Dutch general election, 1956

Dutch general election, 1956
Netherlands
13 June 1956

All 150 seats to the House of Representatives
76 seats were needed for a majority
Turnout 95.5%
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Willem Drees Carl Romme Jelle Zijlstra
Party PvdA KVP ARP
Leader since 1948 1946 1956
Last election 30 seats, 29.0% 30 seats, 28.7% 12 seats, 11.3%
Seats won 50 49 15
Seat change Increase20 Increase19 Increase3
Popular vote 1,872,209 1,815,310 567,535
Percentage 32.7% 31.7% 9.9%

  Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party
 
Leader Pieter Oud Hendrik Tilanus Paul de Groot
Party VVD CHU CPN
Leader since 1948 1939 1946
Last election 9 seats, 8.8% 9 seats, 8.9% 6 seats, 6.2%
Seats won 13 13 7
Seat change Increase4 Increase4 Increase1
Popular vote 502,530 482,918 272,054
Percentage 8.8% 8.4% 4.7%

  Seventh party
 
Leader Pieter Zandt
Party SGP
Leader since 1945
Last election 2 seats, 2.4%
Seats won 3
Seat change Increase1
Popular vote 129,517
Percentage 2.3%

Seats

Prime Minister before election

Willem Drees
PvdA

Prime Minister

Willem Drees
PvdA

General elections were held in the Netherlands on 13 June 1956.[1] For the first time, the Labour Party emerged as the largest party, winning 50 of the 150 seats in the House of Representatives.[2]

Electoral system

Prior to the elections the number of seats in the House of Representatives was raised from 100 to 150.[3] This meant that the electoral threshold was reduced from 1% to 0.67%.[3]

Results

Party Votes % Seats +/–
Labour Party1,872,20932.750+20
Catholic People's Party1,815,31031.749+19
Anti Revolutionary Party567,5359.915+3
People's Party for Freedom and Democracy502,5308.813+4
Christian Historical Union482,9188.413+4
Communist Party of the Netherlands272,0544.77+1
Reformed Political Party129,5172.33+1
Reformed Political League85,6691.600
National Union0New
National Opposition Union0New
Invalid/blank votes121,910
Total5,849,652100150+50
Registered voters/turnout6,152,21095.5
Source: Nohlen & Stöver
Popular Vote
PvdA
 
32.69%
KVP
 
31.69%
ARP
 
9.91%
VVD
 
8.77%
CHU
 
8.43%
CPN
 
4.75%
SGP
 
2.26%
GPV
 
0.65%
Other
 
0.85%

References

  1. Nohlen, D & Stöver, P (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p1396 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7
  2. Nohlen & Stöver, p1413
  3. 1 2 Nohlen & Stöver, p1385
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