1935 Dutch Senate election

Elections for 25 out of 50 seats in the Senate of the Netherlands were held on 26 July 1935. All seats in electoral group I comprising the provinces of North Brabant, Zeeland, Utrecht and Limburg, and electoral group III comprising the provinces of North Holland and Friesland, were up for election.

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1935 Dutch Senate election

← 1932 26 July 1935 1937 â†’

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

Party Leader Vote % Seats +/– RKSP 42.12 16 0 SDAP 19.70 11 0 ARP 7.75 6 0 NSB 7.34 2 New CHU 5.88 6 −1 LSP 4.14 5 −1 VDB 4.31 3 −1 CHU−ARP joint list 3.29 1 New This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below. President of the Senate before President of the Senate after Willem Lodewijk de Vos van Steenwijk CHU Willem Lodewijk de Vos van Steenwijk CHU

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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 election saw the incumbent government's majority shrink from 39 to 37 seats, with the Liberal State Party and the Free-thinking Democratic League losing one seat each. The Anti-Revolutionary Party and the Christian Historical Union contested the election with a joint list in the province of Friesland in group III. The list won one seat, which was allocated to a CHU candidate. The National Socialist Movement entered the Senate for the first time with two seats.