# 1984 European Parliament election in the Netherlands

An election for Members of the European Parliament representing Netherlands constituency for the 1984–1989 term of the European Parliament was held on 14 June 1984. It was part of the wider 1984 European election. Nine parties competed in a D'Hondt type election for 25 seats.

## Background
### Combined lists

Several parties combined in one list to take part in this European Election and increase their chance on a seat in the European Parliament. These combined lists are:
* Green Progressive Accord of CPN, PSP, PPR and Green Party of the Netherlands
* SGP, RPF and GPV

### Electoral alliances

Two lists formed an electoral alliance:
* PvdA/European Social-Democrats and Green Progressive Accord

### Voting right

These people got right to vote in this second election for the European Parliament in 1984 in the Netherlands:
* Everyone who was allowed to vote in the Dutch parliament elections;
* Dutch who are resident in other Member States and did not already have voting rights for the Dutch Parliament elections;
* Subjects of one of the other Member States which have residence in the Netherlands. Provided that the state of which they are from granted the same.

### Numbering of the candidates list

The official order and names of candidate lists:
Candidate lists for the European Parliament election in the Netherlands :
| ← 1979 1984 1989 → ||||||
| Lists |||||
| List | List | List | English translation | List name (Dutch) |
| 1 | | list | CDA European People's Party | CDA Europese Volkspartij |
| 2 | | list | Labour Party/European Socialists | Partij van de Arbeid/Europese Socialisten |
| 3 | | list | VVD - European Liberal-Democrats | VVD - Europese Liberaal-Democraten |
| 4 | | list | D'66 | D'66 |
| 5 | | list | SGP, RPF and GPV | SGP, RPF en GPV |
| 6 | | list | C.P.N. Green Party Netherlands P.P.R. P.S.P. | C.P.N. Groene Partij Nederland P.P.R. P.S.P. |
| 7 | | list | European Greens | Europese Groenen |
| 8 | | list | Centre Party | Centrumpartij |
| 9 | | list | God with Us | God met Ons |

## Results

In these elections both the leftwing CPN, PSP, PPR and Green Party of the Netherlands parties and the orthodox Protestant SGP, GPV, RPF parties have formed a successful common lists, which win two respectively one seat. the progressive liberal D'66 loses its two seats and disappears from the parliament. 50.88% of the Dutch population turned out on election day.
| Party | Party | Votes | % | Seats | +/– |
| | Labour Party | 1,785,165 | 33.70 | 9 | 0 |
| | Christian Democratic Appeal | 1,590,218 | 30.02 | 8 | –2 |
| | People's Party for Freedom and Democracy | 1,002,685 | 18.93 | 5 | +1 |
| | Green Progressive Accord | 296,488 | 5.60 | 2 | +2 |
| | SGP–GPV–RPF | 275,786 | 5.21 | 1 | +1 |
| | Centre Party | 134,877 | 2.55 | 0 | New |
| | Democrats 66 | 120,826 | 2.28 | 0 | –2 |
| | European Greens | 67,413 | 1.27 | 0 | New |
| | God with Us | 23,291 | 0.44 | 0 | 0 |
| Total | Total | 5,296,749 | 100.00 | 25 | 0 |
| Valid votes | Valid votes | 5,296,749 | 99.29 | | |
| Invalid/blank votes | Invalid/blank votes | 37,833 | 0.71 | | |
| Total votes | Total votes | 5,334,582 | 100.00 | | |
| Registered voters/turnout | Registered voters/turnout | 10,485,014 | 50.88 | | |
| Source: Kiesraad ||||||

### European groups

Summary of the 14 June 1984 European Parliament elections in the Netherlands :
| ← 1979 1984 1989 → |||||||||||
| European group | European group | European group | Seats 1979 | Seats 1984 | Change |
| | Confederation of Socialist Parties | SOC | 9 | 9 | 0 |
| | European People's Party | EPP | 10 | 8 | 2 |
| | European Liberal Democrats | LD | 4 | 5 | 1 |
| | Rainbow Group | RBW | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| | Non-Inscrits | NI | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| | | | 25 | 25 | 0 |