List of members of the European Parliament for the Netherlands, 2009–2014

Below is a list of the 25 members of the European Parliament for the Netherlands in the 2009 to 2014 session. One person from Party for Freedom entered the Parliament in December 2011, bringing the number of MEPs to 26.

Further information: 2009 European Parliament election

Further information: 2009 European Parliament election in the Netherlands

Further information: List of members of the European Parliament, 2009–2014

Elections, candidates and members of the European Parliament for the Netherlands
1952–1958	ECSC delegation
1958–1979	EP delegation
1979–1984	1st election, candidates and members
1984–1989	2nd election, candidates and members
1989–1994	3rd election, candidates and members
1994–1999	4th election, candidates and members
1999–2004	5th election, candidates and members
2004–2009	6th election, candidates and members
2009–2014	7th election, candidates and members
2014–2019	8th election, candidates and members
2019–2024	9th election, candidates and members

Party representation

2009 election

National party	EP Group	Seats [1]	±
Christian Democratic Appeal	EPP	5 / 25	2
Party for Freedom	NI	4 / 25	4
Labour Party	S&D	3 / 25	4
People's Party for Freedom and Democracy	ALDE	3 / 25	1
Democrats 66	ALDE	3 / 25	2
GreenLeft	G–EFA	3 / 25	1
Socialist Party	EUL–NGL	2 / 25	0
ChristianUnion–Reformed Political Party	Various	2 / 25	0

2011

After the ratification of the Lisbon Treaty by all member states, the Netherlands got 1 extra seat in parliament.
This extra seat was treated as a remainder seat of the 2009 election.

National party	EP Group	Seats	±
Christian Democratic Appeal	EPP	5 / 26	0
Party for Freedom	NI	5 / 26	1
Labour Party	S&D	3 / 26	0
People's Party for Freedom and Democracy	ALDE	3 / 26	0
Democrats 66	ALDE	3 / 26	0
GreenLeft	G–EFA	3 / 26	0
Socialist Party	EUL–NGL	2 / 26	0
ChristianUnion–Reformed Political Party	Various	2 / 26	0

Mutations

2009

• 4 June: Election for the European Parliament in the Netherlands.
• 14 June: The election committee elects Laurence Stassen for the empty seat of Geert Wilders in the European Parliament, because Geert Wilders did not accept the seat.
• 14 July: Beginning of the 7th European Parliament session. (2009–2014)

2010

• 1 June: Kartika Liotard leaves the SP after a conflict with Dennis de Jong and continues as an independent. She does remain part of the European United Left–Nordic Green Left group.
• 17 June: Louis Bontes (PVV) leaves the European Parliament, taking his seat in the Dutch Parliament after the 2010 Dutch general election.
• 17 June: Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert (VVD) leaves the European Parliament, taking her seat in the Dutch Parliament after the 2010 Dutch general election.
• 22 June: Jan Mulder (VVD) is installed in the European Parliament as a replacement for Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert.
• 22 June: Lucas Hartong (PVV) is installed in the European Parliament as a replacement for Louis Bontes.

2011

• 31 August: Daniël van der Stoep (PVV) leaves the European Parliament.
• 8 September: Auke Zijlstra (PVV) is installed in the European Parliament as a replacement for Daniël van der Stoep.
• 15 December: The Netherlands gets one extra seat after the Lisbon Treaty was ratified by all EU member states.
• 15 December: The Party for Freedom is awarded one extra seat, based on the 2009 European Election. Daniël van der Stoep (PVV) is installed in the European Parliament.
• 18 December: The Party for Freedom delegation refuses to accept Daniël van der Stoep. Daniël van der Stoep continues as an independent

2012

• 20 September: Barry Madlener (PVV) leaves the European Parliament, taking his seat in the Dutch Parliament after the 2012 Dutch general election.
• 27 September: Patricia van der Kammen (PVV) is installed in the European Parliament as a replacement for Barry Madlener.

2013

• 17 October: Toine Manders leaves the VVD and continues as an independent. He does remain part of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe group.

2014

• 21 March: Laurence Stassen leaves the PVV and continues as an independent.

