1948 Dutch Senate election

1948 Dutch Senate election

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

Party Leader Vote % Seats +/– KVP 32.99 17 0 PvdA 25.74 14 0 ARP 12.48 7 0 CHU 9.48 5 0 CPN 11.19 4 0 VVD 6.72 3 0 This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below. President of the Senate before President of the Senate after Roelof Kranenburg VDB Roelof Kranenburg PvdA

Elections for all 50 seats in the Senate of the Netherlands were held on 8 July 1948.

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. 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]

As Senators were elected by the same provincial councillors as in the previous 1946 Senate election, no seats changed hands. The incumbent government, consisting of the Catholic People's Party (KVP) and the Labour Party (PvdA) retained its combined majority of 31 seats.