Government of Amsterdam
The Government of Amsterdam consists of several territorial and functional forms of local and regional government. The principal form of government is the
The
Since March 24, 2022 the city of Weesp has been a part of the municipality of Amsterdam.
Municipal government
Amsterdam City Council Gemeenteraad van Amsterdam | |
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Mayor of Amsterdam | |
Structure | |
Seats | 45 |
Political groups | Government (24)[1]
Opposition (21) |
Elections | |
Last election | 2022 |
Next election | 2026 |
Meeting place | |
Amsterdam City Hall, located at Amstel 1 (Stopera building) | |
Website | |
https://www.amsterdam.nl/en/governance/city-council/ |
The city of Amsterdam is a
In July 2010,
Municipal Government 2006–2010
After the
In total, 24 parties took part in the elections, including 11 new ones, but only 7 got seats.
Name | Portfolio | Party | |
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Job Cohen | mayor Safety & Internal Affairs |
PvdA | |
Lodewijk Asscher | vice-mayor Finance & Economy |
PvdA | |
Freek Ossel[6] | Education & Income | PvdA | |
Carolien Gehrels | Culture & Recreation | PvdA | |
Hans Gerson[7] | Transport & Housing | PvdA | |
Maarten van Poelgeest | Spatial Planning | GL | |
Marijke Vos | Environment & Health | GL |
Party | seats | change from 2002 | |
---|---|---|---|
Labour Party |
20 | 5 | |
VVD |
8 | 1 | |
GreenLeft | 7 | 1 | |
Socialist Party | 6 | 2 | |
Christian Democratic Appeal | 2 | 2 | |
Democrats 66 | 2 | 1 | |
AA/De Groenen |
0 | 1 | |
Mokum Mobiel | 0 | 1 | |
Total | 45 | - |
Municipal Government 2010–2014
Name | Portfolio | Party | |
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Eberhard van der Laan | mayor Safety & Internal Affairs |
PvdA | |
Pieter Hilhorst[8] | vice-mayor Finance & Education |
PvdA | |
Freek Ossel | Housing | PvdA | |
Carolien Gehrels | Economy & Culture | PvdA | |
Eric van der Burg | Health & Schiphol |
VVD | |
Eric Wiebes | Transport | VVD | |
Maarten van Poelgeest | Spatial Planning | GL | |
Andrée van Es | Income | GL |
Party | seats | change from 2006 | |
---|---|---|---|
Labour Party |
15 | 5 | |
VVD |
8 | 0 | |
GreenLeft | 7 | 0 | |
Democrats 66 | 7 | 5 | |
Socialist Party | 3 | 3 | |
Christian Democratic Appeal | 2 | 0 | |
Save Amsterdam | 1 | 1 | |
Proud of the Netherlands |
1 | 1 | |
Party for the Animals | 1 | 1 | |
Total | 45 | - |
Municipal Government 2014–2018
Name | Portfolio | Party | |
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Eberhard van der Laan | mayor Safety, Internal Affairs & Finance |
PvdA | |
Kajsa Ollongren | vice-mayor Schiphol & Culture |
D66 | |
Udo Kock | Amsterdam-West, Finance & Water Resource Management | D66 | |
Simone Kukenheim | Amsterdam-Oost, Education & Integration | D66 | |
Abdeluheb Choho | Public Space, Climate & ICT | D66 | |
Eric van der Burg | Amsterdam-Zuid, Health, Sport & Spatial Planning | VVD | |
Pieter Litjens | Amsterdam-Zuidoost, Transport & Real Estate | VVD | |
Laurens Ivens | Amsterdam-Noord, Housing & Animal Welfare | SP | |
Arjan Vliegenthart | Amsterdam Nieuw-West, Labour, Income & Poverty | SP |
Party | seats | change from 2010 | |
---|---|---|---|
Democrats 66 | 14 | 7 | |
Labour Party |
10 | 5 | |
VVD |
