| Election Name: | 1989 European Parliament election in the Netherlands |
| Country: | Netherlands |
| Flag Year: | 1989 |
| Type: | Parliamentary |
| Ongoing: | no |
| Previous Election: | 1984 European Parliament election in the Netherlands |
| Previous Year: | 1984 |
| Next Election: | 1994 European Parliament election in the Netherlands |
| Next Year: | 1994 |
| Seats For Election: | 25 seats to the European Parliament |
| Election Date: | 15 June 1989 |
| Turnout: | 47.48% |
| Party1: | Christian Democratic Appeal |
| Leader1: | Jean Penders |
| Alliance1: | EPP |
| Popular Vote1: | 1,814,107 |
| Percentage1: | 34.60% |
| Swing1: | 4.58% |
| Seat Change1: | 1 |
| Party2: | Labour Party (Netherlands) |
| Leader2: | Piet Dankert |
| Alliance2: | SOC |
| Popular Vote2: | 1,609,626 |
| Percentage2: | 30.70% |
| Swing2: | 3.00% |
| Seat Change2: | 0 |
| Party3: | People's Party for Freedom and Democracy |
| Leader3: | Gijs de Vries |
| Alliance3: | LDR |
| Popular Vote3: | 714,745 |
| Percentage3: | 13.63% |
| Swing3: | 5.30% |
| Seat Change3: | 2 |
| Party4: | Rainbow (Netherlands) |
| Image4: | 100px |
| Leader4: | Herman Verbeek |
| Alliance4: | RBW |
| Popular Vote4: | 365,535 |
| Percentage4: | 6.97% |
| Swing4: | 1.37% |
| Seat Change4: | 0 |
| Party5: | Democrats 66 |
| Leader5: | Jan-Willem Bertens |
| Alliance5: | LDR |
| Popular Vote5: | 311,990 |
| Percentage5: | 5.95% |
| Swing5: | 3.67% |
| Seat Change5: | 1 |
| Party6: | Reformed Political Party – Reformatory Political Federation – Reformed Political League |
| Leader6: | Leen van der Waal |
| Alliance6: | NI |
| Popular Vote6: | 309,060 |
| Percentage6: | 5.90% |
| Swing6: | 0.69% |
| Seat Change6: | 0 |
An election for Members of the European Parliament representing Netherlands constituency for the 1989–1994 term of the European Parliament was held on 15 June 1989. It was part of the wider 1989 European election. Ten parties competed in a D'Hondt type election for 25 seats.
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:
No lists formed an electoral alliance
All Dutch, everywhere in the world were granted voting rights this election. Except for the Dutch living in the Netherlands Antilles and Aruba, because they can vote for the Estates of the Netherlands Antilles. However, if the subject lived for 10 years or longer in the Netherlands they can still vote for the European Elections.
These people got right to vote in this fourth election for the European Parliament in 1989 in the Netherlands:[1]
In the election the conservative liberal VVD loses seats to the progressive liberal D66, who return to the European parliament after a five-year absence. 47.48% of the Dutch population turned out on election day.
| style="text-align:center;" colspan="11" | |-|style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:center;vertical-align:top;" colspan="3"|European group!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |Seats 1984!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |Seats 1989!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |Change|-| | style="text-align:left;" | European People's Party| style="text-align:left;" | EPP| style="text-align:right;" | 9| style="text-align:right;" | 10| style="text-align:right;" | 1 |-| | style="text-align:left;" | Confederation of Socialist Parties| style="text-align:left;" | SOC| style="text-align:right;" | 8| style="text-align:right;" | 8| style="text-align:right;" | 0 |-| style="background-color:gold;" width=0.3em|| style="text-align:left;" | Liberal and Democratic Reformist Group| style="text-align:left;" | LDR| style="text-align:right;" | 5| style="text-align:right;" | 4| style="text-align:right;" | 1 |-| | style="text-align:left;" | Rainbow Group| style="text-align:left;" | RBW| style="text-align:right;" | 2| style="text-align:right;" | 2| style="text-align:right;" | 0 |-| | style="text-align:left;" | Non-Inscrits| style="text-align:left;" | NI| style="text-align:right;" | 1| style="text-align:right;" | 1| style="text-align:right;" | 0 |-|width="350" style="text-align:right;background-color:#E9E9E9" colspan="3"||width="30" style="text-align:right;background-color:#E9E9E9"| 25|width="30" style="text-align:right;background-color:#E9E9E9"| 25|width="30" style="text-align:right;background-color:#E9E9E9"| 0 |}
Below are the members elected in the 1989 European elections.
People's Party for Freedom and Democracy
Below is a complete list of members of the European Parliament for the period 1989–1994 as a result of this election.