1891 Dutch general election

1891 Dutch general election
Netherlands
← 1888 9 June 1891 (first round)
23 June 1891 (second round)		 1894 →
All 100 seats in the House of Representatives
51 seats needed for a majority
Party Leader Seats +/–
LU Hendrik Goeman Borgesius 54 +9
ARP Abraham Kuyper 20 −7
Catholic 25 −1
Radicals Boelo Luitjen Tijdens [nl] 1 +1
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
Colours denote the winning party, as shown in the main table of results.
Cabinet before Cabinet after
Mackay cabinet
Coalition		 Van Tienhoven cabinet
Liberal
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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 9 June 1891,[1] with a second round in 25 constituencies on 23 June.[2] The Liberal Union emerged as the largest party, winning 54 of the 100 seats in the House of Representatives.

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