WThe elections of the Dutch Senate of 2003 were held on 26 May 2003, following the provincial elections on 11 March 2003. The 564 members of the twelve States-Provincial elected the 75 Senate members. The new Senate was installed on 10 June 2003. The term of office ended on 11 June 2007.
WThe elections of the Dutch Senate of 2007 were held on 29 May 2007, following the provincial elections on 7 March 2007. The 564 members of the twelve States-Provincial elected the 75 Senate members. The new Senate was installed on 12 June 2007.
WThe elections of the Dutch Senate of 2011 were held on 23 May 2011, following the provincial elections on 2 March 2011. The 566 members of the twelve States-Provincial elected the 75 Senate members. The new Senate was installed on 7 June 2011. The term ended on 8 June 2015.
WGeneral elections took place in Curaçao on 19 March 2021, two days after the 2021 Dutch general election.
WThe Bonaire People's Movement is a Dutch local political party in the special municipality of Bonaire.
WIn Dutch politics the bordes scene (Dutch:bordesscène) is the official presentation of a new cabinet with the monarch on the "bordes" of the royal palace.
WThe Brabant Party is a provincial political party in the Dutch province of North Brabant. It has no parliamentary representation, but it is linked to the Independent Senate Group.
WChristian Union – Reformed Political Party is a parliamentary common list for the European Parliament formed by two Dutch orthodox Protestant parties: the Christian Union and the Reformed Political Party. Both parties are eurosceptic and morally conservative, and each has candidates on the common list. The CU and SGP also regularly co-operate in municipal elections, often gaining above-average results in municipalities which form part of the Dutch Bible Belt.
WCode Orange is a political movement in the Netherlands.
WA dijkgraaf, sometimes called a watergraaf, is the chair of a Dutch water board. He is the equivalent of a mayor in local government and a King's Commissioner in provincial government, chairing both the legislative and executive council, while having both ceremonial and representational roles as well as his own portfolios. The term goes back to pre-medieval days.
WA heemraad, or hoogheemraad is a local official of a Dutch water board. The term can be pluralized to (hoog)heemraden, but sometimes the word heemraad also means more than one man in the sense of a meeting of (hoog)heemraden, such as decisions made by the heemraad. In this sense, the college of heemraden met and acted as one body in the same way that the executive board meet at the city hall. A heemraad is the equivalent of an alderman (wethouder) in local government, being a member of both the local legislative council, while having representational roles for his own area. The term goes back to pre-medieval days.
WThe Farmer–Citizen Movement is an agrarian political party in the Netherlands. It is headquartered in Deventer, Overijssel. The current party leader is Caroline van der Plas, who founded it in 2019.
WJONG is a political party in The Netherlands.
WKabouters were a Dutch anarchist group in the 1970s. It was founded by Roel van Duijn and one of its objectives was to set up an alternative society based on Van Duyn’s ideas as stated in his book, De boodschap van een wijze Kabouter. Van Duyn for some time worked at an organic farm and asked the farmer if they were going to get a harvester. “No,” the farmer responded “Noisy machines chase away the kabouters, and we need them to keep our plants healthy.” That is why Van Duyn used this image.
WKadaster is the name designation of the Dutch Cadastre, Land Registry and national mapping agency in the Netherlands. The word Kadaster comes from the medieval Latin catastrum, descended from either the Greek καταστιχον, frame, or the Latin capitatrastum (head), a Roman head tax based on property ownership.
WThe Liberal Democratic Party is a minor social liberal party in the Netherlands, founded in August 2006. The leader of the party is Sammy van Tuyll van Serooskerken.
WThe Libertarian Party is a libertarian political party in the Netherlands founded in 1993. It hopes to develop "a free world, a world in which no one is forced to sacrifice his or her life and property for the benefit of others". Its founder is Toine Manders, who works for the Haags Juristen College. On 9 May 2015, Jasper de Groot was elected as chairman.
WLijstduwer is a Dutch term for the last candidate on a party list.
WThe Mobile Netherlands is a political party in the Netherlands without parliamentary representation.
