1905 Dutch general election

1905 Dutch general election
Netherlands
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All 100 seats in the House of Representatives
51 seats needed for a majority
Party Leader % Seats +/–
ARP Abraham Kuyper 24.66 15 −7
LU Hendrik Goeman Borgesius 20.01 25 +7
AB Maximilien Kolkman 13.13 25 0
SDAP Pieter Jelles Troelstra 11.24 7 0
CHP Alexander de Savornin Lohman 10.76 8 −2
VDB Hendrik Lodewijk Drucker 8.84 11 +2
VL Meinard Tydeman [nl] 8.16 9 +1
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
Cabinet before Cabinet after
Kuyper cabinet
Coalition		 De Meester 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 16 June 1905,[1] with a second round in some constituencies on 28 June.[2] The Liberal Union and General League of Roman Catholic Caucuses emerged as the joint-largest parties, both winning 25 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. ^ Daniele Caramani (2017). Elections in Western Europe 1815-1996. Springer. p. 704. ISBN 978-1-349-65508-3.