Netherlands · Completed

Netherlands — Parliamentary election — 1998-05-06

Name: Netherlands — Parliamentary election — 1998-05-06
Start: 1998-05-06
Location: Netherlands

May 6, 1998

Elections

Stale

Jurisdiction: Netherlands
Next national election: May 6, 1998
Role: Parliamentary election · Legislative
Selection method: Other method
Status: Completed
Round: 1

Dataset hash: 7b22b75389bf1b443f284a24ffef158e04461304d445876f61ce5be9bfcbcb7e

Contest rounds

Round 1 · Single round

Dataset hash: 7b22b75389bf1b443f284a24ffef158e04461304d445876f61ce5be9bfcbcb7e

CompletedMay 6, 1998

Published contest rules

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  "early": false,
  "electorate": 11755132,
  "source": "ParlGov",
  "sourceElectionId": 372,
  "sourceElectionType": "parliament",
  "totalSeats": 150,
  "validVotes": 8607787,
  "votesCast": 8622222
}

Candidates

Centre Democrats

Party

Affiliated party: Centre Democrats

Christian Democratic Appeal

Party

Affiliated party: Christian Democratic Appeal

Democrats 66

Party

Affiliated party: Democrats 66

Gereformeerd Politiek Verbond

Party

Affiliated party: Gereformeerd Politiek Verbond

GroenLinks

Party

Affiliated party: GroenLinks

Partij van de Arbeid

Party

Affiliated party: Partij van de Arbeid

Reformatory Political Federation

Party

Affiliated party: Reformatory Political Federation

Socialist Party

Party

Affiliated party: Socialist Party

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 — 1998-05-06 · Centrumdemocraten

Round 1 · Aug 15, 2024 · Preliminary

Votes: 52,226
Seats: 0
Original value: 0.61
Published precision: 2

Dataset hash: 7b22b75389bf1b443f284a24ffef158e04461304d445876f61ce5be9bfcbcb7e

Netherlands — Parliamentary election — 1998-05-06 · Staatkundig Gereformeerde Partij

Round 1 · Aug 15, 2024 · Preliminary

Votes: 153,583
Seats: 3
Original value: 1.78
Published precision: 2

Dataset hash: 7b22b75389bf1b443f284a24ffef158e04461304d445876f61ce5be9bfcbcb7e

Netherlands — Parliamentary election — 1998-05-06 · Socialistische Partij

Round 1 · Aug 15, 2024 · Preliminary

Votes: 303,703
Seats: 5
Original value: 3.53
Published precision: 2

Dataset hash: 7b22b75389bf1b443f284a24ffef158e04461304d445876f61ce5be9bfcbcb7e

Netherlands — Parliamentary election — 1998-05-06 · Gereformeerd Politiek Verbond

Round 1 · Aug 15, 2024 · Preliminary

Votes: 108,724
Seats: 2
Original value: 1.26
Published precision: 2

Dataset hash: 7b22b75389bf1b443f284a24ffef158e04461304d445876f61ce5be9bfcbcb7e

Netherlands — Parliamentary election — 1998-05-06 · GroenLinks

Round 1 · Aug 15, 2024 · Preliminary

Votes: 625,968
Seats: 11
Original value: 7.27
Published precision: 2

Dataset hash: 7b22b75389bf1b443f284a24ffef158e04461304d445876f61ce5be9bfcbcb7e

Netherlands — Parliamentary election — 1998-05-06 · Democraten 66

Round 1 · Aug 15, 2024 · Preliminary

Votes: 773,497
Seats: 14
Original value: 8.99
Published precision: 2

Dataset hash: 7b22b75389bf1b443f284a24ffef158e04461304d445876f61ce5be9bfcbcb7e

Netherlands — Parliamentary election — 1998-05-06 · Partij van de Arbeid

Round 1 · Aug 15, 2024 · Preliminary

Votes: 2,494,555
Seats: 45
Original value: 28.98
Published precision: 2

Dataset hash: 7b22b75389bf1b443f284a24ffef158e04461304d445876f61ce5be9bfcbcb7e

Netherlands — Parliamentary election — 1998-05-06 · Reformatorische Politieke Federatie

Round 1 · Aug 15, 2024 · Preliminary

Votes: 174,593
Seats: 3
Original value: 2.03
Published precision: 2

Dataset hash: 7b22b75389bf1b443f284a24ffef158e04461304d445876f61ce5be9bfcbcb7e

Netherlands — Parliamentary election — 1998-05-06 · Christen-Democratisch Appèl

Round 1 · Aug 15, 2024 · Preliminary

Votes: 1,581,053
Seats: 29
Original value: 18.37
Published precision: 2

Dataset hash: 7b22b75389bf1b443f284a24ffef158e04461304d445876f61ce5be9bfcbcb7e

Netherlands — Parliamentary election — 1998-05-06 · Volkspartij voor Vrijheid en Democratie

Round 1 · Aug 15, 2024 · Preliminary

Votes: 2,124,971
Seats: 38
Original value: 24.69
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