# 1986 Dutch general election

General elections were held in the Netherlands on 21 May 1986. The Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA) emerged as the largest party, winning 54 of the 150 seats in the House of Representatives.
The incumbent CDA-VVD coalition maintained exactly the same number of seats as they had achieved at the last general election and continued working together in government with the CDA's Ruud Lubbers as Prime Minister.

## Electoral system

The Dutch parliament was elected using party-list proportional representation with a single nationwide constituency.

## Results

| | Christian Democratic Appeal | 3,172,918 | 34.59 | 54 | +9 |
| | Labour Party | 3,051,678 | 33.27 | 52 | +5 |
| | People's Party for Freedom and Democracy | 1,596,991 | 17.41 | 27 | –9 |
| | Democrats 66 | 562,466 | 6.13 | 9 | +3 |
| | Reformed Political Party | 159,740 | 1.74 | 3 | 0 |
| | Political Party of Radicals | 115,203 | 1.26 | 2 | 0 |
| | Pacifist Socialist Party | 110,182 | 1.20 | 1 | –2 |
| | Reformed Political League | 88,381 | 0.96 | 1 | 0 |
| | Reformatory Political Federation | 83,582 | 0.91 | 1 | –1 |
| | Communist Party of the Netherlands | 57,847 | 0.63 | 0 | –3 |
| | Centre Party | 36,741 | 0.40 | 0 | –1 |
| | Socialist Party | 32,144 | 0.35 | 0 | 0 |
| | Evangelical People's Party | 21,998 | 0.24 | 0 | –1 |
| | Federation of Greens | 18,641 | 0.20 | 0 | New |
| | Party for the Middle Groups | 15,297 | 0.17 | 0 | New |
| | Loesje | 12,882 | 0.14 | 0 | New |
| | Centre Democrats | 12,277 | 0.13 | 0 | New |
| | League of Communists in the Netherlands | 4,618 | 0.05 | 0 | New |
| | Partij voor Ambtenaren & Trendvolgers | 4,500 | 0.05 | 0 | New |
| | Anti Revolutionaries '85 [nl] | 3,664 | 0.04 | 0 | New |
| | Socialist Workers' Party | 3,634 | 0.04 | 0 | New |
| | God with Us [nl] | 2,375 | 0.03 | 0 | 0 |
| | General Interest Party | 2,128 | 0.02 | 0 | New |
| | Luck for Everyone Party | 1,184 | 0.01 | 0 | New |
| | Wissink List | 560 | 0.01 | 0 | New |
| | Humanist Party | 463 | 0.01 | 0 | New |
| | Brummer List | 65 | 0.00 | 0 | New |
| Total | Total | 9,172,159 | 100.00 | 150 | 0 |
| Valid votes | Valid votes | 9,172,159 | 99.70 | | |
| Invalid/blank votes | Invalid/blank votes | 27,462 | 0.30 | | |
| Total votes | Total votes | 9,199,621 | 100.00 | | |
| Registered voters/turnout | Registered voters/turnout | 10,727,701 | 85.76 | | |
| Source: Kiesraad ||||||

### By province

Results by province :
| Province | CDA | PvdA | VVD | D66 | SGP | PPR | PSP | GPV | RPF | Others |
| Drenthe | 27.0 | 43.5 | 17.8 | 5.2 | 0.2 | 1.1 | 0.7 | 1.8 | 1.1 | 2.3 |
| Flevoland | 29.8 | 33.6 | 17.2 | 7.9 | 2.6 | 1.3 | 0.7 | 1.6 | 1.9 | 2.2 |
| Friesland | 34.8 | 39.5 | 13.0 | 5.2 | 0.6 | 1.1 | 0.8 | 1.6 | 1.4 | 1.5 |
| Gelderland | 37.5 | 31.5 | 16.4 | 5.4 | 3.0 | 1.4 | 1.1 | 0.7 | 1.3 | 1.7 |
| Groningen | 23.0 | 46.9 | 13.5 | 5.4 | 0.2 | 1.6 | 1.5 | 3.9 | 1.1 | 2.0 |
| Limburg | 46.0 | 34.0 | 11.3 | 4.4 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 0.8 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 2.4 |
| North Brabant | 44.2 | 29.6 | 15.4 | 5.5 | 0.4 | 1.1 | 1.1 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 1.7 |
| North Holland | 27.7 | 34.5 | 21.5 | 7.7 | 0.3 | 1.5 | 2.0 | 0.4 | 0.5 | 3.4 |
| Overijssel | 41.1 | 31.2 | 13.3 | 4.8 | 2.2 | 1.1 | 0.8 | 2.3 | 1.7 | 3.1 |
| South Holland | 29.4 | 33.7 | 19.7 | 7.0 | 3.1 | 1.1 | 1.1 | 0.8 | 1.0 | 3.9 |
| Utrecht | 33.8 | 26.6 | 21.6 | 7.0 | 2.5 | 1.7 | 1.6 | 1.6 | 1.2 | 1.6 |
| Zeeland | 32.9 | 29.6 | 17.8 | 5.5 | 7.9 | 1.0 | 0.7 | 1.4 | 1.5 | 2.9 |