European Parliament election, 2004 (Netherlands)
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| Netherlands European Parliament election, 2004 | ||||
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| 27 seats to the European Parliament | ||||
| 10 June 2004 | ||||
| Turnout | 39,26% | |||
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The European Parliament election of 2004 in the Netherlands was the election of MEP representing Netherlands constituency for the 2004-2009 term of the European Parliament. It was part of the wider 2004 European election. It was held on on June 10, 2004. Fifteen parties competed in a D'Hondt type election for 27 seats. (down from 31).
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[edit] Background
[edit] Combined lists
Several parties combined in one list to take part in this European Election and increase their chance on a seat in the European Parliament. These combined lists are:
- ChristianUnion and SGP
[edit] Electoral alliances
Several parties formed an electoral alliance: [1]
- PvdA/European Social-Democrats and GreenLeft, with 1.476.750 votes
- CDA/European People's Party and ChristianUnion/SGP, with 1.444.311 votes
- VVD/European Liberal-Democrats and Democrats 66, with 831.700 votes
The alliance between Christian Democratic Appeal and ChristianUnion/SGP cost the Christian Democratic Appeal a seat, which goes to ChristianUnion/SGP. Other alliances had no effect on the result.
[edit] Treaty of Nice
The exact number of seats allocated to each country is determined by the treaties, currently the Treaty of Nice, and is adjusted by the accession treaty of each new member. Hence no change to the seats occurs without ratification by all states. According to the treaties, the maximum number of members in the Parliament is 732. This why the seats for the Netherlands was reduced from 31 to 27
[edit] Results
According to the European Commission, the publication of national results prior to Sunday evening is considered illegal. However, all the municipalities in the Netherlands published the results on Thursday, giving the media the opportunity to give an almost complete national result, only missing votes cast abroad. The complete and official result were publicized according to the rules. [2]
[edit] Dutch political parties
The ruling centre-right parties, the Christian Democratic Appeal and the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy polled poorly, while the opposition Labour Party and Socialist Party gained ground. The anti-fraud party Europe Transparent of whistle blower Paul van Buitenen unexpectedly won two seats.
| Lists | Votes | % | Change | Seats | Change | ||||||
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| Logo | National Party | EU Party | EP Group | ||||||||
| Christian Democratic Appeal | Christen-Democratisch Appèl | EPP | EPP-ED | 1.164.431 | 24,43 | -2,51 | 7 | -2 | |||
| Labour Party | Partij van de Arbeid | PES | 1.124.549 | 23,6 | +3,49 | 7 | +1 | ||||
| People's Party for Freedom and Democracy | Volkspartij voor Vrijheid en Democratie | ELDR | ALDE | 629.198 | 13,2 | -6,49 | 4 | -2 | |||
| GreenLeft | GroenLinks | EGP | Greens-EFA | 352.201 | 7,39 | -4,46 | 2 | -2 | |||
| Europe Transparent | Europa Transparant | none | Greens-EFA | 349.156 | 7,33 | +7,33 | 2 | +2 | |||
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Socialist Party | Socialistische Partij | none | EUL/NGL | 332.326 | 6,97 | +1,93 | 2 | +1 | ||
| ChristianUnion – Reformed Political Party | ChristenUnie–SGP | none | ID | 279.880 | 5,87 | -2,27 | 2 | -1 | |||
| Democrats 66 | Democraten 66 | ELDR | ALDE | 202.502 | 4,25 | -1,55 | 1 | -1 | |||
| Party for the Animals | Partij voor de Dieren | none | 153.432 | 3,22 | +3,22 | 0 | ±0 | ||||
| List Pim Fortuyn | Lijst Pim Fortuyn | none | EUN | 121.509 | 2,55 | +2,55 | 0 | ±0 | |||
| Party of the North | Partij voor het Noorden | none | 18.234 | 0,38 | +3,38 | 0 | ±0 | ||||
| New Right | Nieuw Rechts | none | 15.732 | 0,33 | +0,33 | 0 | ±0 | ||||
| Livable Europe | Leefbaar Europa | none | 9.144 | 0,19 | +0,19 | 0 | ±0 | ||||
| Democratic Europe | Democratisch Europa | none | 8.780 | 0,18 | +0,18 | 0 | ±0 | ||||
| Respect.now | Respect.nu | none | 4.603 | 0,1 | +0,1 | 0 | ±0 | ||||
| Total valid votes | 4.765.677 | 100 | 27 | -4 | |||||||
| Invalid votes | 11.444 | ||||||||||
| Total votes | 4.777.121 | ||||||||||
| Electorate | 12.168.878 | ||||||||||
| Turnout | 39,26% | ||||||||||
| Source: [3] | |||||||||||
[edit] European groups
The EPP-ED group lost 2 seats, making it just ass big as the PES group. The ELDE becomes 3th group after PES. After the elections ELDR and European Democratic Party (EDP) formed a new European Group named ALDE in the European parliament. The EDP did not have member party's in the Netherlands. Also the Europe of Democracies and Diversities (EDD) group reforms itself with party's from Eastern-Europe. They rename their group to Independence/Democracy (ID). The ChristianUnion – Reformed Political Party is part of this new group.
