1923 Dutch Senate election

Elections for all 50 seats of the Senate of the Netherlands took place on 27 July 1923.

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1923 Dutch Senate election

← 1922 27 July 1923 1926 â†’

All 50 seats in the Senate 26 seats needed for a majority

Party Leader Vote % Seats +/– AB 32.40 16 −5 SDAP 19.76 11 +8 ARP 15.31 8 −6 CHU 12.52 7 0 LSP 10.50 5 +4 VDB 6.82 3 −1 This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below. President of the Senate before President of the Senate after Jan Joseph Godfried van Voorst tot Voorst AB Jan Joseph Godfried van Voorst tot Voorst AB

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It was the first election held after the 1922 constitutional revision, which introduced party-list proportional representation for Senate elections. Senators were elected by provincial councils in four "electoral groups". Group I comprised North Brabant, Zeeland, Utrecht and Limburg; group II comprised Gelderland, Overijssel, Groningen and Drenthe; group III comprised North Holland and Friesland; and group IV comprised South Holland. Provincial councillors' votes were weighted to their province's population.^[1]

The election resulted in a reduced majority of 31 seats for the Coalition government, comprising the Catholic General League, the Anti-Revolutionary Party and the Christian Historical Union. The Social Democratic Workers' Party became the largest opposition party in the Senate with 11 seats, 8 up from the previous election.