1918 Dutch General Election
The first PR election3 July 1918 · Pacification and the pillarised nation · 100 seats, 51 for a majority
General elections were held in the Netherlands on 3 July 1918. They were the first elections held after a series of reforms that introduced universal male suffrage and pure proportional representation, replacing the previous two-round system in single member constituencies.
Prime Minister before
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Prime Minister (continued)
Charles Ruijs de Beerenbrouck
RKSP
Largest force
AB
30 of 100 seats
Turnout
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The result
AB
Willem Hubert Nolens · 30.0% of votes · +5 seats
30
seats
SDAP
Pieter Jelles Troelstra · 22.0% of votes · +7 seats
22
seats
ARP
Abraham Kuyper · 13.4% of votes · +2 seats
13
seats
CHU
Alexander de Savornin Lohman · 6.5% of votes · -2 seats
7
seats
LU
Eduard Ellis van Raalte · 6.2% of votes · -15 seats
6
seats
VDB
Henri Marchant · 5.3% of votes · -3 seats
5
seats
BVL
Alibert Cornelis Visser van IJzendoorn · 3.8% of votes · -6 seats
4
seats
EB
Willem Treub · 3.1% of votes
3
seats
SDP
David Wijnkoop · 2.3% of votes · +2 seats
2
seats
MP
Abraham Staalman · 0.9% of votes
1
seats
CDP
Andries Staalman · 0.8% of votes · +1 seats
1
seats
PB
Frederik Bos · 0.7% of votes
1
seats