List of members of the House of Representatives of the Netherlands, 2017–present
Below is a list of members of the House of Representatives, lower house of the States-General of the Netherlands, according to the outcome of the Dutch general election of 2017. The members of the new House of Representatives have been installed on 23 March 2017. There will be a sizable number of mutations since due to the particular nature of the Dutch constitutional system. New members are supplied from their party lists so the resignation of individual members' seats does not change the balance of power in the States-General.
Only the originally elected and installed members are represented in this list, the current members are to be found in the template below this page. Parliamentary leaders are signified in bold.
Parties
People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD) – 33 seats
Party for Freedom (PVV) – 20 seats
Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA) – 19 seats
Democrats 66 (D66) – 19 seats
GroenLinks (GL) – 14 seats
Socialist Party (SP) – 14 seats
Labour Party (PvdA) – 9 seats
ChristianUnion (CU) – 5 seats
Party for the Animals (PvdD) – 5 seats
50PLUS (50+) – 4 seats
Reformed Political Party (SGP) – 3 seats
Denk (DENK) – 3 seats
Forum for Democracy (FvD) – 2 seats
Changes
2017
- 23 March: Sjoerd Peters (VVD) refrains from being installed.[1]
- 7 September: Pieter Duisenberg (People's Party for Freedom and Democracy) resigns and is replaced by Roald van der Linde.[2]
- 25 October: Jeroen Dijsselbloem (PvdA) resigns and is replaced by William Moorlag.[3]
- 25 October: Mark Rutte, Halbe Zijlstra, Tamara van Ark, Sander Dekker, Barbara Visser, Mark Harbers (all VVD), [[Mona Keijzer], Raymond Knops (both CDA), Stientje van Veldhoven, Wouter Koolmees,(all D66) Ingrid van Engelshoven and Carola Schouten (ChristenUnion) resign to become minister or state secretary in the third Rutte cabinet.
- 31 October: The empty places are filled by Antoinette Laan-Geselschap, Judith Tielen, Hayke Veldman, Rudmer Heerema, Wybren van Haga, Leendert de Lange (all VVD), Evert-Jan Slootweg, Lenny Geluk-Poortvliet (both CDA), Monica den Boer, Matthijs Sienot, Joost Sneller (all D66) and Stieneke van der Graaf (ChristenUnion).
- 13 December: Emile Roemer is replaced as parliamentary leader of SP by Lilian Marijnissen.
2018
- 17 January: Emile Roemer (SP) resigns and is replaced the next day by Mahir Alkaya.[4]
- 29 March: Nine Kooiman (SP) resigns and is replaced on the third of April by Henk van Gerven.[5]
- 10 April: Elbert Dijkgraaf resigns and is replaced a day later by Chris Stoffer.[6]
- 24 April: Tunahan Kuzu is replaced as parliamentary leader of DENK by Farid Azarkan.
- 31 May: Sharon Dijksma (PvdA) resigns and is replaced on the 5th of June by John Kerstens.[7]
- 5 June: Linda Voortman (GroenLinks) resigns and is replaced the next day by Paul Smeulders.[8]
- 6 June: Rik Grashoff (GroenLinks) resigns and is replaced the next day by Laura Bromet.[9]
- 12 June: Liesbeth van Tongeren (GroenLinks) resigns and is replaced the next day by Wim-Jan Renkema.[10]
- 4 September: Han ten Broeke (VVD) resigns and is replaced the next day by Tobias van Gent.[11]
- 12 September: Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert (VVD) resigns and is replaced the next day by Thierry Aartsen
- 9 October: Alexander Pechtold (D66) resigns as member and as parliamentary leader of D66. As leader he is replaced by Rob Jetten. His seat is taken the next day by Rutger Schonis.
- 11 December: Karen Gerbrands (PVV) resigns and is replaced by Emiel van Dijk.
2019
- 19 February: Foort van Oosten (VVD) resigns and is replaced the next day by Jeroen van Wijngaarden.
- 21 May: Pieter Heerma replaces Sybrand van Haersma Buma as parliamentary leader of CDA.
- 28 May: Sybrand van Haersma Buma (CDA) resigns and is replaced the next day by Hilde Palland
- 4 June: Zihni Özdil (GroenLinks) resigns and is replaced the next day by Niels van den Berge/
- 4 June: Hanke Bruins Slot (CDA) resigns and is replaced by Wytske Postma.
- 10 June: Malik Azmani (VVD) resigns and is replaced the next day by Mark Harbers.
