List of candidates in the 2012 Dutch general election explained

Prior to the 2012 Dutch general election, contesting parties put forward party lists.

1: People's Party for Freedom and Democracy

Position! scope="col"

Candidate	Votes	Result
1		2,129,000	Elected
2		123,889	Elected
3		9,316	Elected
4		13,677	Elected
5		35,103	Elected
6		39,197	Elected
7		4,285	Elected
8		12,409	Elected
9		3,234	Elected
10		4,343	Elected
11		7,786	Elected
12		14,403	Elected
13		4,636	Elected
14		1,904	Elected
15		2,021	Elected
16		3,200	Elected
17		1,555	Elected
18		1,204	Elected
19		8,993	Elected
20		1,874	Elected
21		3,509	Elected
22		3,734	Elected
23		2,862	Elected
24		8,948	Elected
25		2,010	Elected
26		1,303	Elected
27		1,178	Elected
28		1,733	Elected
29		6,732	Elected
30		3,319	Elected
31		1,130	Elected
32		1,470	Elected
33		634	Elected
34		6,800	Elected
35		1,194	Elected
36		2,163	Elected
37		1,305	Elected
38		1,874	Elected
39		1,196	Elected
40		860	Elected
41		556	Elected
42		857	Replacement
43		3,709	Replacement
44		2,207	Replacement
45		1,352	Replacement
46		204	Replacement
47		443	Replacement
48		777	Replacement
49		728	Replacement
50		1,225	Replacement
51		1,974	Replacement
52		1,536	Replacement
53		709	Replacement
54		406	Replacement
55		576
56		245	Replacement
57		953
58		790	Replacement
59		631
60		548
61		339
62		591
63		296
64		353
65		169
66		519
67		337
68		118
69		315
70		547
71		254
72		704
73		792
74		508
75		2,697
Total

2: Labour Party

Position! scope="col"

Candidate	Votes	Result
1		1,809,856	Elected
2		192,190	Elected
3		58,427	Elected
4		28,704	Elected
5		4,336	Elected
6		8,744	Elected
7		4,531	Elected
8		15,150	Elected
9		3,830	Elected
10		3,050	Elected
11		16,082	Elected
12		2,370	Elected
13		6,448	Elected
14		13,289	Elected
15		1,949	Elected
16		2,279	Elected
17		658	Elected
18		3,451	Elected
19		2,193	Elected
20		8,541	Elected
21		789	Elected
22		5,207	Elected
23		598	Elected
24		3,247	Elected
25		896	Elected
26		8,403	Elected
27		23,067	Elected
28		2,569	Elected
29		4,664	Elected
30		6,625	Elected
31		6,884	Elected
32		3,732	Elected
33		5,413	Elected
34		871	Elected
35		5,176	Elected
36		980	Elected
37		508	Elected
38		576	Elected
39		9,831	Replacement
40		867	Replacement
41		692	Replacement
42		1,990	Replacement
43		392	Replacement
44		3,377	Replacement
45		3,277	Replacement
46		623	Replacement
47		417	Replacement
48		626	Replacement
49		431	Replacement
50		4,549
51		2,339
52		5,243
53		2,016
54		985
55		473
56		528
57		349
58		338
59		433
60		548
61		361
62		284
63		248
64		256
65		335
66		401
67		419
68		308
69		275
70		267
71		324
72		621
73		1,482
74		5,929
75	Regional candidates
76	Regional candidates
77	Regional candidates
78	Regional candidates
79	Regional candidates
Total

Regional candidates

Candidate! scope="col" rowspan="2"