6 | 2 | |
GreenLeft | 6 | 1 | |
Socialist Party | 6 | 3 | |
Christian Democratic Appeal | 1 | 1 | |
Party for the Animals | 1 | 0 | |
Party for the Senior Citizens | 1 | 1 | |
Save Amsterdam | 0 | 1 | |
Proud of the Netherlands |
0 | 1 | |
Total | 45 | - |
Municipal Government 2018–2022
Name | Portfolio | Party | |
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Femke Halsema | Mayor of Amsterdam General Affairs, Safety, Legal Affairs, & Communications |
GL | |
Marieke van Doorninck | Spatial Development, & Sustainability | GL | |
Rutger Groot Wassink | Social Affairs, Democratization, & Diversity | GL | |
Touria Meliani | Arts and Culture, & Digital City | GL | |
Sharon Dijksma | Traffic and Transport, Water, & Air quality | PvdA | |
Marjolein Moorman | Education, Poverty, & Civic Integration | PvdA | |
Udo Kock | Finance, Economic Affairs, & Zuidas | D66 | |
Simone Kukenheim | Care, Youth, Education and Training, & Sport | D66 | |
Laurens Ivens | Housing, Construction, & Public Space | SP |
Party | Votes | % | +/− | Seats | +/− | |||
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GreenLeft | GL | 70,880 | 20.4 | +9.6 | 10 | +4 | ||
Democrats 66 | D66 | 55,724 | 16.1 | −10.7 | 8 | −6 | ||
People's Party for Freedom and Democracy | VVD | 39,702 | 11.4 | +0.2 | 6 | +0 | ||
Labour Party | PvdA | 37,181 | 10.7 | −7.7 | 5 | −5 | ||
Socialist Party | SP | 26,070 | 7.5 | −3.7 | 3 | −3 | ||
Party for the Animals | PvdD | 24,672 | 7.1 | +4.3 | 3 | +2 | ||
Denk | DENK | 23,138 | 6.7 | New | 3 | New | ||
Forum for Democracy | FvD | 20,015 | 5.8 | New | 3 | New | ||
Christian Democratic Appeal | CDA | 11,991 | 3.5 | +0.7 | 1 | +0 | ||
Party for the Elderly | PvdO | 7,752 | 2.2 | +0.1 | 1 | +0 | ||
Christian Union | CU | 6,837 | 2.0 | +0.2 | 1 | +1 | ||
Amsterdam Bij1 | BIJ1 | 6,571 | 1.9 | New | 1 | New | ||
Pirate Party Amsterdam | PPNL | 4,459 | 1.3 | −0.5 | 0 | +0 | ||
50PLUS | 50+ | 4,233 | 1.2 | New | 0 | New | ||
Other | 7,923 | 2.3 | 0 | |||||
Total valid votes | 347,148 | 100 | 45 | |||||
Invalid/blank votes | 4,511 | 1.3 | ||||||
Total & turnout | 351,659 | 51.2 | +1.9 | |||||
Source: Verkiezingsuitslagen |
Municipal Government 2022–present
Name | Portfolio | Party | |
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Femke Halsema | Mayor of Amsterdam General Affairs, Safety, Legal Affairs, & Communications |
GL | |
Marjolein Moorman | Education, Poverty, Civic Integration, Masterplan Zuidoost | PvdA | |
Sofyan Mbarki | Economic Affairs, Sport & Recreation, MBO Agenda, Vocational Education & Labour Market Integration, Youth Work, Inner City Affairs | PvdA | |
Hester van Buren | Finance, Personnel & Organisation, Coordination of operations, Services, Air and Sea Port, Coordination of purchasing | PvdA | |
Rutger Groot Wassink | Social Affairs, Shelter, Municipal Holdings, Democratization, Development Plan Nieuw-West | GL | |
Zita Pels | Sustainability & Circular Economy, Public Housing | GL | |
Touria Meliani | Arts and Culture, Monuments & Heritage, Events, Inclusion and Antidiscrimination policy | GL | |
Reinier van Dantzig | Housing construction, Land & Development, Spatial Planning | D66 | |
Melanie van der Horst | Traffic, transport & air quality, Public Space & Green, Water, Development Plan Amsterdam-Noord) | D66 | |
