1981 Dutch General Election
26 May 1981 · Depillarisation · 150 seats, 76 for a majority
The incumbent Christian Democratic Appeal-People's Party for Freedom and Democracy coalition lost its overall majority leading to a new coalition being formed between the CDA, the Labour Party (PvdA) and Democrats 66, with the CDA's Dries van Agt continuing as Prime Minister.
Prime Minister before
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Prime Minister (continued)
Dries van Agt
CDA
Largest force
CDA
48 of 150 seats
Turnout
87.0%
The result
| Share of the House of Representatives | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CDA | Dries van Agt | 48 | -1 | — | 30.8% | — | |
| PvdA | Joop den Uyl | 44 | -9 | — | 28.3% | — | |
| VVD | Hans Wiegel | 26 | -2 | — | 17.3% | — | |
| D66 | Jan Terlouw | 17 | +9 | — | 11.1% | — | |
| PSP | Fred van der Spek | 3 | +2 | — | 2.1% | — | |
| CPN | Marcus Bakker | 3 | +1 | — | 2.1% | — | |
| SGP | Henk van Rossum | 3 | 0 | — | 2.0% | — | |
| PPR | Ria Beckers | 3 | 0 | — | 2.0% | — | |
| RPF | Meindert Leerling | 2 | +2 | — | 1.2% | — | |
| GPV | Gert Schutte | 1 | 0 | — | 0.8% | — |