- 10 June: Martin van Rooijen (50+) resigns and is replaced the next day by Gerrit-Jan van Otterloo.
- 2 July: Leendert de Lange (VVD) resigns and is replaced by Kelly Regterschot.
- 16 July: Femke Merel van Kooten-Arissen breaks from Party for the Animals and continues as independent member.
- 2 September: Tunahan Kuzu returns as parliamentary leader of DENK, replacing Farid Azarkan.
- 24 September: Wybren van Haga is kicked from the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy and continues as independent member.
- 8 October: Marianne Thieme (Party for the Animals) resigns and is replaced by Eva van Esch the next day.[12]
- 12 October: Arno Rutte (VVD) resigns and is replaced on the 15th by Bart Smals
- 31 October: Sietse Fritsma (PVV) resigns and is replaced by Chris Jansen.
2020
- 21 March: Tunahan Kuzu (DENK) is replaced as parliamentary leader by Farid Azarkan.
- 30 April: Isabelle Diks (GroenLinks) and is replaced on 7 May by Tom van den Nieuwenhuijzen.
- 3 May: Henk Krol leaves 50PLUS and joins Femke Merel van Kooten-Arissen as the Group Krol/Van Kooten-Arissen, with Krol as its parliamentary leader. Corrie van Brenk replaces Krol as parliamentary leader of 50+.
- 19 May: Monica den Boer (D66) resigns and is replaced by Marijke van Beukering the next day.
- 19 May: Erik Ronnes (CDA) resigns and is replaced the next day by Julius Terpstra.
- 1 July: Bas van 't Wout (VVD) resigns and is repalced by Martijn Bolkestein the next day.
- 5 August: Femke Merel van Kooten-Arissen and Henk Krol break off from eachother, and continue as independent members.
- 31 August: Gabriëlle Pokpen (PVV) resigns and is replaced by Sietse Fritsma the next day.
- 17 September: Anne Mulder (VVD) resigns and is replaced on 22 September by Mark Snoeren.
- 24 November: Theo Hiddema (FVD) resigns. This seat has remained vacant.
- 30 November: Wybren van Haga formally joins FVD in parliament.
2021
- 14 January: Lodewijk Asscher (PvdA) is replaced as parliamentary leader by Lilianne Ploumen.
References
- (in Dutch) Parlement & Politiek
- "VVD-Kamerlid Potters wordt burgemeester De Bilt" (in Dutch). NOS. 23 March 2017. Retrieved 20 December 2020.
- "Pieter Duisenberg (VVD) verlaat Tweede Kamer" (in Dutch). Parlement.com. 23 August 2017. Retrieved 20 October 2017.
- "Jeroen Dijsselbloem (PvdA) verlaat Tweede Kamer" (in Dutch). Parool. 11 October 2017. Retrieved 20 December 2020.
- "Kamer neemt afscheid van Emile Roemer" (in Dutch). NOS. 17 January 2018. Retrieved 20 December 2020.
- "SP'er Nine Kooiman (37) verlaat Tweede Kamer vanwege moederschap" (in Dutch). NU.NL. 27 March 2018. Retrieved 20 December 2020.
- "SGP'er Dijkgraaf verlaat Tweede Kamer vanwege huwelijksproblemen" (in Dutch). NOS. 10 April 2018. Retrieved 20 December 2020.
- "John Kerstens volgt Sharon Dijksma op in Tweede Kamer" (in Dutch). Algemeen Dagblad. 22 May 2018. Retrieved 20 December 2020.
- "GroenLinks-Kamerlid Voortman verlaat de Tweede Kamer" (in Dutch). NOS. 24 April 2018. Retrieved 20 December 2020.
- Keultjes, Hanneke (6 June 2018). "Grashoff: Spijt van geheimhouden relatie met GroenLinks-voorzitter" (in Dutch). Algemeen Dagblad. Retrieved 20 December 2020.
- "Liesbeth van Tongeren kreeg talloze voorkeursstemmen, maar wordt toch wethouder" (in Dutch). Trouw. 30 May 2018. Retrieved 20 December 2020.
- van Ast; Maarten (4 September 2018). "VVD'er Han ten Broeke neemt 'met pijn in het hart' afscheid van Kamer na affaire" (in Dutch). Trouw. Retrieved 20 December 2020.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
- "Animal party leader leaves parliament after 13 years". NL Times. 2019-09-30. Retrieved 2020-02-03.
- Media related to Composition of the Dutch House of Representatives (2017-present) at Wikimedia Commons