Shula Rijxman | Care & social development, Public Health & Prevention, ICT and Digital City, Local Media, Participations | D66 |
DENK 13,039 | 4.01 | 2 | –1 | | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Christian Democratic Appeal | 8,270 | 2.55 | 1 | 0 | |||||
Forum for Democracy | 6,688 | 2.06 | 1 | –2 | |||||
Other parties | 26,347 | 8.11 | 0 | –2 | |||||
Total | 324,869 | 100.00 | 45 | – | |||||
Valid votes | 324,869 | 99.11 | |||||||
Invalid/blank votes | 2,924 | 0.89 | |||||||
Total votes | 327,793 | 100.00 | |||||||
Registered voters/turnout | 703,714 | 46.58 | |||||||
Source: Kiesraad |
Boroughs
Unlike most other Dutch municipalities, Amsterdam is subdivided into eight boroughs (stadsdelen or 'districts') and the urban area of Weesp, a system that was implemented in the 1980s and significantly reformed in 2014. Before 2014, the boroughs were responsible for many activities that previously had been run by the central city. The idea was to bring the government closer to the people. All of these had their own district council (deelraad), chosen by a popular election. Local decisions were made at borough level, and only affairs pertaining the whole city (like major infrastructural projects), were delegated to the central city council. As of 2014, the powers of the boroughs have been significantly reduced, although they still have an elected council called bestuurscommissie ('district committee').
The boroughs are:
- Amsterdam-Centrum (English: Centre).
- Amsterdam-Noord
- Amsterdam-Oost
- Amsterdam-Zuid
- Amsterdam-West
- Amsterdam-Zuidoost
- Amsterdam Nieuw-West
The eighth, Westpoort, covers the western harbour area of Amsterdam. Because it has very few inhabitants it is governed by the central municipal council.
Mayors
The mayor of Amsterdam is the head of the city council. The current mayor is Femke Halsema. The mayors since World War II are:
- Feike de Boer (1945–1946)
- Arnold Jan d'Ailly (1946–1956)
- Gijs van Hall (1956–1967)
- Ivo Samkalden (1967–1977)
- Wim Polak (1977–1983)
- Ed van Thijn (1983–1994)
- Schelto Patijn (1994–2001)
- Job Cohen (2001–2010)
- Eberhard van der Laan (2010–2017)
- Femke Halsema (2018-)
Population centers
International cooperation
Cities (and country) of international cooperation:[9] |
Sister ports:[9]
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References
- ^ "The College of Mayor and Alderpersons".
- ^ "City Council & college of Alderpersons". Iamsterdam.com. Archived from the original on 2014-08-19. Retrieved 2014-08-14.
- ^ "Eberhard van der Laan to be Amsterdam's new mayor". DutchNews.nl. June 24, 2010. Retrieved August 13, 2014.
- ^ Britt Slegers (Jun 12, 2014). "Three-party coalition in Amsterdam". NL Times. Retrieved Aug 13, 2014.
- ^ "College van burgemeester en wethouders" (in Dutch). City of Amsterdam. Retrieved 2014-08-13.
- ^ Replaced Hennah Buyne since March/April 2008. Buyne replaced Ahmed Aboutaleb since March 14, 2007.
- ^ Replaced Tjeerd Herrema since April 1, 2009.
- ^ Replaced Lodewijk Asscher since November 28, 2012.
- ^ a b "Bureau Internationale Betrekkingen". www.amsterdam.nl. Bureau Internationale Betrekkingen, City of Amsterdam. Archived from the original on 2006-12-06. Retrieved 2007-04-05.