1888 Dutch general election

1888 Dutch general election
Netherlands
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All 100 seats in the House of Representatives
51 seats needed for a majority
Party Leader Vote % Seats +/–
LU Hendrik Goeman Borgesius 40.72 45 −3
ARP Abraham Kuyper 30.43 27 +8
Catholic 21.55 26 +7
SDB Ferdinand Domela Nieuwenhuis 0.68 1 +1
Conservative Rutger Jan Schimmelpenninck 1 +1
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
Cabinet before Cabinet after
Jan Heemskerk cabinet
Conservative–Liberal		 Mackay cabinet
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Azure, billetty Or a lion with a coronet Or armed and langued Gules holding in his dexter paw a sword Argent hilted Or and in the sinister paw seven arrows Argent pointed and bound together Or. [The seven arrows stand for the seven provinces of the Union of Utrecht.] The shield is crowned with the (Dutch) royal crown and supported by two lions Or armed and langued gules. They stand on a scroll Azure with the text (Or) "Je Maintiendrai" (French for "I will maintain".)
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General elections were held in the Netherlands on 6 March 1888,[1] with a second round in 25 constituencies on 20 March.[2] The Liberal Union emerged as the largest party, winning 46 of the 100 seats in the House of Representatives.[3]

  1. ^ Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p1395 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7
  2. ^ Verkiezingen Huygens Instituut
  3. ^ Nohlen & Stöver, p1412