The 1979 European Parliament election for the election of the delegation from the Netherlands was held on 7 June 1979. This is the 1st time the elections have been held for the European elections in the Netherlands.

Background The official order and names of candidate lists: + List English translation List name (Dutch) 1 list Labour Party/European Socialists Partij van de Arbeid/Europese Socialisten 2 list CDA European People's Party CDA Europese Volkspartij 3 list VVD - European Liberal-Democrats VVD - Europese Liberaal-Democraten 4 list D'66 5 list S.G.P. 6 list C.P.N. 7 list P.P.R. 8 list G.P.V. 9 list P.S.P. 10 list List Leschot Lijst Leschot

Labour Party/European Socialists

+ Candidate list for the Labour Party Number Candidate Votes Result 1 1,559,941 Elected 2 65,447 Elected 3 14,164 Elected 4 26,484 Elected 5 5,194 Elected 6 7,985 Elected 7 1,684 Elected 8 1,816 Elected 9 3,228 Elected 10 2,000 Replacement 11 968 12 1,599 13 2,975 14 2,525 15 1,720 16 987 17 938 18 597 19 6,558 20 2,807 21 751 22 794 23 648 24 886 25 1,479 26 1,294 27 336 28 666 29 334 30 809 31 523 32 478 33 1,265 34 2,360 Total 1,722,240

CDA European People's Party

+ Candidate list for the Christian Democratic Appeal Number Candidate Votes Result 1 1,839,966 Elected 2 24,501 Elected 3 14,587 Elected 4 9,745 Elected 5 53,792 Elected 6 2,688 Elected 7 2,319 Elected 8 1,704 Elected 9 4,685 Elected 10 3,663 Elected 11 1,623 12 1,608 13 945 14 2,768 Replacement 15 5,317 16 10,231 17 2,268 18 1,349 19 4,495 20 1,489 21 2,640 22 640 23 578 24 574 25 1,386 26 841 27 1,418 28 6,216 29 3,781 30 311 31 328 32 852 33 262 34 1,472 35 248 36 687 37 298 38 1,709 39 518 40 3,241 Total 2,017,743

VVD - European Liberal-Democrats

+ Candidate list for the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy Number Candidate Votes Result 1 822,713 Elected 2 6,109 Elected 3 6,770 Elected 4 5,570 Elected 5 13,578 6 1,820 7 2,691 8 977 9 3,193 10 987 11 2,039 12 1,475 13 1,057 14 1,665 15 662 16 478 17 860 18 911 19 962 20 638 21 643 22 1,095 23 330 24 1,199 25 171 26 4,289 27 725 28 1,060 29 612 30 426 31 849 32 404 33 373 34 780 35 599 36 428 37 4,942 38 1,456 39 12,290 40 6,961 Total 914,787

D'66

+ Candidate list for the Democrats 66 Number Candidate Votes Result 1 392,304 Elected 2 91,949 Elected 3 3,180 4 2,186 Replacement 5 1,490 6 2,042 7 1,059 8 1,952 9 463 10 1,203 11 941 12 2,618 13 1,504 14 602 15 544 16 948 17 2,165 18 276 19 1,596 20 1,086 21 473 22 1,386 Total 511,967

S.G.P.

+ Candidate list for the Reformed Political Party Number Candidate Votes Result 1 2 3 4 5 6 Total 126,412

C.P.N.

+ Candidate list for the Communist Party of the Netherlands Number Candidate Votes Result 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 Total 97,343

P.P.R.

+ Candidate list for the Political Party of Radicals Number Candidate Votes Result 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Total 92,055

G.P.V.

+ Candidate list for the Reformed Political League Number Candidate Votes Result 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Total 62,610

P.S.P.

+ Candidate list for the Pacifist Socialist Party Number Candidate Votes Result 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 Total 97,243

List Leschot

+ Candidate list for List Leschot Number Candidate Votes Result 1 24,903 Total 24,903

Sources Data of the 1979 European Election by the Electoral Committee

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