1954 Elizean general election

1954 Elizean general election

March 5, 1954 (1954-03-05)
All 360 seats to the Parliament 181 seats needed for a majority
Opinion polls
Turnout	85.86% 1.3
First party Second party Third party   Leader Charles Ooijth Jozef Krul Klaas Huis Party Union of Rightists Socialist Liberal Union Leader's seat Capital District Capital District Konijnenveld Last election 113 seats, 29.22% 72 seats, 19.46% 46 seats, 13.26% Seats won 122 28.50% 45 Seat change 9 32 1 Percentage 29.29% 104 13.11% Swing 0.07 9.04 0.15   Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party   Leader Pieter Peterson Henk Hofland Charlie Van der Zee Party UD Communist Party Elizea Free-thinking Radicals Leader's seat Kraailande Zoutevelde Capital District Last election 67 seats, 19.41% 16 seats, 4.63% 15 seats, 4.36% Seats won 38 16 15 Seat change 29 Percentage 11.03% 4.61 4.28% Swing 8.38 0.02 0.08   Seventh party Eighth party Ninth party   Leader Joost Langreep Dolf Tusali Jopie Hestra Party DC Nationalist Union Frisian Democratic Union Leader's seat Sankto Anna Capital District Boksum-Litersum Last election 14 seats, 4.09% 11 seats, 3.25% 3 seats, 0.88% Seats won 14 0 5 Seat change 11 2 Percentage 4.01 2.88 1.41% Swing 0.08 0.37 0.53
Largest political party by municipality: ■ Union of Rightists ■ Socialist Party ■ Liberal Union ■ Democratic Union ■ Communist Party ■ Radicals ■ Christian Democracy ■ Frisian Democrats

Results

Party		Votes	%	Seats	+/–
	Union of Rightists	2,924,002	29.29	122	+9
	Socialist Party	2,845,023	28.50	104	+32
	Liberal Union	1,308,567	13.11	45	-1
	Democratic Union	1,100,897	11.03	38	-29
	Communist Party	460,298	4.61	16	–
	Free-thinking Radicals	427,005	4.28	15	–
	Christian Democracy	400,029	4.01	14	–
	Nationalist Union	287,212	2.88	0	-11
	Frisian Democratic Union	141,034	1.41	5	+2
	Frisian Voters' Association	27,876	0.28	1	-2
	others	61,022	0.61	0	–
Total		9,982,965	100.00	360	0
Valid votes		9,982,965	99.92
Invalid/blank votes		8,257	0.08
Total votes		9,991,222	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		11,637,023	85.86

Aftermatch

The centrist coalition of the Union of Rightists, Democratic Union and Frisian Voters' Association lost its majority in the Parliament. The Union of Rightists formed a centre-right coalition with the Liberal Union and the Christian Democracy. The centre-right coalition had the smallest majority in parliament in the political history of Elizea.