1918 Dutch general election
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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
A man writing political slogans on a wooden fence in Amsterdam
League of Free Liberals
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The League of Free Liberals was a Dutch classical liberal political party and a predecessor of the Liberal State Party which is historically linked to the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy, the
1918 Dutch general election
…Historical Union, together won 50 seats. The liberal parties lost the most seats. While in 1917, two of the liberal parties, the Liberal Union and the League of Free Liberals, had won 31 seats, they were now reduced to 10 seats. Together with three smaller liberal parties, liberals now held only 15 seats in the House of…
Joan Röell, Prime Minister from 1894 to 1897.
Samuel van Houten, Minister of the Interior from 1894 to 1897.