1982 Dutch general election

1982 Dutch general election

← 1981 8 September 1982 1986 →
All 150 seats in the House of Representatives 76 seats needed for a majority
Turnout	80.98% ( 6.05pp)
Party Leader Vote % Seats +/– PvdA Joop den Uyl 30.40 47 +3 CDA Dries van Agt 29.39 45 −3 VVD Ed Nijpels 23.08 36 +10 D66 Jan Terlouw 4.26 6 −11 PSP Fred van der Spek [nl] 2.28 3 0 SGP Henk van Rossum 1.90 3 0 CPN Ina Brouwer 1.79 3 0 PPR Ria Beckers 1.66 2 −1 RPF Meindert Leerling 1.51 2 0 CP Hans Janmaat 0.83 1 +1 GPV Gert Schutte 0.82 1 0 EVP Cathy Ubels-Veen 0.69 1 +1 This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below. Most voted-for party by municipality Cabinet before Cabinet after Third Van Agt cabinet CDA–D66 First Lubbers cabinet CDA–VVD

Early general elections were held in the Netherlands on 8 September 1982.^[1][2] The Labour Party emerged as the largest party, winning 47 of the 150 seats in the House of Representatives;^[3] however, this would be the last time it did so until 1994.

The Centre Party received 0.8% of the vote, winning one seat, which was taken by Hans Janmaat. This was the first time since World War II that a party considered to be right-wing extremist won a seat in the Dutch parliament.

Following the election the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA) formed a coalition government with the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy, with the CDA's Ruud Lubbers becoming prime minister.