Votes	Result	Position
scope="col"
	368										77
	126					78
	375				76
	34													75
	320							75
	133											75	75
	729										79
	169														75
	245									78
	146												76
	164		75
	385																				75
	149														78
	1,135					79
	202													77
	290		76
	48							77
	248		79
	226			76
	123																	75
	88						77
	384																			75
	169								78
	678														77							75
	240								79
	94																75
	232						78
	115													76
	183																			77
	564					77
	58										76
	177																		78
	121							79
	173							76
	251			79
	69																78
	31						75
	242								75
	938					75
	119			75
	233														79
	241				78
	266			77
	144															75
	247		77
	186																	77
	205		78
	100									75
	104							78
	435																		76
	299				79
	315												77
	139													79								76
	50															76
	91											76
	100																76
	77						76
	135															79
	188									77
	57											77
	145				75
	47													78								78
	52															78
	284																			79
	75																77
	196																	76
	238			78
	161																				76
	42										75
	717														76
	303																	79
	96															77
	179																	78
	80								76
	677																				78
	65				77
	860									79												79
	221					76
	249																79
	77											78										77
	50												78
	419						79
	150									76
	377										78
	845																				77
	154											79
	442												79
	76								77
	146																		75
	279																			76
	201																		77	78
	147																		79
	430																				79

3: Party for Freedom

Position! scope="col"

Candidate	Votes	Result
1		886,314	Elected
2		34,943	Elected
3		3,808	Elected
4		3,794	Elected
5		958	Elected
6		590	Elected
7		644	Elected
8		829	Elected
9		581	Elected
10		433	Elected
11		2,387	Elected
12		694	Elected
13		1,113	Elected
14		347	Elected
15		376	Elected
16		342	Replacement
17		435
18		461
19		386
20		221
21		423
22		143
23		230
24		890
25		247
26		362
27		229
28		531
29		210
30		288
31		84
32		627
33		212
34		460
35		359
36		213
37		210
38		955
39		223
40		265
41		136
42		90
43		76
44		199
45		412
46		332
47		100
48		157
49		1,944
Total

4: Christian Democratic Appeal

Position! scope="col"

Candidate	Votes	Result
1		517,397	Elected
2		127,446	Elected
3		15,814	Elected
4		8,466	Elected
5		1,382	Elected
6		2,719	Elected
7		3,765	Elected
8		5,648	Elected
9		9,824	Elected
10		702	Elected
11		981	Elected
12		3,558	Elected
13		13,952	Replacement
14		3,985	Replacement
15		2,578
16		1,919	Replacement
17		809
18		477
19		6,104
20		5,237
21		1,196
22		594
23		3,515
24		4,158
25		347
26		949
27		678
28		137
29		970
30		732
31		406
32		487
33		335
34		237
35		424
36		6,003
37		1,227
38		455
39		36,750	Elected
40		221
41		369
42		136
43		228
44		426
45		163
46		397
47		129
48		326
49		442
50		404
51		820
52		1,246
53		2,918
54		177
55		105
56		205
57		545
Total

5: Socialist Party

Position! scope="col"

Candidate	Votes	Result
1		755,765	Elected
2		69,146	Elected
3		4,527	Elected
4		10,021	Elected
5		8,977	Elected
6		10,572	Elected
7		5,155	Elected
8		1,506	Elected
9		958	Elected
10		2,111	Elected
11		2,783	Elected
12		994	Elected
13		2,065	Elected
14		1,435	Elected
15		343	Elected
16		626	Replacement
17		1,206	Replacement
18		3,009	Replacement
19		1,393
20		1,434
21		1,469
22		880
23		871
24		283
25		400
26		982
27		417
28		589
29		1,443
30		359
31		441
32		130
33		400
34		360
35		290
36		1,035
37		598
38		149
39		175
40		691
41		500
42		1,360
43		584
44		1,613
45		1,803
46-50	Regional candidates
Total

Regional candidates

Candidate! scope="col" rowspan="2"

Votes	Result	Position
scope="col"
	997		48			47	48	48	48
	211							50
	137			48
	638		49
	308					50
	617								50
	1,103		50	47		49	49
	688				50
	208			49
	1,753			50
	217				49
	273				48		50
	518		46	46	46		46	46	46
	122				47	48		49	49
	215		47			46	47	47	47

6: Democrats 66

Position! scope="col"

