A general election of the House of Representatives of the Dutch Parliament

States-General of the Netherlands

The States-General of the Netherlands is the bicameral legislature of the Netherlands, consisting of the Senate and the House of Representatives. The parliament meets in at the Binnenhof in The Hague. The archaic Dutch word "staten" originally related to the feudal classes in which medieval...

 was held in the Netherlands

Netherlands

The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...

in 1917.

In this election, the parties agreed to hold elections in which the incumbent members of parliament were the only candidates in order to allow a change in the constitution to introduce universal male suffrage and proportional representation.

National summary

Party	%	Seats
Anti-Revolutionaire Partij	.	11
Sociaal Democratische Arbeiders Partij	.	15
Liberale Unie	.	22
Roomsch-Katholieke Bond van Kiesverenigingen	.	25
Christelijk-Historische Unie	.	10
Vrijzinnig Democratische Bond	.	5
Bond van Vrije Liberalen	.	10
Total	-	100

Parties

• Anti Revolutionary Party (Anti-Revolutionaire Partij)
• Christian Historical Union (Christelijke-Historische Unie)
• Freethinking Democratic League (Vrijzinnig Democratische Bond)
• League of Free Liberals (Bond van Vrije Liberalen)
• Liberal Union (Liberale Unie)
• Roman Catholic League of Electoral Associations (Roomsch-Katholieke Bond van Kiesverenigingen)
• Social Democratic Workers' Party (Sociaal-Democratische Arbeiderspartij)