Best losers 1937-2010

Parties closest to a seat in the Second Chamber

Year Party Short % of quota
1959 GPV 25 99,9
1967 Emergency Council 436 99,1
1967 Chr.-Dem. Union 522 98,9
1959 BP/PLM 574 98,6
1977 RPF 2231 96,0
2006 OneNL 2763 95,8
1986 CPN1 3301 94,6
1967 P.for Unmarried 2496 94,6
1998 CD 5026 91,2
1963 Partij Econ. Appeal 4170 90,0
1959 Bridging Group 5274 86,8
2010 Trots op Nederland 9837 84,3
1981 DS'70 9372 83,8
1972 Dem. Middle Party. 8032 83,7
1948 Middle Class Party 8381 83,0
1982 SP 9952 81,9
1998 AOV/U55+ 10926 81,0
1937 Rev.Soc.Lab.Party 7735 80,9
1998 Netherlands Mobile 12164 78,8
1981 EVP 12751 78,0
2003 Party for Animals 16610 74,2
1937 Cath.Dem.Party 12916 68,2
1946 Protestant Union 15588 67,3
1972 NMP 16324 66,9
1952 GPV 17861 66,5
1989 SP 20419 65,6
19562 GPV 20071 65,0


Index

For a seat in the Second Chamber, parties have to pass the quota of (# of valid votes)/(# of seats). This means effectively an electoral barrier of 1% in the period 1937-1956, and 0,667 % afterwards. The 25 best attempts are listed here, the number of votes these parties were short of a seat, and how many percent this was of the quota/electoral barrier.

When this shortage mentioned here would have been compensated by other voters, this would have been enough for a seat. However, to pass the quota by receiving votes from non-voters, the required number of votes would have been higher, since the quota increases with the number of votes. The extra votes necessary varies between 1 vote for the GPV in 1959 and 204 extra for the GPV in 1959 (Parliament of 100 seats).

1 Split off party VCN received 4618 votes.
2 In 1956 the number of seats was increased from 100 to 150 a few months after the elections. In this overview a seat number of 100 was assumed. In the situation of 150 seats, the GPV was 979 votes short, 97,4% of the quota.