Christian Democratic Party (Netherlands)

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The Christian Democratic Party (in Dutch: Christen-Democratische Partij, CDP) was a

Labour Party and the Christian Democratic Appeal
.

Party History

Between 1894 and 1901

Anti Revolutionary Party (ARP).[1] He operated on the left of the ARP and he advocated increased government interference in the economy and the extension of suffrage. In 1901 Staalman was re-elected into the House of Representatives on an Anti-Revolutionary Ticket, but he was dissatisfied by the conservative course of the ARP. Staalman therefore sat as an independent Anti-Revolutionary. He was dissatisfied by the conservative composition and program of the cabinet Abraham Kuyper
had formed after the elections and did not support it.

Before the elections 1905 Staalman founded his own party the Christian Democratic Party to enter in the elections. He was unable to win a seat. Between 1909 and 1917 Staalman entered in several other elections. In 1917 Staalman was closely defeated by Pieter Oud for the Den Helder seat. In the 1918 elections, the first election with a system of proportional representation and male universal suffrage the threshold for admission to the House of Representatives was relatively low, one needed more than half of a percentage of the vote to be elected. Consequently, the CDP was elected with only 10,000 votes (that is .8% of vote). Staalman played only a minor role in parliament.

In the

Anti Revolutionary Party while others joined the newly founded Christian Democratic Union together with former members of the Christian Social Party and the League of Christian Socialists
.

Ideology & Issues

The CDP was a

reformist and rejected both class conflict
and the privileged position of some classes over others. Unlike the ARP it did not reject cooperation with non-religious parties.

It had a traditional leftwing program, involving the extension of suffrage to all

progressive taxation
and stronger rights for workers.

Representation

This table shows the election results of the CDP in elections to the House of Representatives, the Senate and the States-Provincial, as well as the party's political leadership: the fractievoorzitter, the chair of the parliamentary party and the lijsttrekker, the party's top candidate in the general election, these posts are normally taken by the party's leader.

Year
HoR
S
SP
Lijsttrekker
Fractievoorzitter
1918 1 0 0 Andries Staalman Andries Staalman
1919 1 0 2 no elections Andries Staalman
1920 1 0 2 no elections Andries Staalman
1921 1 0 2 no elections Andries Staalman
1922 0 0 2 Andries Staalman none
1923 0 0 1 none none
1924 0 0 1 none none
1925 0 0 1 unknown none
1926 0 0 1 none none

Provincial & municipal government

The party held several seats in

States-Provincial
.

References

  1. ISBN 978-90-12-06021-9
    . Retrieved 25 August 2013.
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