1946 Elizean general election

1946 Elizean general election

March 5, 1946 (1946-03-05)
All 360 seats to the Parliament 181 seats needed for a majority
Opinion polls
Turnout	90.4%
First party Second party Third party   Leader Charles Ooijth Jozef Krul Pieter Peterson Party Union of Rightists Socialist UD Leader's seat Capital District Capital District Kraailande Last election 109 seats, 28.8% 27 seats, 7.8% 93 seats, 25.4% Seats won 108 71 66 Seat change 1 44 27 Percentage 28.6% 19.1% 19.0% Swing 0.2 11.3 6.4   Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party   Leader Klaas Huis Dolf Tusali Henk Hofland Party Liberal Union Nationalist Union Communist Party Elizea Leader's seat Konijnenveld Capital District Zoutevelde Last election 48 seats, 13.8% 37 seats, 10.7% 15 seats, 4.4% Seats won 45 16 16 Seat change 3 21 1 Percentage 13.0% 4.7 4.6 Swing 0.8 6.0 0.2   Seventh party Eighth party Ninth party   Leader Charlie Van der Zee Joost Langreep Doede Istra Party Free-thinking Radicals DC Frisian Voters Leader's seat Capital District Saint Anna Boksum-Litersum Last election 17 seats, 4.8% did not exist did not exist Seats won 15 14 9 Seat change 2 N/A N/A Percentage 4.3 4.3% 2.6% Swing 0.5 N/A N/A

The Socialist Party made massive gains. The social liberal Democratic Union and the far-right Nationalist Union both lost a lot of seats. Two new parties entered the parliament the Christian Democracy and the Frisian Voters.