List of political parties in the Netherlands
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This article lists political parties in the Netherlands. The country has a multi-party system with numerous political parties, and any one party has little chance of gaining power alone; parties work with each other to form coalition governments.
The lower house of the legislature, the House of Representatives, is elected by a national party-list system of proportional representation. There is a legal threshold of 1/150 for getting a seat, so a party can win a seat only with at least two-thirds percent (0,67%) of the national vote, roughly one seat for every 67,000 votes.
The first national political party was the Anti-Revolutionary Party (ARP), founded in 1879.<ref name="ARP 2021">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
No party has come close to winning a majority of seats since the introduction of proportional representation in 1918.<ref>Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p1412 Template:ISBN</ref> All governments since then have been coalitions between two or more parties. However, there is a broad consensus on the basic principles of the political system, with all parties having to adjust their goals to some extent in order to have a realistic chance at being part of the government.
National political parties
Parties represented in the States General and/or European Parliament
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Parties without representation in the States General and/or European Parliament
Regional and local political parties
European Netherlands
Regional parties
Local parties
Water board parties
| Political party | Main ideology | Position | |||
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| style="background:Template:Party color;" | | AWP | File:AWP logo 2022.png | General Water Board Party Template:Small |
Apoliticism | Syncretic |
| style="background:Template:Party color;" height="40px" | | WN | File:Water natuurlijk logo.jpg | Water Natuurlijk | Green politics | Centre-left |
Defunct political parties
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| Party | Ideology | Start | End | Max vote share |
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| Actie Bouwman | 1934 | 1940 | 0.57 | citation | CitationClass=web
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| General Elderly Alliance {{#invoke:Lang|lang}} |
1993 | 3.63 | ||||
| General League of Roman Catholic Electoral Associations {{#invoke:Lang|lang}} |
1904 | 1926 | 30.03 | |||
| Article 50 {{#invoke:Lang|lang}} |
2012 | 2015 | 0.51 | |||
| General Dutch Fascist League {{#invoke:Lang|lang}} |
Fascism | 1932 | 1934 | |||
| Anti-Revolutionary Party {{#invoke:Lang|lang}} |
1879 | 1980 | <ref name="ARP 2021" /> | |||
| Workers Party of the Netherlands {{#invoke:Lang|lang}} |
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| Farmers' Party {{#invoke:Lang|lang}} |
1958 | 1981 | 4.77 | |||
| League of Christian Socialists {{#invoke:Lang|lang}} |
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| League of Free Liberals {{#invoke:Lang|lang}} |
1906 | 1921 | ||||
| Centre Democrats {{#invoke:Lang|lang}} |
1984 | 2002 | 2.46 | |||
| Centre Party {{#invoke:Lang|lang}} |
1980 | 1986 | 0.83 | |||
| Centre Party '86 {{#invoke:Lang|lang}} |
1986 | 1998 | 0.4Template:0 | |||
| Christian Democratic Party {{#invoke:Lang|lang}} |
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| Christian Democratic Union {{#invoke:Lang|lang}} |
1926 | 1946 | 2.09 | |||
| Christian Historical Union {{#invoke:Lang|lang}} |
1908 | 1980 | ||||
| Christian Social Party {{#invoke:Lang|lang}} |
1907 | 1926 | ||||
| Christian Historical Voters' League {{#invoke:Lang|lang}} |
1897 | 1903 | ||||
| Christian Historical Party {{#invoke:Lang|lang}} |
1903 | 1908 | ||||
| Communist Party of the Netherlands {{#invoke:Lang|lang}} |
1901 | 1991 | 10.56 | |||
| Democratic Party {{#invoke:Lang|lang}} |
