Election of the members of the House of Representatives
1972 Dutch general election
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29 November 1972
1977 →
All 150 seats in the House of Representatives 76 seats needed for a majority
Turnout
83.5% ( 4.4 pp)
Party
Leader
%
Seats
+/–
PvdA
Joop den Uyl
27.3%
43
+4
KVP
Frans Andriessen
17.7%
27
−8
VVD
Hans Wiegel
14.4%
22
+6
ARP
Barend Biesheuvel
8.8%
14
+1
PPR
Bas de Gaay Fortman
4.8%
7
+5
CHU
Arnold Tilanus
4.4%
7
−3
CPN
Marcus Bakker
4.4%
7
+1
D66
Hans van Mierlo
4.1%
6
−5
DS'70
Willem Drees Jr.
4.1%
6
−2
SGP
Hette Abma
2.2%
3
0
BP
Hendrik Koekoek
1.9%
3
+2
GPV
Piet Jongeling
1.8%
2
0
PSP
Bram van der Lek
1.5%
2
0
RKPN
Klaas Beuker
0.9%
1
New
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
Seats
Cabinet before
Cabinet after
Second Biesheuvel cabinet KVP–VVD–ARP–CHU
Den Uyl cabinet PvdA–KVP–ARP–D66–PPR
Early general elections were held in the Netherlands on 29 November 1972.[1] The Labour Party (PvdA) remained the largest party, winning 43 of the 150 seats in the House of Representatives.[2]
The elections led to a five-party coalition government consisting of the PvdA, the Catholic People's Party, the Anti-Revolutionary Party, the Political Party of Radicals and Democrats 1966 with the PvdA's Joop den Uyl as Prime Minister.
^Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p1396 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7
^Nohlen & Stöver, p1414
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