Candidate	Votes	Result
1		586,454	Elected
2		71,170	Elected
3		10,413	Elected
4		3,594	Elected
5		15,387	Elected
6		1,435	Elected
7		1,802	Elected
8		989	Elected
9		24,886	Elected
10		2,472	Elected
11		1,569	Elected
12		4,737	Elected
13		5,117	Replacement
14		2,151	Replacement
15		2,345	Replacement
16		1,264
17		1,086
18		1,903
19		510
20		811
21		890
22		838
23		485
24		1,625
25		1,620
26		1,252
27		214
28		377
29		1,627
30		478
31		243
32		649
33		144
34		172
35		460
36		455
37		236
38		165
39		210
40		210
41		256
42		358
43		193
44		300
45		140
46		236
47		162
48		160
49		474
50		2,367
Total

7: GroenLinks

Position! scope="col"

Candidate	Votes	Result
1		171,971	Elected
2		4,639	Elected
3		10,205	Elected
4		3,351	Elected
5		4,477	Replacement
6		1,764	Replacement
7		1,481
8		488
9		1,127	Replacement
10		5,400
11		248
12		1,440
13		282
14		714
15		177
16		860
17		1,458
18		434
19		342
20		326
21		245
22		191
23		162
24		169
25		310
26		578
27		791
28		333
29		368
30		137
31		172
32		226
33		419
34		179
35		419
36		369
37		246
38		159
39		130
40		573
41		148
42		2,388
Total

8: Christian Union

Position! scope="col"

Candidate	Votes	Result
1		229,664	Elected
2		13,877	Elected
3		16,507	Elected
4		2,992	Elected
5		2,604	Elected
6		1,152	Replacement
7		4,672
8		2,262
9		2,111
10		923
11		457
12		1,230
13		1,338
14		615
15		370
16		278
17		307
18		443
19		637
20		540
21		142
22		875
23		236
24		502
25		941
26		370
27		216
28		164
29		145
30		244
31		298
32		267
33		251
34		124
35		254
36		116
37		207
38		140
39		175
40		168
41		103
42		145
43		265
44		225
45		184
46		202
47		245
48		141
49		2,333
50		1,929
Total

9: Reformed Political Party

Number	Candidate	Votes	Result
1		182,189	Elected^[1]
2		5,436	Elected^[2]
3		2,234	Elected^[3]
4		765
5		347
6		243
7		486
8		256
9		598
10		204
11		204
12		426
13		321
14		519
15		216
16		354
17		583
18		103
19		137
20		91
21		94
22		104
23		81
24		146
25		84
26		84
27		262
28		75
29		134
30		304
Total

10: Party for the Animals

Position! scope="col"

Candidate	Votes	Result
1		154,155	Elected
2		11,573	Elected
3		2,677
4		1,575
5		1,320
6		620
7		844
8		693
9		450
10		444
11		651
12		538
13		601
14		548
15		642
16		734
17		375
18		328
19		234
20		330
21		425
22		579
23		389
24		440
25		997
Total

11: Pirate Party

Position! scope="col"

Candidate	Votes	Result
1		23,581
2		788
3		474
4		334
5		2,138
6		664
7		404
8		372
9		375
10		586
11		884
Total

12: Party for Human and Spirit

Position! scope="col"

Candidate	Votes	Result
1		14,280
2		553
3		232
4		213
5		347
6		194
7		149
8		129
9		237
10		138
11		89
12		163
13		48
14		73
15		77
16		44
17		137
18		41
19		72
20		40
21		70
22		108
23		34
24		38
25		115
26		37
27		46
28		32
29		59
30		46
31		15
32		96
33		45
34		119
35		36
36		48
37		110
Total

13: Netherlands Local

Position! scope="col"

Candidate	Votes	Result
1		1,025
37		40
Total

Regional candidates

Candidate! scope="col" rowspan="2"

