1959 Dutch general election

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12 March 1959

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All 150 seats in the House of Representatives
76 seats needed for a majority

Turnout

95.6% (

0.1 pp)

Party	Leader	%	Seats	+/–
KVP	Carl Romme	31.6%	49	0
PvdA	Jaap Burger	30.4%	48	−2
VVD	Pieter Oud	12.2%	19	+6
ARP	Jelle Zijlstra	9.4%	14	−1
CHU	Henk Beernink	8.1%	12	−1
CPN	Paul de Groot	2.4%	3	−4
SGP	Pieter Zandt	2.2%	3	0
PSP	Henk Lankhorst, Nico van der Veen	1.8%	2	New

This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.

Seats

Cabinet before	Cabinet after
Second Beel cabinet KVP–ARP–CHU	De Quay cabinet KVP–VVD–ARP–CHU

General elections were held in the Netherlands on 12 March 1959.^[1] The Catholic People's Party emerged as the largest party, winning 49 of the 150 seats in the House of Representatives.^[2]

Results



Party		Votes	%	Seats	+/–
	Catholic People's Party	1,895,914	31.60	49	0
	Labour Party	1,821,285	30.36	48	–2
	People's Party for Freedom and Democracy	732,758	12.21	19	+6
	Anti-Revolutionary Party	563,091	9.39	14	–1
	Christian Historical Union	486,429	8.11	12	–1
	Communist Party of the Netherlands	144,542	2.41	3	–4
	Reformed Political Party	129,678	2.16	3	0
	Pacifist Socialist Party	110,499	1.84	2	New
	Reformed Political League	39,972	0.67	0	0
	Farmers' Party	37,774	0.63	0	New
	Brug Group	34,723	0.58	0	New
	Party for Agriculture and the Middle Class	1,649	0.03	0	New
	Positive Christian National Union	1,317	0.02	0	New
Total		5,999,631	100.00	150	0

Valid votes		5,999,631	97.66
Invalid/blank votes		143,879	2.34
Total votes		6,143,510	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		6,425,458	95.61
Source: Kiesraad

Results by province^[3]
Province	KVP	PvdA	VVD	ARP	CHU	CPN	SGP	PSP	Others
Province									Others
Drenthe	6.9	42.5	18.4	15.3	11.5	1.9	0.2	0.6	2.6
Friesland	6.9	38.7	10.4	21.9	16.2	2.0	0.7	1.7	1.5
Gelderland	31.9	29.1	11.0	9.1	12.2	0.6	3.6	0.7	1.8
Groningen	5.8	40.7	16.0	16.8	9.3	4.8	0.2	1.7	4.7
Limburg	79.5	15.0	2.5	1.0	0.7	0.7	0.1	0.2	0.3
North Brabant	74.0	15.2	4.2	2.6	2.3	0.4	0.6	0.3	0.4
North Holland	23.4	33.1	16.8	7.5	4.9	6.1	0.6	4.7	2.9
Overijssel	28.1	30.0	9.6	10.1	12.9	2.4	2.7	0.9	3.1
South Holland	18.5	36.4	15.4	11.3	9.0	2.1	3.8	2.0	1.5
Southern IJsselmeer Polders	24.4	24.7	9.7	20.0	15.4	0.4	2.1	0.8	2.5
Utrecht	25.5	29.7	13.8	12.3	10.6	0.9	3.3	1.5	2.4
Zeeland	21.1	29.3	11.1	12.5	14.9	0.4	8.8	0.4	1.5

^ Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p1396 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7
^ Nohlen & Stöver, p1413
^ "Tweede Kamer 12 maart 1959". Kiesraad (in Dutch). Retrieved 28 November 2023.

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