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This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
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General elections were held in the Netherlands on 28 April 1971. [1] The Labour Party (PvdA) emerged as the largest party, winning 39 of the 150 seats in the House of Representatives. [2] The elections were the first without compulsory voting, causing a sharp fall in voter turnout, down to 79% from 95% in the 1967 elections. [3] Barend Biesheuvel of the Anti-Revolutionary Party (ARP) became prime minister, leading the first Biesheuvel cabinet.
His cabinet contained a broad coalition of parties, with ministers from ARP, Christian Historical Union (both Protestant), the Catholic People's Party, the conservative-liberal People's Party for Freedom and Democracy and moderate socialist Democratic Socialists '70 (DS'70), which had just split off from the PvdA.
However, Biesheuvel's government was short-lived; following a decision to cut government spending, DS'70 withdrew from the government, causing it to lose its majority and fresh elections to be held after just a year and seven months.
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Party | Votes | % | Seats | +/– | |
Labour Party | 1,554,733 | 24.60 | 39 | +2 | |
Catholic People's Party | 1,380,365 | 21.84 | 35 | –7 | |
People's Party for Freedom and Democracy | 653,606 | 10.34 | 16 | –1 | |
Anti-Revolutionary Party | 542,874 | 8.59 | 13 | –2 | |
Democrats 1966 | 428,150 | 6.77 | 11 | +4 | |
Christian Historical Union | 399,164 | 6.32 | 10 | –2 | |
Democratic Socialists '70 | 336,788 | 5.33 | 8 | New | |
Communist Party of the Netherlands | 246,594 | 3.90 | 6 | +1 | |
Reformed Political Party | 148,221 | 2.35 | 3 | 0 | |
Political Party of Radicals | 116,065 | 1.84 | 2 | New | |
Reformed Political League | 101,797 | 1.61 | 2 | +1 | |
New Middle Party | 95,653 | 1.51 | 2 | New | |
Pacifist Socialist Party | 90,752 | 1.44 | 2 | –2 | |
Farmers' Party | 69,678 | 1.10 | 1 | –6 | |
General Elderly Party of the Netherlands | 26,881 | 0.43 | 0 | New | |
Dutch Appeal | 24,379 | 0.39 | 0 | New | |
New Roman Catholic Party | 23,061 | 0.36 | 0 | New | |
Kabouters | 21,988 | 0.35 | 0 | New | |
Elderly and Labour Party | 21,489 | 0.34 | 0 | New | |
Binding Right | 15,137 | 0.24 | 0 | New | |
Democrats 2000 | 7,189 | 0.11 | 0 | New | |
Elderly Party 65+ | 5,784 | 0.09 | 0 | New | |
Van Velsen List | 3,676 | 0.06 | 0 | New | |
Elderly Party General Interest | 1,843 | 0.03 | 0 | New | |
Stichting Gedupeerde Groepen 18+ t/m 65+ | 1,648 | 0.03 | 0 | New | |
Rural Party for the Elderly | 1,620 | 0.03 | 0 | New | |
Party of the Right | 477 | 0.01 | 0 | 0 | |
Positive Social Democrats | 400 | 0.01 | 0 | New | |
Total | 6,320,012 | 100.00 | 150 | 0 | |
Valid votes | 6,320,012 | 99.27 | |||
Invalid/blank votes | 46,567 | 0.73 | |||
Total votes | 6,366,579 | 100.00 | |||
Registered voters/turnout | 8,046,969 | 79.12 | |||
Source: Kiesraad |
Province | PvdA | KVP | VVD | ARP | D'66 | CHU | DS'70 | CPN | SGP | PPR | GPV | NMP | PSP | BP | Others |
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![]() | 35.6 | 5.9 | 13.5 | 14.3 | 4.3 | 8.8 | 3.9 | 4.0 | 0.4 | 0.8 | 2.8 | 1.9 | 0.7 | 1.5 | 1.7 |
![]() | 31.5 | 5.2 | 7.8 | 21.5 | 4.1 | 12.5 | 3.1 | 3.5 | 1.0 | 1.2 | 3.0 | 2.1 | 1.4 | 0.9 | 1.3 |
![]() | 24.2 | 22.1 | 10.0 | 8.5 | 5.5 | 9.5 | 4.8 | 1.2 | 4.0 | 1.6 | 1.4 | 1.8 | 1.1 | 1.7 | 2.8 |
![]() | 31.8 | 4.1 | 10.8 | 15.4 | 4.1 | 6.7 | 4.1 | 11.0 | 0.3 | 1.3 | 5.2 | 1.5 | 1.5 | 0.8 | 1.4 |
![]() | 14.6 | 54.2 | 5.2 | 1.6 | 7.3 | 0.7 | 4.3 | 2.4 | 0.1 | 2.4 | 0.2 | 1.1 | 1.1 | 1.5 | 3.5 |
![]() | 14.2 | 49.3 | 7.1 | 3.4 | 6.9 | 1.9 | 4.1 | 1.5 | 0.6 | 2.7 | 0.4 | 1.5 | 1.3 | 2.0 | 3.1 |
![]() | 25.2 | 16.0 | 12.2 | 6.4 | 8.5 | 3.6 | 7.7 | 9.0 | 0.6 | 2.3 | 0.9 | 1.5 | 2.4 | 0.7 | 2.9 |
![]() | 23.8 | 23.0 | 8.0 | 9.7 | 4.8 | 10.7 | 4.0 | 2.9 | 3.2 | 1.2 | 3.0 | 1.7 | 0.9 | 1.6 | 1.6 |
![]() | 29.8 | 12.4 | 12.2 | 9.7 | 8.2 | 6.8 | 5.6 | 3.0 | 4.0 | 1.4 | 1.5 | 1.3 | 1.3 | 0.5 | 2.3 |
![]() | 19.2 | 13.8 | 12.6 | 18.6 | 7.3 | 10.5 | 5.9 | 1.5 | 1.7 | 2.8 | 3.1 | 0.4 | 1.2 | 0.5 | 0.9 |
![]() | 21.4 | 17.3 | 13.3 | 10.0 | 6.4 | 8.4 | 7.6 | 1.8 | 3.7 | 2.0 | 2.4 | 1.2 | 1.6 | 0.8 | 2.2 |
![]() | 25.0 | 13.4 | 9.9 | 11.3 | 4.3 | 11.5 | 3.2 | 0.8 | 9.3 | 2.9 | 2.3 | 2.7 | 0.5 | 1.3 | 1.5 |
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