2009 European Parliament election in the Netherlands

2009 European Parliament election in the Netherlands

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25 seats to the European Parliament
Turnout	36.75%
First party Second party Third party   Leader Wim van de Camp Barry Madlener Thijs Berman Party CDA PVV PvdA Alliance EPP NI PES Seats won 5 / 25 4 / 25 3 / 25 Seat change 2 4 4 Popular vote 913,233 772,746 548,691 Percentage 20.05% 16.97% 12.05% Swing 4.33% new 11.60%   Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party   Leader Hans van Baalen Sophie in 't Veld Judith Sargentini Party VVD D66 GL Alliance ALDE ALDE Greens-EFA Seats won 3 / 25 3 / 25 3 / 25 Seat change 1 2 1 Popular vote 518,643 515,422 404,020 Percentage 11.39% 11.32% 8.87% Swing 1.81% 7.08% 1.53%   Seventh party Eighth party   Leader Dennis de Jong Peter van Dalen Party SP CU–SGP Alliance EUL/NGL ECR / EFD Seats won 2 / 25 2 / 25 Seat change 0 0 Popular vote 323,269 310,540 Percentage 7.10% 6.82% Swing 0.13% 0.91%

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An election of

1. Christian Union-SGP
   , with 1,223,773 votes
2. VVD/European Liberal-Democrats and Democrats 66
   , with 1,034,065 votes
3. GreenLeft
   , with 952,711 votes

All three alliances would be eligible for a remainder seat, because all the parties involved won a seat in the European Parliament. Without the alliance between the Dutch Labour Party and Greenleft, GreenLeft would have only two seats and PVV would have five seats. The other electoral alliances had no effect on the overall seats awarded.[1]

The

Under the

The Party for the Animals contested this proposal, claiming that the minister ignored part of the Electoral Council's opinion. They raised their objection after the official results came in. Under the Electoral Council's opinion, the Party for the Animals should have gained the seat.^[4]

Several parties in the

At present, the exact number of seats allocated to each country is determined by the Treaty of Nice, and is adjusted by the accession treaty of each new member. This last adjustment occurred with the enlargement in 2007. Hence no change to the seats occurs without ratification by all member states. According to the treaties, the maximum number of members in the Parliament is 732. However, allocation does not take into account any enlargements to the European Union expected during the Parliamentary term. Hence, when Romania and Bulgaria joined the union in 2007, the number of seats temporarily rose to 785, but later dropped back to 736 at time of the 2009 election. Because of this, the Netherlands had 27 seats in 2004 but only 25 in 2009.

The official order and names of candidate lists:

The Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA) remained the biggest party (five seats), despite losing two seats. The biggest winners were the Party for Freedom (up four seats) and Democrats 66 (up two). The biggest loser was the Labour Party, which lost more than half its seats (down four).

Voter turnout was 36.75%, a little lower than in 2004 (39.26%). The highest turnout was in Rozendaal (65.7%) and the lowest in Rucphen (22.3%).

The

split into two groups in the European parliament.

Summary of the 4 June 2009 European Parliament elections in the Netherlands

← 2004 2009 2014 →
European group			Seats 2004	Seats 2009	Change
	Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe	ALDE	5	6	1
	European People's Party	EPP	7	5	2
	Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats	S&D	7	3	4
	The Greens–European Free Alliance	Greens-EFA	4	3	1
	European United Left–Nordic Green Left	EUL-NGL	2	2	0
	European Conservatives and Reformists	ECR	0	1	1
	Europe of Freedom and Democracy	EFD	2	1	1
	Non-Inscrits	NI	0	4(+1)	4(+1)
			27	25(+1)	2(+1)

Elected members

Twenty members were elected by preference vote. Twenty-four people got this amount,^[1] but not all could be appointed because either the party did not get enough seats or they got no seats.

Members not elected, but enough preference votes:

• Christian Democratic Appeal – Maria Martens 38,781 votes. (party did not win enough seats)
• Socialist Party – Nicole van Gemert 23,662 votes. (party did not win enough seats)
• Party for Animals – Natasja Oerlemans 115,472 votes and Marianne Thieme 18,314 votes (party did not win any seat)