Election Name: | 1952 Dutch general election |
Country: | Netherlands |
Ongoing: | no |
Previous Election: | 1948 |
Next Election: | 1956 |
Seats For Election: | All 100 seats in the House of Representatives |
Majority Seats: | 51 |
Election Date: | 25 June 1952 |
Turnout: | 95.0% (1.3 pp) |
Leader1: | Willem Drees |
Party1: | Labour Party (Netherlands) |
Last Election1: | 27 |
Seats1: | 30 |
Percentage1: | 29.0% |
Leader2: | Carl Romme |
Party2: | Catholic People's Party |
Last Election2: | 32 |
Seats2: | 30 |
Percentage2: | 28.7% |
Leader3: | Jan Schouten |
Party3: | Anti-Revolutionary Party |
Last Election3: | 13 |
Seats3: | 12 |
Percentage3: | 11.3% |
Leader4: | Hendrik Tilanus |
Party4: | Christian Historical Union |
Last Election4: | 9 |
Seats4: | 9 |
Percentage4: | 8.9% |
Party5: | People's Party for Freedom and Democracy |
Last Election5: | 8 |
Seats5: | 9 |
Percentage5: | 8.8% |
Leader6: | Paul de Groot |
Party6: | Communist Party of the Netherlands |
Last Election6: | 8 |
Seats6: | 6 |
Percentage6: | 6.2% |
Leader7: | Charles Welter |
Party7: | Catholic National Party |
Last Election7: | 1 |
Seats7: | 2 |
Percentage7: | 2.7% |
Leader8: | Pieter Zandt |
Party8: | Reformed Political Party |
Last Election8: | 2 |
Seats8: | 2 |
Percentage8: | 2.4% |
Map: | Tweede kamerverkiezingen 1952.pdf |
Map Size: | 250px |
Prime Minister | |
Before Election: | First Drees cabinet |
Before Party: | KVP–PvdA–CHU–VVD |
After Election: | Second Drees cabinet |
After Party: | PvdA–KVP–ARP–CHU |
General elections were held in the Netherlands on 25 June 1952.[1] The Catholic People's Party and the Labour Party both won 30 of the 100 seats in the House of Representatives.[2] It was the first time since 1913 that the Catholic People's Party and its predecessors had not received a plurality of the vote.[3]
The elections led to a continuation of the previous four-party government, consisting of Labour, the Catholic People's Party, People's Party for Freedom and Democracy and the Christian Historical Union. However, three months after the elections the VVD left the government and were replaced by the Anti-Revolutionary Party.
Province | PvdA | KVP | ARP | CHU | VVD | CPN | KNP | SGP | Others | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
41.8 | 6.2 | 16.8 | 12.9 | 14.8 | 4.4 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 2.4 | ||
36.6 | 6.7 | 22.8 | 16.3 | 8.6 | 4.6 | 0.4 | 0.8 | 3.1 | ||
28.7 | 28.9 | 10.7 | 13.5 | 8.5 | 2.2 | 2.1 | 4.2 | 1.2 | ||
38.0 | 5.2 | 18.2 | 10.2 | 12.6 | 9.0 | 0.7 | 0.2 | 5.7 | ||
12.8 | 75.4 | 1.0 | 0.9 | 0.9 | 2.3 | 6.1 | 0.1 | 0.5 | ||
15.0 | 69.8 | 2.9 | 2.6 | 2.0 | 1.3 | 5.1 | 0.7 | 0.6 | ||
32.7 | 21.1 | 9.6 | 5.2 | 11.3 | 14.6 | 2.8 | 0.6 | 2.0 | ||
26.8 | 26.3 | 11.2 | 14.2 | 8.5 | 6.2 | 1.4 | 3.1 | 2.4 | ||
33.4 | 16.7 | 14.4 | 9.9 | 11.2 | 5.7 | 2.5 | 4.0 | 2.0 | ||
28.9 | 23.9 | 19.5 | 14.2 | 5.1 | 4.2 | 0.3 | 1.9 | 2.0 | ||
28.2 | 23.3 | 15.0 | 11.7 | 8.9 | 3.7 | 2.6 | 4.1 | 2.6 | ||
28.0 | 18.5 | 13.8 | 15.8 | 8.0 | 0.9 | 1.1 | 9.5 | 4.4 |