1977 Dutch general election

1977 Dutch general election

← 1972 25 May 1977 1981 →
All 150 seats in the House of Representatives 76 seats needed for a majority
Turnout	88.1% ( 4.6 pp)
Party Leader % Seats +/– PvdA Joop den Uyl 33.8% 53 +10 CDA Dries van Agt 31.9% 49 +1 VVD Hans Wiegel 17.9% 28 +6 D66 Jan Terlouw 5.4% 8 +2 SGP Hette Abma 2.1% 3 0 CPN Marcus Bakker 1.7% 2 −5 PPR Ria Beckers 1.6% 3 −4 GPV Bart Verbrugh 0.9% 1 −1 PSP Bram van der Lek 0.9% 1 −1 BP Hendrik Koekoek 0.8% 1 −2 DS'70 Willem Drees Jr. 0.7% 1 −5 This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below. Most voted-for party by municipality Cabinet before Cabinet after Den Uyl cabinet PvdA–KVP–ARP–D66–PPR First Van Agt cabinet CDA–VVD

General elections were held in the Netherlands on 25 May 1977.^[1] The Labour Party remained the largest party, winning 53 of the 150 seats in the House of Representatives.^[2] Following the election, it took 208 days of negotiations to form a new government. This was a European record for longest government formation that stood until after the 2010 Belgian general election.^[3] The Christian Democratic Appeal was formed by the Anti-Revolutionary Party (ARP), Christian Historical Union (CHU) and the Catholic People's Party (KVP) in 1976. The first joint party leader was a member of the KVP, Dries van Agt.

Eventually a coalition was formed between the Christian Democratic Appeal and the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy with Dries van Agt as Prime Minister.