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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 25 May 1977. [1] The Labour Party remained the largest party, winning 53 of the 150 seats in the House of Representatives. [2] Following the election, it took 208 days of negotiations to form a new government. This was a European record for longest government formation that stood until after the 2010 Belgian general election. [3] The Christian Democratic Appeal was formed by the Anti-Revolutionary Party (ARP), Christian Historical Union (CHU) and the Catholic People's Party (KVP) in 1976. The first joint party leader was a member of the KVP, Dries van Agt.
Eventually a coalition was formed between the Christian Democratic Appeal and the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy with Dries van Agt as Prime Minister.
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Party | Votes | % | Seats | +/– | |
Labour Party | 2,813,793 | 33.83 | 53 | +10 | |
Christian Democratic Appeal | 2,652,278 | 31.89 | 49 | +1 | |
People's Party for Freedom and Democracy | 1,492,689 | 17.95 | 28 | +6 | |
Democrats 66 | 452,423 | 5.44 | 8 | +2 | |
Reformed Political Party | 177,010 | 2.13 | 3 | 0 | |
Communist Party of the Netherlands | 143,481 | 1.73 | 2 | –5 | |
Political Party of Radicals | 140,910 | 1.69 | 3 | –4 | |
Reformed Political League | 79,421 | 0.95 | 1 | –1 | |
Pacifist Socialist Party | 77,972 | 0.94 | 1 | –1 | |
Farmers' Party | 69,914 | 0.84 | 1 | –2 | |
Democratic Socialists '70 | 59,487 | 0.72 | 1 | –5 | |
Reformatory Political Federation | 53,220 | 0.64 | 0 | New | |
Dutch People's Union | 33,434 | 0.40 | 0 | New | |
Roman Catholic Party of the Netherlands | 33,227 | 0.40 | 0 | –1 | |
Socialist Party | 24,420 | 0.29 | 0 | New | |
Federation of Elderly Parties of the Netherlands | 4,379 | 0.05 | 0 | New | |
Union Against Arbitrariness of Civil Servants | 4,110 | 0.05 | 0 | New | |
Communist Unity Movement of the Netherlands | 2,649 | 0.03 | 0 | New | |
Democratic Action Centre | 2,150 | 0.03 | 0 | New | |
Party of the Taxpayers | 201 | 0.00 | 0 | New | |
European Conservative Union | 197 | 0.00 | 0 | New | |
Jusia List | 91 | 0.00 | 0 | New | |
Dutch Middle Class Party | 89 | 0.00 | 0 | 0 | |
Griek List | 67 | 0.00 | 0 | New | |
Total | 8,317,612 | 100.00 | 150 | 0 | |
Valid votes | 8,317,612 | 99.42 | |||
Invalid/blank votes | 48,217 | 0.58 | |||
Total votes | 8,365,829 | 100.00 | |||
Registered voters/turnout | 9,497,999 | 88.08 | |||
Source: Kiesraad |
Province | PvdA | CDA | VVD | D'66 | SGP | CPN | PPR | GPV | PSP | BP | DS'70 | Others |
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![]() | 41.5 | 27.1 | 18.2 | 4.4 | 0.4 | 1.2 | 1.4 | 1.8 | 0.6 | 1.3 | 0.6 | 1.5 |
![]() | 37.3 | 37.4 | 12.3 | 4.4 | 0.9 | 1.5 | 1.3 | 1.6 | 0.8 | 0.6 | 0.6 | 1.3 |
![]() | 30.8 | 35.5 | 17.2 | 4.8 | 3.7 | 0.6 | 1.7 | 0.7 | 0.9 | 1.4 | 0.5 | 2.2 |
![]() | 42.4 | 24.3 | 14.4 | 4.4 | 0.3 | 4.3 | 1.9 | 4.0 | 1.3 | 0.7 | 0.6 | 1.4 |
![]() | 30.1 | 44.6 | 14.7 | 3.3 | 0.1 | 1.1 | 1.9 | 0.1 | 0.7 | 1.0 | 0.4 | 2.0 |
![]() | 28.8 | 43.7 | 15.7 | 5.0 | 0.5 | 0.6 | 1.6 | 0.2 | 0.8 | 1.1 | 0.5 | 1.5 |
![]() | 35.4 | 22.9 | 21.7 | 7.3 | 0.5 | 4.5 | 2.1 | 0.4 | 1.5 | 0.6 | 1.2 | 1.9 |
![]() | 31.0 | 39.5 | 13.2 | 4.2 | 2.9 | 1.1 | 1.3 | 2.2 | 0.5 | 1.2 | 0.4 | 2.5 |
![]() | 37.9 | 24.6 | 19.9 | 6.1 | 3.8 | 1.3 | 1.5 | 0.8 | 0.8 | 0.4 | 0.9 | 2.0 |
![]() | 33.1 | 29.0 | 18.9 | 6.7 | 1.0 | 2.9 | 2.8 | 1.3 | 0.6 | 0.6 | 0.7 | 2.4 |
![]() | 28.2 | 30.5 | 22.1 | 6.6 | 3.2 | 0.9 | 1.9 | 1.6 | 1.3 | 0.7 | 0.7 | 2.3 |
![]() | 32.6 | 29.8 | 17.3 | 4.4 | 8.4 | 0.4 | 1.5 | 1.6 | 0.5 | 1.0 | 0.6 | 1.9 |
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