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

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Prime Minister (continued)

Pieter Cort van der Linden

Independent

Largest force

AB

25 of 100 seats

Turnout

38.0%

The result

AB
Willem Hubert Nolens · 0 seats
25
seats
LU
Theo de Meester · +1 seats
21
seats
SDAP
Pieter Jelles Troelstra · -3 seats
15
seats
ARP
Abraham Kuyper · 0 seats
11
seats
BVL
Meinard Tydeman · 0 seats
10
seats
CHU
Alexander de Savornin Lohman · +1 seats
9
seats
VDB
Henri Marchant · +1 seats
8
seats
Ind CHU
C. J. A. Bichon van Ijsselmonde · 0 seats
1
seats