Party563,0919.3914–1
Christian Historical Union486,4298.1112–1
Communist Party of the Netherlands144,5422.413–4
Reformed Political Party129,6782.1630
Pacifist Socialist Party110,4991.842New
Reformed Political League39,9720.6700
Farmers' Party39,4230.660New
Brug Group34,7230.580New
Positive Christian National Union1,3170.020New
Total5,999,531100.001500
Valid votes5,999,53197.66
Invalid/blank votes143,8782.34
Total votes6,143,409100.00
Registered voters/turnout6,427,86495.57
Source: CBS,[3] Nohlen & Stöver

By province

Results by province[4]
Province KVP PvdA VVD ARP CHU CPN SGP PSP Others
Drenthe 6.9 42.5 18.4 15.3 11.5 1.9 0.2 0.6 2.6
Friesland 6.9 38.7 10.4 21.9 16.2 2.0 0.7 1.7 1.5
Gelderland 31.9 29.1 11.0 9.1 12.2 0.6 3.6 0.7 1.8
Groningen 5.8 40.7 16.0 16.8 9.3 4.8 0.2 1.7 4.7
Limburg 79.5 15.0 2.5 1.0 0.7 0.7 0.1 0.2 0.3
North Brabant 74.0 15.2 4.2 2.6 2.3 0.4 0.6 0.3 0.4
North Holland 23.4 33.1 16.8 7.5 4.9 6.1 0.6 4.7 2.9
Overijssel 28.1 30.0 9.6 10.1 12.9 2.4 2.7 0.9 3.1
South Holland 18.5 36.4 15.4 11.3 9.0 2.1 3.8 2.0 1.5
Southern IJsselmeer Polders 24.4 24.7 9.7 20.0 15.4 0.4 2.1 0.8 2.5
Utrecht 25.5 29.7 13.8 12.3 10.6 0.9 3.3 1.5 2.4
Zeeland 21.1 29.3 11.1 12.5 14.9 0.4 8.8 0.4 1.5

References

  1. ^ Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p1396 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7
  2. ^ Nohlen & Stöver, p1413
  3. ^ "Verkiezingsuitslag en zetelverdeling Tweede Kamer, 1959". CBS.
  4. ^ "Tweede Kamer 12 maart 1959". Kiesraad (in Dutch). Retrieved 28 November 2023.
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