European Parliament election, 2004 (Netherlands)

Netherlands European Parliament election, 2004

10 June 2004
27 seats to the European Parliament
Turnout	39,26%

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 June 10, 2004. Fifteen parties competed in a D'Hondt type election for 27 seats. (down from 31).

Background

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:

1. ChristianUnion and SGP

Electoral alliances

Several parties formed an electoral alliance:

1. PvdA/European Social-Democrats and GreenLeft, with 1.476.750 votes
2. CDA/European People's Party and ChristianUnion/SGP, with 1.444.311 votes
3. 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.

Treaty of Nice

Further information: 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

Results

Further information: Netherlands (European Parliament constituency)

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.

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.

 Summary of the 10 June 2004 European Parliament election results in the Netherlands

Lists						Votes	%	Change	Seats	Change
Logo		National Party		EU Party	EP Group
	list	Christian Democratic Appeal	Christen-Democratisch Appèl	EPP	EPP-ED	1.164.431	24,43	-2,51	7	-2
	list	Labour Party	Partij van de Arbeid	PES	PES	1.124.549	23,60	+3,49	7	+1
	list	People's Party for Freedom and Democracy	Volkspartij voor Vrijheid en Democratie	ELDR	ALDE	629.198	13,20	-6,49	4	-2
	list	GreenLeft	GroenLinks	EGP	Greens-EFA	352.201	7,39	-4,46	2	-2
	list	Europe Transparent	Europa Transparant	none	Greens-EFA	349.156	7,33	+7,33	2	+2
	list	Socialist Party	Socialistische Partij	none	EUL/NGL	332.326	6,97	+1,93	2	+1
	list	ChristianUnion – Reformed Political Party	ChristenUnie–SGP	none	ID	279.880	5,87	-2,27	2	-1
	list	Democrats 66	Democraten 66	ELDR	ALDE	202.502	4,25	-1,55	1	-1
	list	Party for Animals	Partij voor de Dieren	none		153.432	3,22	+3,22	0	±0
	list	Pim Fortuyn List	Lijst Pim Fortuyn	none	UEN	121.509	2,55	+2,55	0	±0
	list	Party of the North	Partij voor het Noorden	none		18.234	0,38	+3,38	0	±0
	list	New Right	Nieuw Rechts	none		15.732	0,33	+0,33	0	±0
	list	Livable Europe	Leefbaar Europa	none		9.144	0,19	+0,19	0	±0
	list	Democratic Europe	Democratisch Europa	none		8.780	0,18	+0,18	0	±0
	list	Respect.now	Respect.nu	none		4.603	0,10	+0,10	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%
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European groups

The EPP-ED group lost 2 seats, making it just as big as the PES group. The ELDR becomes 3rd 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.

 Summary of the 10 June 2004 European Parliament elections in the Netherlands

European group			Seats 1999	Seats 2004	Change
	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
	The 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

Elected Members

Further information: MEPs for the Netherlands 2004-2009

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:
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.

Christian Democratic Appeal

1. Bert Doorn, with 978 votes
2. Camiel Eurlings, with 938.025 votes (top candidate)
3. Albert-Jan Maat, with 50.493 votes
4. Maria Martens, with 30.948 votes (till 10 April 2007)
5. Lambert van Nistelrooij, with 27.957 votes
6. Ria Oomen-Ruijten, with 29.719 votes
7. Corien Wortmann-Kool, with 2748 votes

Dutch Labour Party

1. Max van den Berg, with 879.972 votes (top candidate)
2. Thijs Berman, with 2536 votes
3. Emine Bozkurt, with 24.359 votes
4. Ieke van den Burg, with 2084 votes
5. Dorette Corbey, with 17.847 votes
6. Edith Mastenbroek, with 92.018 votes
7. Jan-Marinus Wiersma, with 27.067 votes

People's Party for Freedom and Democracy

1. Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert, with 44.064 votes
2. Jules Maaten, with 412.688 votes (top candidate)
3. Toine Manders, with 43.376 votes
4. Jan Mulder, with 32.819 votes