1921 | 1932 | ||||
| Democratic Socialists '70 {{#invoke:Lang|lang}} |
1970 | 1983 | 5.33 | |||
| Economic League {{#invoke:Lang|lang}} |
1917 | 1921 | 3.11 | |||
| Entrepreneurs' Party {{#invoke:Lang|lang}} |
2015 | 2019 | 0.12 | |||
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| Evangelical People's Party {{#invoke:Lang|lang}} |
1981 | 1991 | 0.69 | |||
| Fatherland League | ||||||
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| Frisian League {{#invoke:Lang|lang}} |
1898 | 1908 | ||||
| Reformed Political League {{#invoke:Lang|lang}} |
1948 | 2003 | 1.77 | |||
| {{#invoke:Lang|lang}} | 1921 | 1946 | 1.06 | |||
| Independent Socialist Party | ||||||
| Islam Democrats {{#invoke:Lang|lang}} |
2005 | 0.0 | citation | CitationClass=web
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| Catholic National Party | 2.71 | |||||
| Catholic People's Party | 1945 | 1980 | 31.88 | |||
| Communist Workers Organisation (Marxist–Leninist) | ||||||
| Communist Unity Movement of the Netherlands (Marxist–Leninist) {{#invoke:Lang|lang}} |
Communism | 1964 | 1985 | 0.03 | ||
| Independent Citizens' Party | ||||||
| Livable Netherlands {{#invoke:Lang|lang}} |
1999 | 2007 | 1.61 | |||
| Liberal State Party {{#invoke:Lang|lang}} |
1921 | 1946 | 9.26 | |||
| Liberal Party {{#invoke:Lang|lang}} |
1922 | 1925 | ||||
| Liberal Union | 1885 | 1921 | ||||
| Pim Fortuyn List {{#invoke:Lang|lang}} |
2002 | 2008 | 17.00 | |||
| Ratelband List | ||||||
| Middle Party for City and Country | ||||||
| Middle Class Party | ||||||
| National Socialist Dutch Workers Party {{#invoke:Lang|lang}} |
National socialism | 1931 | 1941 | 0.02 | ||
| National Socialist Movement {{#invoke:Lang|lang}} |
Fascism | 1931 | 1945 | 4.22 | ||
| Dutch Block | ||||||
| New Middle Party | ||||||
| Neutral Party | ||||||
| New National Party {{#invoke:Lang|lang}} |
1998 | 2005 | ||||
| New Right {{#invoke:Lang|lang}} |
2003 | 2007 | ||||
| NIDA | ||||||
| New Ways {{#invoke:Lang|lang}} |
0.14 | |||||
| Pacifist Socialist Party | 1957 | 1991 | 3.03 | |||
| Party of the Future | 2021 | |||||
| Party for Neighbourly Love, Freedom and Diversity | 2006, 2020 | 2010, 2022 | ||||
| Freedom Party {{#invoke:Lang|lang}} |
1946 | 1948 | 6.41 | |||
| Party for Justice, Action and Progress | ||||||
| Peasants' League | ||||||
| Political Party of Radicals {{#invoke:Lang|lang}} |
1968 | 1990 | 4.80 | |||
| Progressive Integration Party | ||||||
| Radical League | ||||||
| Reformatory Political Federation | 1975 | 2003 | ||||
| Roman Catholic Party of the Netherlands | 0.92 | |||||
| Roman Catholic State Party | 1926 | 1945 | 29.64 | |||
| Social Democratic Workers' Party | 1894 | 1946 | 23.81 | |||
| Social Democratic League | ||||||
| Socialist Party | ||||||
| Union 55+ | ||||||
| Alliance to Democratise the Forces | 0.51 | |||||
| League of Communists in the Netherlands | ||||||
| Alliance for National Reconstruction {{#invoke:Lang|lang}} |
1933 | 1941 | 0.8Template:0 | |||
| VoorNederland | 2014 | 2017 | 0.36 | |||
| Free-minded Party | ||||||
| Free-thinking Democratic League {{#invoke:Lang|lang}} |
1901 | 1946 | 9.06 | |||
| Free Anti Revolutionary Party {{#invoke:Lang|lang}} |
1898 | 1903 | ||||
| Union of Actualists {{#invoke:Lang|lang}} |
Actualism | 1923 | 1928 | citation | CitationClass=web
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See also
- Politics of the Netherlands
- List of ruling political parties by country
- Liberalism in the Netherlands
- Socialism in the Netherlands
- Christian democracy in the Netherlands
- Republicanism in the Netherlands
- Fascism in the Netherlands
- List of political parties in Aruba
- List of political parties in Curaçao
- List of political parties in Saba
- List of political parties in Sint Eustatius
- List of political parties in Sint Maarten
References
External links
- Documentation Centre for Dutch Political Parties (DNPP) at University of Groningen
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