The European Parliament election of 1979 in the Netherlands was the election of MEP representing Netherlands constituency

Netherlands (European Parliament constituency)

In European elections, the Netherlands is a constituency of the European Parliament, currently represented by twenty-five MEPs. It covers the member state of the Netherlands...

 for the 1979–1984 term of the European Parliament

European Parliament

The European Parliament is the directly elected parliamentary institution of the European Union . Together with the Council of the European Union and the Commission, it exercises the legislative function of the EU and it has been described as one of the most powerful legislatures in the world...

. It was part of the wider 1979 European election

European Parliament election, 1979

The 1979 European elections were parliamentary elections held across all 9 European Community member states. They were the first European elections to be held, allowing citizens to elect 410 MEPs to the European Parliament, and also the first international election in history.Seats in the...

. It was held on on June 7, 1979.
Ten parties competed in a D'Hondt

D'Hondt method

The d'Hondt method is a highest averages method for allocating seats in party-list proportional representation. The method described is named after Belgian mathematician Victor D'Hondt who described it in 1878...

 type election for 25 seats.

Electoral alliances

Two parties formed an electoral alliance:

1. PvdA/European Social-Democrats and PPR

Voting right

These people got right to vote in this first election for the European Parliament in 1979 in the Netherlands:

• Everyone who was allowed to vote in the Dutch parliament elections;
• Dutch who are resident in other Member States and did not already have voting rights for the Dutch Parliament elections;
• Subjects of one of the other Member States which have residence in the Netherlands. Provided that the state of which they are from granted the same.

Dutch political parties

Four parties were able to win seats: the conservative liberal VVD, the progressive liberal D66, the Christian-democratic CDA

Christian Democratic Appeal

The Christian Democratic Appeal is a centre-right Dutch Christian democratic political party. It suffered severe losses in the 2010 elections and fell from the first to the fourth place...

 and the social-democratic Labour Party. Five other nationally represented parties compete but are unable to win seats. 58.1% of the Dutch population turned out

Voter turnout

Voter turnout is the percentage of eligible voters who cast a ballot in an election . After increasing for many decades, there has been a trend of decreasing voter turnout in most established democracies since the 1960s...

 on election day.

Elected Members

Christian Democratic Appeal

Christian Democratic Appeal

The Christian Democratic Appeal is a centre-right Dutch Christian democratic political party. It suffered severe losses in the 2010 elections and fell from the first to the fourth place...

1. Bouke Beumer
2. Elise Boot
   Elise Boot
   Elisabeth Cornelia Alphonsa Maria Boot is a Dutch jurist and former politician.Boot studied theology at the Catholic University of Nijmegen, but after a few years she switched to studying law at the National University of Utrecht...
   
   
3. Frans van der Gun
4. Jim Janssen van Raaij
5. Sjouke Jonker
   Sjouke Jonker
   Sjouke Jonker was a Dutch politician.-References:...
   
   
6. Hanja Maij-Weggen
   Hanja Maij-Weggen
   Johanna Rika Hermanna Maij-Weggen is a former Dutch politician. From 1989 until 1994 she was Minister of Transport, Public Works and Water Management in the third cabinet of prime minister Ruud Lubbers, and from 2003 until 2009 the Queen's Commissioner of the province of North Brabant.-Life and...
   
   
7. Harrij Notenboom
8. Jean Penders
9. Teun Tolman
   Teun Tolman
   Teun Tolman was a Dutch politician.-References:...
   
   
10. Wim Vergeer

Dutch Labour Party

1. Wim Albers
2. Bob Cohen
   Bob Cohen
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3. Piet Dankert
4. Annie Krouwel-Vlam
5. Johan van Minnen
6. Hemmo Muntingh
7. Anne Vondeling
   Anne Vondeling
   Anne Vondeling was a member and former chairman of the Dutch Labour Party.He was minister in fourth Drees cabinet and vice prime minister in the Cals cabinet. Later he became President of Dutch House of Representatives, in which capacity he put much emphasis on the usage of correct and clear...
   
   
8. Eisso Woltjer
9. Ien van den Heuvel-de Blank

People's Party for Freedom and Democracy

People's Party for Freedom and Democracy

The People's Party for Freedom and Democracy is a conservative-liberal political party located in the Netherlands. The VVD supports private enterprise in the Netherlands and is often perceived as an economic liberal party in contrast to the social-liberal Democrats 66 alongside which it sits in...

1. Cees Berkhouwer (top candidate
   Lijsttrekker
   Lijsttrekker is a Dutch term for the top candidate of a party on a party list. He or she is almost always the party's political leader. After an election, this person usually leads the party's faction in the States-General, or serves in a senior position in the Cabinet if his party is part of...
   
   )
2. Aart Geurtsen
3. Hendrik Jan Louwes
4. Hans Nord

Democrats 66

Democrats 66

Democrats 66 is a progressive and social-liberal political party in the Netherlands. D66 was formed in 1966 by a group of politically unaligned, young intellectuals, led by journalist Hans van Mierlo. The party's main objective was to democratise the political system; it proposed to create an...

1. Suzanne Dekker
2. Aar de Goede

MEPs period 1979-1984

Below is a complete list of members of the European Parliament for the period 1979–1984 as a result of this election.