Votes	Result	Position
scope="col"
	119		33	33	33	33	33	23	27	25	25	30	30	35	22	18	19	18	3	3	5	17
	39		35	35	35	35	35	35	24	35	23	27	27	32	35	24	35	24	17	5	2	19
	10		26	26	26	26	26	12	13	15	16	21	22	9	3	7	11	11	14	17	17	4
	46		13	13	13	17	17	15	7	2	5	5	8	11	11	11	4	16	20	20	19	28
	45		8	3	8	6	5	20	20	19	18	8	6	20	25	27	25	27	31	32	35	20
	30		9	4	9	7	6	21	21	20	19	9	7	21	26	28	26	28	32	33	36	24
	104		16	16	16	15	2	17	17	5	2	3	2	17	17	20	14	20	21	34	26	36
	108		27	27	27	27	27	27	31	27	34	34	34	14	14	14	21	2	5	8	9	30
	19		11	11	11	3	13	5	5	22	21	11	15	23	28	30	28	30	26	24	23	16
	24		31	31	31	31	31	26	30	17	28	33	33	13	13	13	13	13	36	36	8	27
	15		22	22	22	21	22	14	15	14	12	20	20	2	6	10	8	9	16	16	29	31
	55		21	21	21	22	21	8	9	10	11	16	24	5	5	3	6	6	10	12	13	7
	57		5	6	3	12	11	34	23	34	33	26	13	31	34	36	34	36	29	27	30	22
	48		18	18	18	18	18	16	16	4	3	2	4	10	10	9	3	15	19	19	25	34
	49		19	19	19	19	19	13	14	3	6	6	19	3	9	8	2	14	15	18	18	33
	35		15	15	15	14	16	3	3	8	9	14	18	26	20	23	17	23	24	22	21	35
	30		4	5	2	11	10	33	22	33	32	25	12	30	33	35	33	35	28	26	28	15
	42		28	28	28	28	28	28	32	28	35	35	35	15	15	15	22	3	7	9	10	8
	21		24	24	24	24	24	10	11	12	14	18	26	7	8	5	9	8	12	14	15	26
	19		12	12	12	4	14	6	6	23	22	12	16	24	29	31	29	31	27	25	24	11
	21		30	30	30	30	30	25	29	16	27	32	32	12	12	12	12	12	6	7	7	18
	46		25	25	25	25	25	11	12	13	15	19	21	8	2	6	10	10	13	15	16	2
	86		36	36	36	36	36	36	25	36	7	28	28	33	36	25	36	25	18	6	3	12
	32		32	32	32	32	32	22	26	24	24	29	29	34	21	17	18	17	2	2	4	25
	36		20	20	20	20	20	7	8	9	10	15	23	4	4	2	5	5	9	11	12	21
	19		29	29	29	29	29	29	33	29	36	36	36	16	16	16	23	4	8	10	11	29
	44		3	8	5	9	8	31	35	31	30	23	10	28	31	33	31	33	34	29	32	3
	150		2	7	4	8	7	30	34	30	29	22	9	27	30	32	30	32	33	28	31	5
	18		23	23	23	23	23	9	10	11	13	17	25	6	7	4	7	7	11	13	14	23
	72		7	2	7	5	4	19	19	18	17	7	5	19	24	26	24	26	30	31	34	13
	30		17	17	17	16	3	18	18	6	4	4	3	18	18	21	15	21	22	35	27	32
	23		6	9	6	10	9	32	36	32	31	24	11	29	32	34	32	34	35	30	33	14
	36		34	34	34	34	34	24	28	26	26	31	31	36	23	19	20	19	4	4	6	6
	161		10	10	10	2	12	4	4	21	20	10	14	22	27	29	27	29	25	23	22	10
	88		14	14	14	13	15	2	2	7	8	13	17	25	19	22	16	22	23	21	20	9

14: Libertarian Party

Position! scope="col"

Candidate	Votes	Result
1		2,716
2		146
3		181
4		32
5		41
6		71
7		69
8		86
9		57
10		55
11		24
12		41
13		17
14		28
15		20
16		32
17		32
18		26
19		14
20		37
21		13
22		24
23		19
24		8
25		17
26		13
27		14
28		12
29		25
30		4
31		5
32		2
33		5
34		23
35		16
36		8
37		10
38		5
39		24
40		5
41		35
42		16
43		9
44		6
45		16
46		18
47		3
48		21
49		13
50		49
Total

15: Democratic Political Turning Point

Position! scope="col"

