1986 Dutch General Election
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General elections were held in the
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on 21 May 1986.
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& Philip Stöver (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p1396
The
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(CDA) emerged as the largest party, winning 54 of the 150 seats in the
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. The incumbent CDA-
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coalition maintained exactly the same number of seats as they had achieved at the last general election and continued working together in
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with the CDA's
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as Prime Minister.


Electoral system

The Dutch parliament was elected using party-list
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with a single nationwide constituency.Derbyshire and Derbyshire, Political Systems of the World, p. 505


Results


By province


References


Further reading

*Van Der Eijk, Cees; Irwin, Galen; Niemöller, Kees (1986). " The Dutch parliamentary election of May 1986". ''Electoral Studies''. 5 (3): 289–296. *Gladdish, Ken. "The Centre Holds: the 1986 Netherlands Election," ''West European Politics'' (1987). 10#1 pp. 115–119 {{Dutch elections General elections in the Netherlands
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Netherlands , Terminology of the Low Countries, informally Holland, is a country in Northwestern Europe, with Caribbean Netherlands, overseas territories in the Caribbean. It is the largest of the four constituent countries of the Kingdom of the Nether ...