1917 Dutch General Election
22 June 1917 · Pacification and the pillarised nation · 100 seats, 51 for a majority
General elections were held in the Netherlands on 15 June 1917 to elect members of the House of Representatives of the Dutch Parliament. The elections were held following the Pacification of 1917, an agreement between the seven parties with seats in parliament to allow a change in the constitution to introduce universal manhood suffrage and proportional representation.
Prime Minister before
—
Prime Minister (continued)
Pieter Cort van der Linden
Independent
Largest force
AB
25 of 100 seats
Turnout
38.0%
The result
| Share of the House of Representatives | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AB | Willem Hubert Nolens | 25 | 0 | — | — | — | |
| LU | Theo de Meester | 21 | +1 | — | — | — | |
| SDAP | Pieter Jelles Troelstra | 15 | -3 | — | — | — | |
| ARP | Abraham Kuyper | 11 | 0 | — | — | — | |
| BVL | Meinard Tydeman | 10 | 0 | — | — | — | |
| CHU | Alexander de Savornin Lohman | 9 | +1 | — | — | — | |
| VDB | Henri Marchant | 8 | +1 | — | — | — | |
| Ind CHU | C. J. A. Bichon van Ijsselmonde | 1 | 0 | — | — | — |