1972 Dutch general election

1972 Dutch general election

← 1971 29 November 1972 1977 →
All 150 seats in the House of Representatives 76 seats needed for a majority
Turnout	83.5% ( 4.4 pp)
Party Leader % Seats +/– PvdA Joop den Uyl 27.3% 43 +4 KVP Frans Andriessen 17.7% 27 −8 VVD Hans Wiegel 14.4% 22 +6 ARP Barend Biesheuvel 8.8% 14 +1 PPR Bas de Gaay Fortman 4.8% 7 +5 CHU Arnold Tilanus 4.4% 7 −3 CPN Marcus Bakker 4.4% 7 +1 D66 Hans van Mierlo 4.1% 6 −5 DS'70 Willem Drees Jr. 4.1% 6 −2 SGP Hette Abma 2.2% 3 0 BP Hendrik Koekoek 1.9% 3 +2 GPV Piet Jongeling 1.8% 2 0 PSP Bram van der Lek 1.5% 2 0 RKPN Klaas Beuker 0.9% 1 New This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below. Seats Cabinet before Cabinet after Second Biesheuvel cabinet KVP–VVD–ARP–CHU Den Uyl cabinet PvdA–KVP–ARP–D66–PPR

Early general elections were held in the Netherlands on 29 November 1972.^[1] The Labour Party (PvdA) remained the largest party, winning 43 of the 150 seats in the House of Representatives.^[2]

The elections led to a five-party coalition government consisting of the PvdA, the Catholic People's Party, the Anti-Revolutionary Party, the Political Party of Radicals and Democrats 1966 with the PvdA's Joop den Uyl as Prime Minister.