1994 European Parliament election in the Netherlands

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31 seats to theEuropean Parliament
Turnout	35.69%
First party Second party Third party   Leader Hanja Maij-Weggen Hedy d'Ancona Gijs de Vries Party CDA PvdA VVD Alliance EPP PES ELDR Seats won 10 / 31 8 / 31 6 / 31 Seat change 0 0 3 Popular vote 1,271,855 945,869 740,443 Percentage 30.77% 22.88% 17.91% Swing 3.8% 7.8% 3.7%   Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party   Leader Jan-Willem Bertens Leen van der Waal Nel van Dijk Party D66 SGP/RPF/GPV GL Alliance ELDR EN /I-EN Greens-EFA Seats won 4 / 31 2 / 31 1 / 31 Seat change 3 1 1 Popular vote 481,843 322,793 154,547 Percentage 11.66% 7.81% 3.74% Swing 5.7% 1.9% 3.3%

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An election ofMembers of the European Parliament representingNetherlands constituency for the 1994–1999 term of theEuropean Parliament was held on 9 June 1994. It was part of the wider1994 European election. Eleven parties competed in aD'Hondt type election for 31 seats (up from 25).

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 andGPV

No lists formed anelectoral alliance.

All subjects from other member states in the Netherlands were allowed to vote this election. It's no longer necessary that the member state of which the subject is from does the same.Only for this election no ahead registration had to take place to take part.

These people got right to vote in this fifth election for the European Parliament in 1994 in the Netherlands:^[1]

• Everyone who was allowed to vote in the Dutch parliament elections;
• Dutch who are resident anywhere in the world and did not already have voting rights for the Dutch Parliament elections; (except for Dutch living in theNetherlands Antilles andAruba, because they vote for theEstates of the Netherlands Antilles. Dutch from the Netherlands Antilles en Aruba are allowed to vote for European Elections if they lived for at least 10 years in the Netherlands.)
• Subjects of one of the other Member States which have residence in the Netherlands.

The official order and names of candidate lists:

The liberalVVD andD66 parties and the orthodox Protestant alliance ofPolitical Reformed Party,Reformatory Political Federation andReformed Political Alliance profited from the expansion of the number of seats. While theChristian Democratic Appeal and theLabour Party lost a considerable number of votes, but remained stabile in seats. 35.69% of Dutch citizensturned out on election day.

Summary of the 9 June 1994European Parliament elections in the Netherlands

← 1989 1994 1999 →
European group			Seats 1989	Seats 1994	Change
	European People's Party	EPP	10	10	0
	European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party	ELDR	4	10	6
	Party of European Socialists	PES	8	8	0
	Green Group in the European Parliament	G/EFA	2	1	1
	Europe of Nations	EN	0	2	2
	Non-Inscrits	NI	1	0	1
			25	31	6

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