The European Parliament election of 1994 in the Netherlands was the election of MEP representing Netherlands constituency

Netherlands (European Parliament constituency)

In European elections, the Netherlands is a constituency of the European Parliament, currently represented by twenty-five MEPs. It covers the member state of the Netherlands...

 for the 1994-1999 term of the European Parliament

European Parliament

The European Parliament is the directly elected parliamentary institution of the European Union . Together with the Council of the European Union and the Commission, it exercises the legislative function of the EU and it has been described as one of the most powerful legislatures in the world...

. It was part of the wider 1994 European election

European Parliament election, 1994

The 1994 European Parliamentary Election was a European election held across the 12 European Union member states in June 1994.This election saw the merge of the European People's Party and European Democrats, an increase in the overall number of seats and a fall in overall turnout to...

. It was held on on June 9, 1994.
Eleven parties competed in a D'Hondt

D'Hondt method

The d'Hondt method is a highest averages method for allocating seats in party-list proportional representation. The method described is named after Belgian mathematician Victor D'Hondt who described it in 1878...

 type election for 31 seats. (up from 25).

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:

1. SGP, RPF
   Reformatory Political Federation
   The Reformatory Political Federation was a minor Protestant Christian political party in the Netherlands.-History:The RPF was founded in 1975 by three groups of orthodox Christians...
   
    and GPV

Voting right

All subjects from other member states in the Netherlands were allowed to vote this election. It's no longer necessary that the member state of which the subject is from does the same.
Only for this election no ahead registration had to take place to take part.

These people got right to vote in this fifth election for the European Parliament in 1994 in the Netherlands:

• Everyone who was allowed to vote in the Dutch parliament elections;
• Dutch who are resident anywhere in the world and did not already have voting rights for the Dutch Parliament elections; (except for Dutch living in the Netherlands Antilles
  Netherlands Antilles
  The Netherlands Antilles , also referred to informally as the Dutch Antilles, was an autonomous Caribbean country within the Kingdom of the Netherlands, consisting of two groups of islands in the Lesser Antilles: Aruba, Bonaire and Curaçao , in Leeward Antilles just off the Venezuelan coast; and Sint...
  
   and Aruba
  Aruba
  Aruba is a 33 km-long island of the Lesser Antilles in the southern Caribbean Sea, located 27 km north of the coast of Venezuela and 130 km east of Guajira Peninsula...
  
  , because they vote for the Estates of the Netherlands Antilles
  Estates of the Netherlands Antilles
  The Estates of the Netherlands Antilles were the parliament of the Netherlands Antilles. They had 22 members, elected for a four year term in three multi-seat constuencies and 2 single-seat constuencies. On 10 October 2010 the Netherlands Antilles were dissolved, and so were their Estates.-2010...
  
  . Dutch from the Netherlands Antilles en Aruba are allowed to vote for European Elections if they lived for at least 10 years in the Netherlands.)
• Subjects of one of the other Member States which have residence in the Netherlands.

Dutch political parties

The liberal VVD and D66 parties and the orthodox Protestant alliance of Political Reformed Party, Reformatory Political Federation

Reformatory Political Federation

The Reformatory Political Federation was a minor Protestant Christian political party in the Netherlands.-History:The RPF was founded in 1975 by three groups of orthodox Christians...

 and Reformed Political Alliance profited from the expansion of the number of seats. While the Christian Democratic Appeal

Christian Democratic Appeal

The Christian Democratic Appeal is a centre-right Dutch Christian democratic political party. It suffered severe losses in the 2010 elections and fell from the first to the fourth place...

 and the Labour Party lost a considerable number of votes, but remained stabile in seats. 35,7% of the Dutch citizens turned out

Voter turnout

Voter turnout is the percentage of eligible voters who cast a ballot in an election . After increasing for many decades, there has been a trend of decreasing voter turnout in most established democracies since the 1960s...

 on election day.

Elected Members

Source:

Christian Democratic Appeal

Christian Democratic Appeal

The Christian Democratic Appeal is a centre-right Dutch Christian democratic political party. It suffered severe losses in the 2010 elections and fell from the first to the fourth place...

1. Hanja Maij-Weggen
   Hanja Maij-Weggen
   Johanna Rika Hermanna Maij-Weggen is a former Dutch politician. From 1989 until 1994 she was Minister of Transport, Public Works and Water Management in the third cabinet of prime minister Ruud Lubbers, and from 2003 until 2009 the Queen's Commissioner of the province of North Brabant.-Life and...
   
