1979 European Parliament election in the Netherlands

An election for Members of the European Parliament representing Netherlands constituency for the 1979–1984 term of the European Parliament was held on 7 June 1979. It was part of the wider 1979 European election.

Electorate system
The ten seats were elected using proportional representation, with seats allocated using the D'Hondt method.

Voting rights were given to all citizens who were allowed to vote in Dutch parliament elections, Dutch citizens resident in other member states and did not already have voting rights for the Dutch Parliament elections and citizens of other member states who lived in the Netherlands, provided their home country granted similar rights.

Campaign
The Labour Party and Political Party of Radicals formed an electoral alliance.

Dutch political parties
Four parties were able to win seats: the conservative liberal VVD, the progressive liberal D66, the Christian-democratic CDA and the social-democratic Labour Party. Five other nationally represented parties compete but are unable to win seats. 58.12% of the Dutch population turned out on election day.

European groups
!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |Seats 1979
 * style="text-align:center;" colspan="11" |
 * style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:center;vertical-align:top;" colspan="3"|European group
 * style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:center;vertical-align:top;" colspan="3"|European group
 * style="text-align:left;" | European People's Party
 * style="text-align:left;" | EPP
 * style="text-align:right;" | 10
 * style="text-align:left;" | Confederation of Socialist Parties
 * style="text-align:left;" | SOC
 * style="text-align:right;" | 9
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 * style="text-align:left;" | European Liberal Democrats
 * style="text-align:left;" | LD
 * style="text-align:right;" | 4
 * style="text-align:left;" | Non-Inscrits
 * style="text-align:left;" | NI
 * style="text-align:right;" | 2
 * width="350" style="text-align:right;background-color:#E9E9E9" colspan="3"|
 * width="30" style="text-align:right;background-color:#E9E9E9"|25
 * }
 * style="text-align:left;" | Non-Inscrits
 * style="text-align:left;" | NI
 * style="text-align:right;" | 2
 * 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
 * }

Elected members
Christian Democratic Appeal
 * 1) Bouke Beumer (top candidate)
 * 2) Elise Boot
 * 3) Frans van der Gun
 * 4) Jim Janssen van Raaij
 * 5) Sjouke Jonker
 * 6) Hanja Maij-Weggen
 * 7) Harrij Notenboom
 * 8) Jean Penders
 * 9) Teun Tolman
 * 10) Wim Vergeer

Labour Party
 * 1) Wim Albers
 * 2) Bob Cohen
 * 3) Piet Dankert
 * 4) Annie Krouwel-Vlam
 * 5) Johan van Minnen
 * 6) Hemmo Muntingh
 * 7) Anne Vondeling (top candidate)
 * 8) Eisso Woltjer
 * 9) Ien van den Heuvel-de Blank

People's Party for Freedom and Democracy
 * 1) Cees Berkhouwer (top candidate)
 * 2) Aart Geurtsen
 * 3) Hendrik Jan Louwes
 * 4) Hans Nord

Democrats 66
 * 1) Suzanne Dekker
 * 2) Aar de Goede (top candidate)

MEPs period 1979–1984
Below is a complete list of members of the European Parliament for the period 1979–1984 as a result of this election.