GreenLeft

1. Kathalijne Buitenweg, with 297.237 votes (top candidate)
2. Joost Lagendijk, with 3626 votes

Europe Transparent

1. Paul van Buitenen, with 338.477 votes (top candidate)
2. Els de Groen, with 4796 votes

Socialist Party

1. Kartika Liotard, with 32.187 votes
2. Erik Meijer, with 230.531 votes (top candidate)

ChristianUnion – Reformed Political Party

1. Johannes Blokland (ChristianUnion), with 197.031 votes (top candidate)
2. Bastiaan Belder (Reformed Political Party), with 44.473 votes

Democrats 66

1. Sophie in 't Veld, with 161.104 votes (top candidate)

Remainder seats

Five seats are distributed as remainder seats. These go to the party's in this order:

1. Europe Transparent
2. VVD/European Liberal-Democrats and Democrats 66 electoral alliance, given to People's Party for Freedom and Democracy
3. Socialist Party
4. PvdA/European Social-Democrats and GreenLeft electoral alliance, given to the Dutch Labour Party
5. CDA/European People's Party and ChristianUnion/SGP electoral alliance, given to the ChristianUnion-SGP

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.

Further information: MEPs for the Netherlands 2004–2009

Name	National party	EP Group	Period	Votes
Bastiaan "Bas" Belder	ChristianUnion–Reformed Political Party	IND&DEM	20 July 1999	44,473
Max van den Berg	Labour Party	PES	20 July 1999 – 1 September 2007	879,972
Thijs Berman	Labour Party	PES	20 July 2004	2,536
Johannes Blokland	ChristianUnion–Reformed Political Party	IND&DEM	19 July 1994 – 14 July 2009	197,031
Emine Bozkurt	Labour Party	PES	20 July 2004	24,359
Paul van Buitenen	Europe Transparent	G–EFA	20 July 2004 – 14 July 2009	338,477
Kathalijne Buitenweg	GreenLeft	G–EFA	20 July 1999 – 14 July 2009	297,237
Ieke van den Burg	Labour Party	PES	20 July 1999 – 14 July 2009	2,084
Jan Cremers	Labour Party	PES	8 May 2008 – 14 July 2009
Dorette Corbey	Labour Party	PES	20 July 1999 – 14 July 2009	17,847
Bert Doorn	Christian Democratic Appeal	EPP–ED	20 July 1999 – 14 July 2009	978
Camiel Eurlings	Christian Democratic Appeal	EPP–ED	20 July 2004 – 22 February 2007	938,025
Els de Groen-Kouwenhoven	Europe Transparent	G–EFA	20 July 2004 – 14 July 2009	4,796
Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert	People's Party for Freedom and Democracy	ALDE	20 July 2004	44,064
nl	Labour Party	PES	4 September 2007 – 14 July 2009
Joost Lagendijk	GreenLeft	G–EFA	1 September 1998 – 14 July 2009	3,626
Esther de Lange	Christian Democratic Appeal	EPP–ED	12 April 2007
Kartika Liotard	Socialist Party	EUL–NGL	20 July 2004	32,187
Albert Jan Maat	Christian Democratic Appeal	EPP–ED	20 July 1999 – 10 April 2007	50,493
Jules Maaten	People's Party for Freedom and Democracy	ALDE	20 July 1999 – 14 July 2009	412,688
Toine Manders	People's Party for Freedom and Democracy	ALDE	20 July 1999	43,376
Maria Martens	Christian Democratic Appeal	EPP–ED	20 July 1999 – 14 July 2009	30.948
Edith Mastenbroek	Labour Party	PES	20 July 2004 – 20 April 2008	92,018
Erik Meijer	Socialist Party	EUL–NGL	20 July 1999 – 14 July 2009	230,531
Jan Mulder	People's Party for Freedom and Democracy	ALDE	19 July 1994 – 14 July 2009	32,819
Lambert van Nistelrooij	Christian Democratic Appeal	EPP–ED	20 July 2004	27,957
Ria Oomen-Ruijten	Christian Democratic Appeal	EPP–ED	19 July 1994	29,719
Joop Post	Christian Democratic Appeal	EPP–ED	1 March 2007 – 16 October 2007
Sophie in 't Veld	Democrats 66	ALDE	20 July 2004	161,104
Cornelis Visser	Christian Democratic Appeal	EPP–ED	17 October 2007 – 14 July 2009
Jan-Marinus Wiersma	Labour Party	PES	19 July 1994 – 14 July 2009	27,067
Corien Wortmann-Kool	Christian Democratic Appeal	EPP–ED	20 July 2004	2,748
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