Bijani House of Representatives election, 1965

The Bijani House of Representatives election of 1965 was held on Saturday, March 7, 1965, to elect the 173 members of the 5th Bijani House of Representatives. The incumbent Bijani National Party government, which had ruled on its own from 1945 to 1961, and as a minority government from 1961 to 1965, sought a fifth term in office against a centre-left alliance consisting of the Social Democratic Party and the Alliance of Dutch Voters, and a centre-right alliance consisting of the Liberal Democratic Party, the Country Party and the Christian Democratic Party. Other parties that contested the election only in certain counties were the New Bijan Party, the Communist Party, the Pensioners Party, the New Hospitals Party, the Students Party and Bijani Future.

This was the first election to take place following the amendments to the House of Representatives (Elections) Act, which increased the size of the House from 150 to 173 members. The 23 new leveling seats were a mechanism to ensure the overall composition of parties in the House better reflected each party's share of the national vote. Prior to 1965, Bijan's constituency-based proportional system often yielded unexpected and counterintuitive results, such as a party experiencing a decrease in overall support nationwide, yet ganing additional seats. The system of leveling seats was implemented to counter the irregularities in county voting patterns.