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That's not quite correct. It happened in 1977 and in 1982.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_general_election,_1977

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_general_election,_1982

Excellent information, thank you. So it will be the coalition rather than the largest party. I was hoping for that but could not easily find a source to make that un-ambiguous, precedent is better than anything else.

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