List

By name

 MEPs for the Netherlands elected to the 7th European Parliament session

2009–2014
Name	Sex	National party	EP Group	Period	Preference vote
Hans van Baalen	Male	People's Party for Freedom and Democracy	ALDE	14 July 2009 – 2 July 2019[2]	367,796
Bas Belder	Male	Reformed Political Party	EFD	20 July 1999 – 2 July 2019[3]	53,450
Thijs Berman	Male	Labour Party	S&D	20 July 2004 – 1 July 2014[4]	372,060
Louis Bontes[5]	Male	Party for Freedom	NI	14 July 2009 – 17 June 2010[6]	6,751
Emine Bozkurt	Female	Labour Party	S&D	20 July 2004 – 1 July 2014[7]	66,385
Wim van de Camp	Male	Christian Democratic Appeal	EPP	14 July 2009 – 2 July 2019[8]	579,775
Marije Cornelissen	Female	GreenLeft	G–EFA	14 July 2009 – 1 July 2014[9]	14,486
Peter van Dalen	Male	Christian Union	ECR	14 July 2009 – Present[10]	209,947
Bas Eickhout	Male	GreenLeft	G–EFA	14 July 2009 – Present[11]	13,782
Gerben-Jan Gerbrandy	Male	Democrats 66	ALDE	14 July 2009 – 2 July 2019[12]	18,107
Lucas Hartong	Male	Party for Freedom	NI	22 June 2010 – 1 July 2014[13]	2,571
Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert[14]	Female	People's Party for Freedom and Democracy	ALDE	20 July 2004 – 17 June 2010[15]	52,184
Dennis de Jong	Male	Socialist Party	EUL–NGL	14 July 2009 – 2 July 2019[16]	194,359
Patricia van der Kammen	Female	Party for Freedom	NI	27 September 2012 – 1 July 2014[17]	12,409
Esther de Lange	Female	Christian Democratic Appeal	EPP	12 April 2007 – Present[18]	43,406
Kartika Liotard [19]	Female	Socialist Party (2009–2010) /      Independent	EUL–NGL	20 July 2004 – 1 July 2014[20]	32,426
Barry Madlener[21]	Male	Party for Freedom	NI	14 July 2009 – 20 September 2012[22]	372,060
Toine Manders[23]	Male	People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (2009–2013) /      Independent	ALDE	20 July 1999 – 1 July 2014 2 July 2019 – Present[24]	34,973
Judith Merkies	Female	Labour Party	S&D	14 July 2009 – 1 July 2014[25]	18,553
Jan Mulder	Male	People's Party for Freedom and Democracy	ALDE	19 July 1994 – 14 July 2009 22 June 2010 – 1 July 2014[26]	12,884
Lambert van Nistelrooij	Male	Christian Democratic Appeal	EPP	20 July 2004 – 2 July 2019[27]	41,846
Ria Oomen-Ruijten	Female	Christian Democratic Appeal	EPP	25 July 1989 – 1 July 2014[28]	70,388
Judith Sargentini	Female	GreenLeft	G–EFA	14 July 2009 – 2 July 2019[29]	321,744
Marietje Schaake	Female	Democrats 66	ALDE	14 July 2009 – 2 July 2019[30]	18,662
Laurence Stassen[31][32]	Female	Party for Freedom (2009–2014) /      Independent	NI	14 July 2009 – 1 July 2014[33]	17,880
Daniël van der Stoep[34]	Male	Party for Freedom (2009–2011) /      Independent	NI	14 July 2009 – 1 September 2011 15 December 2011 – 1 July 2014[35]	5,650
Sophie in 't Veld	Female	Democrats 66	ALDE	20 July 2004 – Present[36]	433,957
Corien Wortmann-Kool	Female	Christian Democratic Appeal	EPP	20 July 2004 – 1 July 2014[37]	48,270
Auke Zijlstra	Male	Party for Freedom	NI	13 September 2011 – 1 July 2014 7 September 2015 – 2 July 2019[38]	3,617
Source:[39]

