Netherlands · Completed

Netherlands — Parliamentary election — 1959-03-12

Name: Netherlands — Parliamentary election — 1959-03-12
Start: 1959-03-12
Location: Netherlands

Mar 12, 1959

Elections

Partial

Jurisdiction: Netherlands
Next national election: Mar 12, 1959
Role: Parliamentary election · Legislative
Selection method: Other method
Status: Completed
Round: 1

Dataset hash: 7b22b75389bf1b443f284a24ffef158e04461304d445876f61ce5be9bfcbcb7e

Contest rounds

Round 1 · Single round

Dataset hash: 7b22b75389bf1b443f284a24ffef158e04461304d445876f61ce5be9bfcbcb7e

CompletedMar 12, 1959

Published contest rules

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  "early": true,
  "electorate": 6427864,
  "source": "ParlGov",
  "sourceElectionId": 667,
  "sourceElectionType": "parliament",
  "totalSeats": 150,
  "validVotes": 5999531,
  "votesCast": 6143409
}

Candidates

Anti-Revolutionary Party

Party

Affiliated party: Anti-Revolutionary Party

Christian Historical Union

Party

Affiliated party: Christian Historical Union

Communist Party of the Netherlands

Party

Affiliated party: Communist Party of the Netherlands

Gereformeerd Politiek Verbond

Party

Affiliated party: Gereformeerd Politiek Verbond

Katholieke Volkspartij

Party

Affiliated party: Katholieke Volkspartij

Pacifist Socialist Party

Party

Affiliated party: Pacifist Socialist Party

Partij van de Arbeid

Party

Affiliated party: Partij van de Arbeid

Staatkundig Gereformeerde Partij

Party

Affiliated party: Staatkundig Gereformeerde Partij

People's Party for Freedom and Democracy

Party

Affiliated party: People's Party for Freedom and Democracy

Candidate–opponent strategy evidence

A directional comparison and factual public-message frame for each sourced pair in the same contest.

Preliminary evidence scenario, not a prediction or guarantee of an electoral result. It uses public sources, makes no causal claim and uses no demographic microtargeting. Methodology

There is not enough compatible, sourced evidence to publish a pairwise analysis for this contest yet.

Election results

Netherlands — Parliamentary election — 1959-03-12 · Gereformeerd Politiek Verbond

Round 1 · Aug 15, 2024 · Preliminary

Votes: 39,972
Seats: 0
Original value: 0.67
Published precision: 2

Dataset hash: 7b22b75389bf1b443f284a24ffef158e04461304d445876f61ce5be9bfcbcb7e

Netherlands — Parliamentary election — 1959-03-12 · Communistische Partij van Nederland

Round 1 · Aug 15, 2024 · Preliminary

Votes: 144,542
Seats: 3
Original value: 2.41
Published precision: 2

Dataset hash: 7b22b75389bf1b443f284a24ffef158e04461304d445876f61ce5be9bfcbcb7e

Netherlands — Parliamentary election — 1959-03-12 · Staatkundig Gereformeerde Partij

Round 1 · Aug 15, 2024 · Preliminary

Votes: 129,678
Seats: 3
Original value: 2.16
Published precision: 2

Dataset hash: 7b22b75389bf1b443f284a24ffef158e04461304d445876f61ce5be9bfcbcb7e

Netherlands — Parliamentary election — 1959-03-12 · Christelijk-Historische Unie

Round 1 · Aug 15, 2024 · Preliminary

Votes: 486,429
Seats: 12
Original value: 8.11
Published precision: 2

Dataset hash: 7b22b75389bf1b443f284a24ffef158e04461304d445876f61ce5be9bfcbcb7e

Netherlands — Parliamentary election — 1959-03-12 · Volkspartij voor Vrijheid & Democratie

Round 1 · Aug 15, 2024 · Preliminary

Votes: 732,658
Seats: 19
Original value: 12.21
Published precision: 2

Dataset hash: 7b22b75389bf1b443f284a24ffef158e04461304d445876f61ce5be9bfcbcb7e

Netherlands — Parliamentary election — 1959-03-12 · Katholieke Volkspartij

Round 1 · Aug 15, 2024 · Preliminary

Votes: 1,895,914
Seats: 49
Original value: 31.60
Published precision: 2

Dataset hash: 7b22b75389bf1b443f284a24ffef158e04461304d445876f61ce5be9bfcbcb7e

Netherlands — Parliamentary election — 1959-03-12 · Anti-Revolutionaire Partij

Round 1 · Aug 15, 2024 · Preliminary

Votes: 563,091
Seats: 14
Original value: 9.39
Published precision: 2

Dataset hash: 7b22b75389bf1b443f284a24ffef158e04461304d445876f61ce5be9bfcbcb7e

Netherlands — Parliamentary election — 1959-03-12 · Partij van de Arbeid

Round 1 · Aug 15, 2024 · Preliminary

Votes: 1,821,285
Seats: 48
Original value: 30.36
Published precision: 2

Dataset hash: 7b22b75389bf1b443f284a24ffef158e04461304d445876f61ce5be9bfcbcb7e

Netherlands — Parliamentary election — 1959-03-12 · Pacifistisch-Socialistische Partij

Round 1 · Aug 15, 2024 · Preliminary

Votes: 110,499
Seats: 2
Original value: 1.84
Published precision: 2

Dataset hash: 7b22b75389bf1b443f284a24ffef158e04461304d445876f61ce5be9bfcbcb7e

Signal

Partial

Coverage is partial and no record is currently available for this section.

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Polls

Partial

Coverage is partial and no record is currently available for this section.

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Forecasts

Partial

Coverage is partial and no record is currently available for this section.

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Top issues

Partial

Coverage is partial and no record is currently available for this section.

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Prediction components

Partial

Coverage is partial and no record is currently available for this section.

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Media profile

Approval · Favorability · Negativity

Partial

Coverage is partial and no record is currently available for this section.

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Media profile

Partial

Coverage is partial and no record is currently available for this section.

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Strengths · Weaknesses · Attacks · Controversies

Partial

Coverage is partial and no record is currently available for this section.

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Campaign signals

Partial

Coverage is partial and no record is currently available for this section.

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Sources

1WikidataCC0-1.0 · Aug 9, 2026
2Wikimedia CommonsCC BY-SA 4.0 · Aug 9, 2026
3Unicode Common Locale Data RepositoryUnicode-3.0 · Aug 9, 2026