Candidate	Votes	Result
1		5,679
2		135
3		237
4		78
5		39
6		47
7		55
8		65
9		76
10		57
11		29
12		27
13		52
14		24
15		14
16		32
17		31
18		8
19		20
20		32
21		42
22		15
23		10
24		20
25		16
26		39
27		13
28		17
29		24
30		11
31		11
32		13
33		32
34		11
35		23
36		19
37		13
38		16
39		34
40		17
41		58
42		18
43		19
44		9
45		12
46		12
47		18
48		8
49		24
50		52
Total

16: 50PLUS

Position! scope="col"

Candidate	Votes	Result
1		148,273	Elected
2		3,511	Elected
3		7,123	Replacement
4		816
5		845
6		2,654
7		1,941
8		997
9		722
10		511
11		705
12		976
13		1,097
14		477
15		715
16		804
17		453
18		288
19		188
20		319
21		131
22		292
23		107
24		350
25		79
26		577
27		373
28		111
29		117
30		185
31		180
32		118
33		446
34		1,150
Total

17: Liberal Democratic Party

Position! scope="col"

Candidate	Votes	Result
1		1,286
2		268
3		67
4		33
5		35
6		68
7		16
8		12
9		22
10		23
11		16
12		16
13		19
14		9
15		8
16		13
17		9
18		22
19		11
20		11
21		8
22		14
23		8
24		10
25		13
26		7
27		17
28		9
29		4
30		5
31		6
32		6
33		55
Total

18: Anti Europe Party

Position! scope="col"

Candidate	Votes	Result
1		1,287
2-8	Regional candidates
Total

Regional candidates

Candidate! scope="col" rowspan="2"

Votes	Result	Position
scope="col"
	78		4	4
	205		5	5
	285		2	2
	33				5
	4		7		4
	96		3	3	2
	4		6
	0				3
	21		8

19: SOPN

Position! scope="col"

Candidate	Votes	Result
1		9,636
2		736
3		148
4		62
5		93
6		67
7		90
8		90
9		36
10		48
11		82
12		53
13		16
14		37
15		23
16		23
17		28
18		24
19		83
20		33
21		46
22		53
23		64
24		52
25		24
26		42
27		20
28		36
29		19
30		27
31		10
32		12
33		22
34		12
35		14
36		30
37		18
38		251
39		40
40-50	Regional candidates
Total

Regional candidates

Candidate! scope="col" rowspan="2"

Votes	Result	Position
scope="col"
	25						49	49
	26									40
	19		40	40	40	40	40	40	40
	6								48
	3					46
	37		42	42	42		42
	17							42
	3								42
	25		50
	6		45	45	45				45
	0			49
	10				49					49
	12		43	43	43	43	43
	37			47		45	46
	7		46
	3								46	46
	97					50	50	50	50
	12		47
	131		41	41	41	41	41	41	41
	12		48	48	48	48		48
	42									41
	7									45
	37						48	47
	22				46					50
	4		49
	16				50					48
	17				47					47
	15						47	46
	15							43
	14								49
	13		44	46		42
	39			50		47
	13			44	44	44	44	44	44	44
	10						45	45
	8					49
	18								47	43
	4								43	42

20: Party of the Future

Position! scope="col"

Candidate	Votes	Result
1		5,453
2		409
3		464
4		100
5		123
6		101
7		151
8		141
9		48
10		47
11		90
12		103
13		73
14		42
15-24	Regional candidates
Total

Regional candidates

Candidate! scope="col" rowspan="2"

Votes	Result	Position
1		2
	10			15
	102		20	21
	46		19	20
	27		18	19
	63		21	22
	365		23	24
	88		22	23
	44		16	17
	58		17	18
	46		15	16

21: NXD

Position! scope="col"

Candidate	Votes	Result
1		44
2		4
3		6
4		0
5		8
Total

See also

• List of members of the House of Representatives of the Netherlands, 2012–2017

Source

• Web site: Uitslag Tweede Kamerverkiezing 2012. nl. 17 September 2012. Kiesraad. 13 August 2024.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Mr. C.G. (Kees) van der Staaij. 19 August 2024. Parlement.com. nl.
2. Web site: Prof.Dr. E. (Elbert) Dijkgraaf. 19 August 2024. Parlement.com. nl.
3. Web site: Dr. R. (Roelof) Bisschop. 19 August 2024. Parlement.com. nl.