| European group | Seats 1999 | Seats 2004 | Change | |
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| European People's Party–European Democrats | EPP-ED | 9 | 7 | -2 |
| Party of European Socialists | PES | 6 | 7 | +1 |
| Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe | ALDE | 8 | 5 | -3 |
| European Greens–European Free Alliance | Greens-EFA | 4 | 4 | ±0 |
| European United Left–Nordic Green Left | EUL-NGL | 1 | 2 | +1 |
| Independence/Democracy | ID | 3 | 2 | -1 |
| Non-Inscrits | 0 | 0 | ±0 | |
| 31 | 27 | -4 | ||
[edit] Elected Members
Below are all the elected members of European parliament. People with enough preference votes are in bold. The following MEP were officially announced by the Central Electoral Commission on 15 June 2004: [1]
21 members were elected by preference vote. Emine Bozkurt for the Dutch Labour Party was purely elected on his preference votes and would otherwise not made it into the European Parliament.
- Bert Doorn, with 978 votes
- Camiel Eurlings, with 938.025 votes (top candidate)
- Albert-Jan Maat, with 50.493 votes
- Maria Martens, with 30.948 votes (till 10 April 2007)
- Lambert van Nistelrooij, with 27.957 votes
- Ria Oomen-Ruijten, with 29.719 votes
- Corien Wortmann-Kool, with 2748 votes
- Max van den Berg, with 879.972 votes (top candidate)
- Thijs Berman, with 2536 votes
- Emine Bozkurt, with 24.359 votes
- Ieke van den Burg, with 2084 votes
- Dorette Corbey, with 17.847 votes
- Edith Mastenbroek, with 92.018 votes
- Jan-Marinus Wiersma, with 27.067 votes
People's Party for Freedom and Democracy
- Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert, with 44.064 votes
- Jules Maaten, with 412.688 votes (top candidate)
- Toine Manders, with 43.376 votes
- Jan Mulder, with 32.819 votes
- Kathalijne Buitenweg, with 297.237 votes (top candidate)
- Joost Lagendijk, with 3626 votes
- Paul van Buitenen, with 338.477 votes (top candidate)
- Els de Groen, with 4796 votes
- Kartika Liotard, with 32.187 votes
- Erik Meijer, with 230.531 votes (top candidate)
ChristianUnion – Reformed Political Party
- Johannes Blokland (ChristianUnion), with 197.031 votes (top candidate)
- Bastiaan Belder (Reformed Political Party), with 44.473 votes
- Sophie in 't Veld, with 161.104 votes (top candidate)
[edit] Remainder seats
Five seats are distributed as remainder seats. These go to the party's in this order: [1]
- Europe Transparent
- VVD/European Liberal-Democrats and Democrats 66 electoral alliance, given to People's Party for Freedom and Democracy
- Socialist Party
- PvdA/European Social-Democrats and GreenLeft electoral alliance, given to the Dutch Labour Party
- CDA/European People's Party and ChristianUnion/SGP electoral alliance, given to the ChristianUnion-SGP
[edit] MEPs period 2004-2009
Below is a list of members of the European Parliament for the period 2009-2014 as a result of this election.
[edit] References
- ^ a b c Minutes Dutch EP election 2004 in .pfd and Dutch
- ^ Electoral council is allowed to renounce resultsArticle Volkskrant
- ^ Minutes Dutch EP election 2004 in .pdf and Dutch
- ^ Dutch MEPs Parlementair Documentatie Centrum
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