1888 Dutch General Election
The first confessional cabinet20 March 1888 · The census-suffrage kingdom · 100 seats, 51 for a majority
This was the first election held after the constitutional revision of 1887, achieved by Minister of the Interior Jan Heemskerk, which had several effects on the parliamentary system. Firstly, this revision fixed the number of seats in the House of Representatives at 100.
Prime Minister before
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Prime Minister (continued)
Aeneas Mackay
ARP
Largest force
LU
45 of 100 seats
Turnout
81.4%
The result
| Share of the House of Representatives | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LU | Hendrik Goeman Borgesius | 45 | -3 | — | 40.7% | — | |
| ARP | Abraham Kuyper | 27 | +8 | — | 30.4% | — | |
| Catholic | — | 26 | +7 | — | 21.6% | — | |
| SDB | Ferdinand Domela Nieuwenhuis | 1 | +1 | — | 0.7% | — | |
| Conservative | Rutger Jan Schimmelpenninck van Nijenhuis | 1 | +1 | — | — | — |