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
| Share of the House of Representatives | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AB | Willem Hubert Nolens | 30 | +5 | — | 30.0% | — | |
| SDAP | Pieter Jelles Troelstra | 22 | +7 | — | 22.0% | — | |
| ARP | Abraham Kuyper | 13 | +2 | — | 13.4% | — | |
| CHU | Alexander de Savornin Lohman | 7 | -2 | — | 6.5% | — | |
| LU | Eduard Ellis van Raalte | 6 | -15 | — | 6.2% | — | |
| VDB | Henri Marchant | 5 | -3 | — | 5.3% | — | |
| BVL | Alibert Cornelis Visser van IJzendoorn | 4 | -6 | — | 3.8% | — | |
| EB | Willem Treub | 3 | — | — | 3.1% | — | |
| SDP | David Wijnkoop | 2 | +2 | — | 2.3% | — | |
| MP | Abraham Staalman | 1 | — | — | 0.9% | — | |
| CDP | Andries Staalman | 1 | +1 | — | 0.8% | — | |
| PB | Frederik Bos | 1 | — | — | 0.7% | — | |
| SP | Harm Kolthek | 1 | — | — | 0.7% | — | |
| BCS | Willy Kruyt | 1 | — | — | 0.6% | — | |
| CSP | Adolf Robbert van de Laar | 1 | — | — | 0.6% | — | |
| NP | Henri ter Hall | 1 | — | — | 0.5% | — | |
| VDW | Willem Wijk | 1 | — | — | 0.5% | — |