An election of Members of the European Parliament representing Netherlands constituency for the 1999–2004 term of the European Parliament was held on 10 June 1999. It was part of the wider 1999 European election. Eleven parties competed in a D'Hondt type election for 31 seats. Background Combined lists 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: SGP, RPF and GPV Electoral alliances No lists formed an electoral alliance. Numbering of the candidates list Results Voter turnout was a record low for a national election of just 30.02%. In the election the GreenLeft performed particularly well quadrupling their seats from one to four. The Socialist Party won its first seat. These gains were made at the cost of the Christian Democratic Appeal, Democrats 66 and the PvdA, which lost one, two and two seats respectively. Seat assignment Electoral quota The electoral quota is the number of votes needed for one seat. It is the total valid number of votes divided by the number of seats. For this election it was 3,544,408 valid votes, divided by 31 seats. The electoral quota was established as: 114,335 Assigning full seats Full seats are assigned by number of votes divided by the electoral quota. Electoral alliances are marked as a letter, instead of a number. Any seats left over are not yet assigned to a specific party. Remainder seats The remaining, or left over, seats are awarded sequentially to the lists with the highest average number of votes per seat. Only lists that reached the electoral quota are eligible. CDA – European People's Party is awarded 1 seat. GreenLeft is awarded 1 seat. SGP, GPV and RPF is awarded 1 seat. D66 is awarded 1 seat. European groups The EPP-ED group becomes the biggest group this election despite losing seat. This because the ELDR group in the Netherlands lost 2 seats from the Democrats 66. The EG-EFA group makes a big gain in seat, thanks to the win of GreenLeft. The Socialist Party won EUL-NGL its first seat in the Netherlands. | 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 1994 !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |Seats 1999 !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |Change |- | | style="text-align:left;" | European People's Party–European Democrats | style="text-align:left;" | EPP-ED | style="text-align:right;" | 10 | style="text-align:right;" | 9 | style="text-align:right;" | 1 |- | style="background-color:gold;"