Template:List of cabinets of the Netherlands

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The following tables show the national election results and cabinets in the Netherlands since WWII. Per table, only parties that ever got seats over that period are listed (the number of participating parties in Dutch national elections is usually around 20).

The numbers give the number of seats for each party. The total number of seats in parliament is 150, so a coalition needs at least 76 seats for a majority.

In each table, the parties are split in three groups; parties that have been in government, minor parties and extinct parties. Within each group, the parties are grouped roughly according to the scheme leftwing - christian - rightwing.

columns
Elections	Election years (linking to the relevant articles)
sc	'seat change'; the number of seats that changed between parties. Numbers between brackets assume merging parties to be the same as the new party
Cabinet	The resulting cabinets (not necessarily in the same year)
Term	The duration of the term of that cabinet, in months
%	percentage of seats held by the government parties. (Note that the other numbers are seats, not percentages.)
cells
bold	party in cabinet (government)
-	not enough votes to get a seat in parliament
	party didn't exist then or did not participate nationally
	no elections

       Party name abbreviations
GrL = GroenLinks (a merger of PPR, PSP, CPN and EVP)
ChU = ChristenUnie (a merger of RPF and GVP)

Elections	sc		Cabinet	Term (months)	%		PvdA	D66	ChU	CDA	VVD	LPF		SP	GrL	PvdD	SGP	PVV		CPN	PSP	PPR	EVP	DS70	RPF	GPV	BP	LN	AOV	U55	CP	CD
2006	30		Balkenende IV	?	53		33	3	6	41	22	-		25	7	2	2	9
-	-		Balkenende III(1)	7	48		42	6	3	44	28	8		9	8		2
2003	24		Balkenende II	38	52		42	6	3	44	28	8		9	8		2
2002	(36)		Balkenende I	10	62		23	7	4	43	24	26		9	10		2								<< ChU			2
1998	25		Kok II	47	65		45	14		29	38			5	11		3								3	2
1994	34		Kok I	48	61		37	24		34	31			2	5		2								3	2			6	1		3
1989	(8)		Lubbers III	57	69		49	12		54	22			-	6		3			<< GrL					1	2						1
1986	17		Lubbers II	40	54		52	9		54	27			-			3			-	1	2	-		1	1					-	-
1982	15		Lubbers I	44	54		47	6		45	36			-			3			3	3	2	1	-	2	1					1
-	-		van Agt III(1)	5	43		44	17		48	26			-			3			3	3	3		-	2	1
1981	14		van Agt II	8	73		44	17		48	26			-			3			3	3	3		-	2	1
1977	(19)		van Agt I	45	51		53	8		49	28			-			3			2	1	3		1	-	1	1

In 1977, KVP, ARP and CHU merged into CDA.

DS'70 split off from PvdA
KNP is former Lijst Welter, which split off from KVP in 1948, but returned to that party in 1955
PvdV is the forerunner of VVD

Elections	sc		Cabinet	Term (months)	%		PvdA	DS70	D66	PPR	KVP	ARP	CHU	VVD		CPN	PSP	SGP	GPV	RKPN	BP	NMP		KNP	PvdV
1972	20		den Uyl(2)	55	65		43	6	6	7	27	14	7	22		7	2	3	2	1	3	-
-	-		Biesheuvel II(1)	9	49		39	8	11	2	35	13	10	16		6	2	3	2		1	2
1971	19		Biesheuvel I	13	55		39	8	11	2	35	13	10	16		6	2	3	2		1	2
1967	15		de Jong	51	57		37		7		42	15	12	17		5	4	3	1		7
-	-		Zijlstra(1)	4	42		43				50	13	13	16		4	4	3	1		3
-	-		Cals	19	71		43				50	13	13	16		4	4	3	1		3
1963	9		Marijnen	21	61		43				50	13	13	16		4	4	3	1		3
1959	8		de Quay	50	50		48				49	14	12	19		3	2	3	-		-
-	-		Beel II(1)	5	51		50				49	15	13	13		7		3	-
expansion from 100 to 150 seats				-	85		50				49	15	13	13		7		3	-
1956	7		Drees IV	26	85		34				33	10	8	9		4		2	-
1952	6		Drees III	49	81		30				30	12	9	9		6		2	-					2
-	-		Drees II	18	76		27				32	13	9	8		8		2	-					1
1948	(4)		Drees I	31	76		27				32	13	9	8		8		2	-					1
1946	?		Beel I	25	61		29				32	13	8			10		2							6
-	?		Schermerhorn - Drees(2)	13	(no elections - appointed by queen)
1940-1945: War cabinets without elections

⁽¹⁾ minority caretaker cabinet
⁽²⁾ extra-parliamentary cabinet