   
2. Peter Pex
3. Wim van Velzen
4. Bartho Pronk
5. Arie Oostlander
6. Jan Sonneveld
7. Karla Peijs
   Karla Peijs
   Karla Maria Henriëtte Peijs is a Dutch politician of the CDA. She was minister of Transport and Waterworks in the second and third Balkenende cabinet. In August 2006 she announced she would not be accepting a position in a new cabinet. On 1 March 2007 she was appointed Queen's Commissioner for the...
   
   
8. Ria Oomen-Ruijten
   Ria Oomen-Ruijten
   Ria Oomen-Ruijten is a Dutch politician and Member of the European Parliament. She is a member of the Christian Democratic Appeal, a member of the bureau of the EPP-ED group, and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Employment and Social Affairs.She is also a substitute for the Committee...
   
   
9. Jim Janssen van Raaij
10. Pam Cornelissen

Dutch Labour Party

1. Piet Dankert
2. Leonie van Bladel
3. Jan Marinus Wiersma
   Jan Marinus Wiersma
   Jan Marinus Wiersma is a Dutch politician and from 1994-2009 Member of the European Parliament. He is a member of the Labour Party, vice-chair of the Party of European Socialists group, and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Foreign Affairs.He was also a member of the Subcommittee on...
   
   
4. Frits Castricum
   Frits Castricum
   Frits Castricum was a Dutch journalist and Labour Party politician. He was a member of the House of Representatives of the Netherlands from 1977 to 1994, the European Parliament from 1994 to 1999 and the Senate of the Netherlands from 1999 to 2003.-References:...
   
   
5. Hedy d'Ancona
6. Wim van Velzen
7. Maartje van Putten
   Maartje van Putten
   Maria Jeanette Anna van Putten is a Dutch politician and was a member of the European Parliament for the Dutch Labour Party between 1989 to 1999, in which she was committed to the protection of nature and environment in developing countries...
   
   
8. Alman Metten

People's Party for Freedom and Democracy

People's Party for Freedom and Democracy

The People's Party for Freedom and Democracy is a conservative-liberal political party located in the Netherlands. The VVD supports private enterprise in the Netherlands and is often perceived as an economic liberal party in contrast to the social-liberal Democrats 66 alongside which it sits in...

1. Jessica Larive
2. Jan Mulder
3. Elly Plooij-van Gorsel
   Elly Plooij-van Gorsel
   Pieternella Cornelia Plooij-van Gorsel was a Member of the European Parliament in the delegation of the liberal People's Party for Freedom and Democracy for ten years.-Early life :Van Gorsel attended high school until 1965, specializing in science...
   
   
4. Gijs de Vries
   Gijs de Vries
   Gijs M. de Vries is a Dutch Democrats 66 politician. He was deputy Interior Minister between 1998 and 2002, and was the European Union's anti-terrorism co-ordinator from 25 March 2004 to March 2007...
   
   
5. Jan-Kees Wiebenga
6. Florus Wijsenbeek

Democrats 66

Democrats 66

Democrats 66 is a progressive and social-liberal political party in the Netherlands. D66 was formed in 1966 by a group of politically unaligned, young intellectuals, led by journalist Hans van Mierlo. The party's main objective was to democratise the political system; it proposed to create an...

1. Johanna Boogerd-Quaak
2. Laurens Jan Brinkhorst
   Laurens Jan Brinkhorst
   Laurens Jan Brinkhorst is a Dutch D66 politician.Brinkhorst was an undersecretary of state of foreign affairs and a minister of agriculture. Furthermore he was the leader of the D66-group in the Second Chamber of the Dutch parliament...
   
   
3. Doeke Eisma
4. Jan-Willem Bertens

Political Reformed Party, Reformatory Political Federation

Reformatory Political Federation

The Reformatory Political Federation was a minor Protestant Christian political party in the Netherlands.-History:The RPF was founded in 1975 by three groups of orthodox Christians...

 and Reformed Political Alliance

1. Hans Blokland
   Johannes Blokland
   Johannes Blokland is a former Dutch politician and former Member of the European Parliament...
   
    (GPV)
2. Leen van der Waal
   Leen van der Waal
   Leendert van der Waal is a Dutch engineer and former politician. He is a member of the Reformed Political Party and former Member of the European Parliament.- References :...
   
    (SGP)

GreenLeft

GreenLeft

GreenLeft is a green political party operating in the Netherlands.GreenLeft was formed on 1 March 1989 as a merger of four left-wing political parties: the Communist Party of the Netherlands, Pacifist Socialist Party, the Political Party of Radicals and the Evangelical People's Party...

1. Nel van Dijk

MEPs period 1994-1999

Below is a list of members of the European Parliament for the period 1994-1999 as a result of this election.