1982 Dutch general election

Early general elections were held in the Netherlands on 8 September 1982.^[1] The Labour Party emerged as the largest party, winning 47 of the 150 seats in the House of Representatives;^[2] however, this would be the last time it did so until 1994.

1982 Dutch general election

← 1981 8 September 1982 1986 →
All 150 seats in the House of Representatives 76 seats needed for a majority
Turnout	81.0% ( 6.0 pp)
Party Leader % Seats +/– PvdA Joop den Uyl 30.4% 47 +3 CDA Dries van Agt 29.4% 45 −3 VVD Ed Nijpels 23.1% 36 +10 D66 Jan Terlouw 4.3% 6 −11 PSP Fred van der Spek 2.3% 3 0 SGP Henk van Rossum 1.9% 3 0 CPN Ina Brouwer 1.8% 3 0 PPR Ria Beckers 1.5% 2 −1 RPF Meindert Leerling 1.5% 2 0 CP Hans Janmaat 0.8% 1 +1 GPV Gert Schutte 0.8% 1 0 EVP Cathy Ubels-Veen 0.7% 1 +1 This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below. Most voted-for party by municipality Cabinet before Cabinet after Third Van Agt cabinet CDA–D66 First Lubbers cabinet CDA–VVD

The Centre Party received 0.8% of the vote, winning one seat, which was taken by Hans Janmaat. This was the first time since World War II that a party considered to be right-wing extremist won a seat in the Dutch parliament.

Following the election the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA) formed a coalition government with the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy, with the CDA's Ruud Lubbers becoming Prime Minister.

Results

Party		Votes	%	Seats	+/–
	Labour Party	2,503,517	30.40	47	+3
	Christian Democratic Appeal	2,420,441	29.39	45	–3
	People's Party for Freedom and Democracy	1,900,763	23.08	36	+10
	Democrats 66	351,278	4.26	6	–11
	Pacifist Socialist Party	187,547	2.28	3	0
	Reformed Political Party	156,636	1.90	3	0
	Communist Party of the Netherlands	147,753	1.79	3	0
	Political Party of Radicals	136,446	1.66	2	–1
	Reformatory Political Federation	124,235	1.51	2	0
	Centre Party	68,423	0.83	1	+1
	Reformed Political League	67,163	0.82	1	0
	Evangelical People's Party	56,466	0.69	1	+1
	Socialist Party	44,959	0.55	0	0
	Democratic Socialists '70	31,047	0.38	0	0
	Right-wing People's Party	21,987	0.27	0	0
	Roman Catholic Party of the Netherlands	12,689	0.15	0	0
	God with Us	3,157	0.04	0	0
	Dutch People's Union	1,632	0.02	0	0
	Progressive Party for the Preservation of Work, Environment and Society	250	0.00	0	New
	Small Party	127	0.00	0	0
Total		8,236,516	100.00	150	0
Valid votes		8,236,516	99.55
Invalid/blank votes		37,115	0.45
Total votes		8,273,631	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		10,216,627	80.98
Source: Kiesraad

By province

Results by province^[3]

Province	PvdA	CDA	VVD	D'66	PSP	SGP	CPN	PPR	RPF	CP	GPV	EVP	Others
Drenthe	41.1	23.7	21.8	3.9	1.3	0.2	1.3	1.3	1.7	0.2	1.6	1.0	2.0
Friesland	37.0	31.5	17.6	3.2	1.5	0.6	1.3	1.3	2.3	0.2	1.4	1.4	2.0
Gelderland	28.0	32.5	22.3	4.2	2.1	3.3	0.8	1.8	2.1	0.3	0.5	0.8	1.2
Groningen	42.2	20.9	16.9	3.4	2.3	0.2	4.2	1.7	1.8	0.2	3.8	1.3	1.3
Limburg	26.1	42.9	18.6	4.7	2.2	0.0	1.0	1.9	0.2	0.2	0.1	0.1	0.7
North Brabant	24.6	40.1	22.3	4.6	2.2	0.5	0.8	1.7	0.4	0.4	0.1	0.3	1.0
North Holland	31.6	21.7	27.2	4.5	3.7	0.4	4.3	2.0	0.9	1.4	0.3	0.6	1.3
Overijssel	28.3	36.3	18.1	3.9	1.3	2.6	1.0	1.4	2.8	0.3	2.1	0.7	0.9
South Holland	33.1	22.9	25.1	4.2	2.0	3.4	1.5	1.4	1.8	1.7	0.6	0.7	1.6
Southern IJsselmeer Polders	35.6	18.5	25.5	5.1	2.2	0.5	4.0	2.0	1.4	1.8	0.9	1.0	1.4
Utrecht	25.3	27.3	27.6	4.5	2.6	2.8	1.4	1.9	2.2	0.8	1.4	0.9	1.1
Zeeland	27.9	27.4	23.2	4.1	1.3	8.2	0.6	1.4	2.3	0.5	1.2	0.9	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, p1414
3. "Tweede Kamer 8 september 1982". Kiesraad (in Dutch). Retrieved 4 November 2021.