WNetherlands–Uruguay relations are the relations between the Netherlands and Uruguay. The Netherlands is accredited to Uruguay from its embassy in Buenos Aires, Argentina and honorary consulate in Montevideo. Uruguay has an embassy in The Hague.
WThe New National Party was a Dutch nationalist political party which existed between 1998 and 2005. It succeeded the "Volksnationalisten Nederland" party which had been founded in 1997. The NNP was originally named "Nationale Partij Nederland" but because another party had used a similar name earlier the name was rejected by the Electoral Council.
WNLBeter is a political party in the Netherlands. Founded in November 2019, it primarily advocated for healthcare reform.
WThe Party for Justice, Action and Progress was a political party in the Netherlands without parliamentary representation. It was founded May 2005 by the crime journalist Peter R. de Vries. The abbreviation of the party's name, PRDV, is also his initials. It is the former name of 50PLUS, the Seniors Party.
WThe Party for Zeeland is a political party in the province of Zeeland in the Netherlands. It is one of the largest independent provincial political parties of the Netherlands, and arose through an alliance between the ZVP and a number of local municipal political parties.
WThe Party New Limburg is a provincial political party in the Dutch province of Limburg. It has no parliamentary representation, but it is linked to the Independent Senate Group.
WParty The New Human, formerly known as the Party for Human and Spirit, is a political party in the Netherlands. The party registered with the electoral council in December 2008.
WThe President of the Senate is one of the 75 members of the Senate of the Netherlands and is elected to lead its meetings and be its representative. The officeholder also chairs the Internal Committee, the Committee of Senior Members as well as the joint sessions of both houses of the States General, the so-called Verenigde Vergadering.
WThe Progressive Integration Party is a political party in the Netherlands without parliamentary representation. It seeks its voters within the ethnic minorities in the country.
WThe Vrije Socialistische Groep or Sociaal-Anarchistische Actie in Nederland, nicknamed Rapaille Partij was a Dutch local political party founded in Amsterdam in the 1920s. Their ideology was strongly against democracy, the parliamentary system and the obligation to vote. In order to ridicule democracy, they tried to have marginal figures elected such as the vagabond and street musician Hadjememaar and former anarchist Bertus Zuurbier.
WA rump cabinet is a cabinet from which one or more coalition partners have withdrawn and which has minority support in parliament.
WThe Social Liberal Party (SLP) is a Dutch political party that has plans to run in the next parliamentary elections. The SLP describes itself as a party between Geert Wilders and his Party for Freedom and Rita Verdonk and her Proud of the Netherlands party.
WSolidara was a political party in the Netherlands, founded by former Socialist Party member of the Senate, Düzgün Yildirim. Yildirim was elected to the Senate after a voting mistake, but refused to give up his seat, after which the SP terminated his party membership. Yildirim kept his seat in the senate as an independent and founded Solidara.
WThe 2016 Speaker of the House of Representatives election was called to elect the new Speaker of the House of Representatives of the Netherlands after incumbent Anouchka van Miltenburg of the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD) had resigned on 12 December 2015. Van Miltenburg, who had been the Speaker since 25 September 2012, resigned after increasing criticism on her performance as Speaker. Khadija Arib of the Labour Party (PvdA), who had been a member of the House of Representatives from 1998 to 2006 and again since 2007, beat Ton Elias of the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD), who had been a member of the House since 2008.
WOn 7 April 2021, the House of Representatives of the Netherlands voted to elect its Speaker for the 2021–2025 term. The election was held three weeks after the 2021 general election. Incumbent Speaker Khadija Arib of the Labour Party (PvdA) ran for re-election, but lost to Vera Bergkamp of Democrats 66 (D66) who won the election by a margin of 36 votes.
WSplinter is a political party in the Netherlands. It was founded in December 2020 by Femke Merel van Kooten, who has led it since and served as its lijstrekker in the 2021 general election. It has a progressive, secular and social liberal ideology.
WUbuntu Connected Front (UCF) is a political party in the Netherlands.
WWater Natuurlijk is a political party in the Netherlands that focuses exclusively on water board politics. The party received the highest number of votes in the 2008, 2015 and 2019 water board elections.