By party

On the Christian Democratic Appeal list: (EPP Group) See also: List of Christian Democratic Appeal Members of the European Parliament See also: Party lists in the 2009 European Parliament election in the Netherlands § CDA - European People's Party Esther de Lange Ria Oomen-Ruijten Wim van de Camp Lambert van Nistelrooij Corien Wortmann-Kool On the Party for Freedom list: (NI) See also: List of Party for Freedom Members of the European Parliament See also: Party lists in the 2009 European Parliament election in the Netherlands § PVV (Party for Freedom) Louis Bontes (replaced by Lucas Hartong) Barry Madlener (replaced by Patricia van der Kammen) Daniël van der Stoep (replaced by Auke Zijlstra) Laurence Stassen After Brexit the Netherlands got 1 extra seat and it went to Party for Freedom| Daniël van der Stoep On the Labour Party list: (S&D) See also: List of Dutch Labour Party Members of the European Parliament See also: Party lists in the 2009 European Parliament election in the Netherlands § P.v.d.A./European Social Democrats Thijs Berman Emine Bozkurt Judith Merkies On the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy list: (ALDE) See also: List of People's Party for Freedom and Democracy Members of the European Parliament See also: Party lists in the 2009 European Parliament election in the Netherlands § VVD - European Liberal-Democrats Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert (replaced by Jan Mulder) Toine Manders Hans van Baalen

On the Democrats 66 list: (ALDE) See also: List of Democrats 66 Members of the European Parliament See also: Party lists in the 2009 European Parliament election in the Netherlands § Democrats 66 (D66) Gerben-Jan Gerbrandy Sophie in 't Veld Marietje Schaake On the GreenLeft list: (Greens-EFA) See also: Party lists in the 2009 European Parliament election in the Netherlands § GreenLeft Marije Cornelissen Bas Eickhout Judith Sargentini On the Socialist Party list: (EUL/NGL) See also: List of Socialist Party (Netherlands) Members of the European Parliament See also: Party lists in the 2009 European Parliament election in the Netherlands § SP (Socialist Party) Dennis de Jong Kartika Liotard On the ChristianUnion – Reformed Political Party list: (ECR and EFD) See also: List of Christian Union – Reformed Political Party Members of the European Parliament See also: Party lists in the 2009 European Parliament election in the Netherlands § Christian Union-SGP Bas Belder (Reformed Political Party is in EFD) Peter van Dalen (Christian Union is in ECR) Independent: (left their party delegation at some point during this European 2009–2014 session.) Kartika Liotard Toine Manders Laurence Stassen Daniël van der Stoep

References

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5. Resigned in 2010, became a member of the Dutch Parliament (House of Representatives) after the 2010 election. Replaced by Lucas Hartong on 22 June 2010.
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14. Resigned in 2010, became a member of the Dutch Parliament (House of Representatives) after the 2010 election. Replaced by Jan Mulder on 22 June 2010.
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19. Withdrew her membership of the Socialist Party on 1 June 2010 after internal conflicts in the Socialist Party. Sits as an independent while still part of the EUL-NGL.
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21. Resigned in 2012, became a member of the Dutch Parliament (House of Representatives) after the 2012 election. Replaced by Patricia van der Kammen on 27 September 2012.
22. "Parlement.com: B. (Barry) Madlener" (in Dutch). Parlement.com. Retrieved 19 June 2019.
23. Withdrew his membership of the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy on 17 October 2013 to run as party leader of 50PLUS in the 2014 European Parliament election. Sits as an independent, while still part of the ALDE.
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27. "Parlement.com: Drs. L.J.J. (Lambert) van Nistelrooij" (in Dutch). Retrieved 19 June 2019.
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31. Geert Wilders, as "party list pusher" was chosen on the number of preferences votes, however he declined to join the European Parliament. Stassen took up his seat.
32. Withdrew her membership of the Party for Freedom on 21 March 2014 after allegedly discriminatory remarks by party leader Wilders. Sits as an independent.
33. "Parlement.com: L.J.A.J. (Laurence) Stassen" (in Dutch). Retrieved 19 June 2019.
34. Resigned in 2011 because he caused a car crash while drunk driving. Replaced by Auke Zijlstra on 13 September 2011. Van der Stoep returned to the Parliament in December 2011 because of seat increases provided for by the Treaty of Lisbon. As the first candidate on the Party for Freedom election list who did not have a seat in the European Parliament he was allowed to return to the Parliament. However, the Party for Freedom did not allow him to rejoin their delegation, and he currently sits as an independent.
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36. "Parlement.com: Drs. S.H. (Sophie) in 't Veld" (in Dutch). Retrieved 19 June 2019.
37. "Parlement.com: Drs. C.M. (Corien) Wortmann-Kool" (in Dutch). Retrieved 19 June 2019.
38. "Parlement.com: Drs. A.J. (Auke) Zijlstra" (in Dutch). Retrieved 19 June 2019.
39. "Parlement.com: Nederlandse leden Europees Parlement" (in Dutch). Retrieved 19 June 2019.