Empirical evidence of paradoxes of voting in Dutch elections

In this paper we analyze four national elections held in 1982, 1986, 1989 a nd 1994 in the Netherlands on the occurrence of the Condorcet paradox. In a ddition, we investigate these elections on the occurrence of three so-calle d majority-plurality paradoxes. The first paradox states that a party havin g a majority over another party may receive less seats. The second states t hat a Condorcet winner may not receive the largest number of seats and even may not receive a seat at all. The third says that the majority relation m ay be the reverse of the ranking of parties in terms of numbers of seats.