1926 Dutch Senate election

Elections for 25 out of 50 seats in the Senate of the Netherlands were held on 30 July 1926. All seats in electoral group II comprising the provinces of Gelderland, Overijssel, Groningen and Drenthe, and electoral group IV comprising the province of South Holland, were up for election.

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1926 Dutch Senate election

← 1923 30 July 1926 1929 â†’

25 of the 50 seats in the Senate 26 seats needed for a majority

Party Leader Vote % Seats +/– RKSP 20.54 16 0 SDAP 22.09 11 0 ARP 19.48 7 −1 CHU 14.46 7 0 LSP 14.39 6 +1 VDB 7.13 3 0 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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Within each electoral group, Senators were elected by provincial councils using party-list proportional representation. Provincial councillors' votes were weighted to their province's population.^[1]

The incumbent Coalition government retained a comfortable majority of 30 seats, down from 31. The Anti-Revolutionary Party lost one seat to the Liberal State Party in group IV.