Hervormd Gereformeerde Staatspartij

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The Hervormd Gereformeerde Staatspartij (in English: Reformed Reformed State Party (see

.

Party history

The HGS was founded in 1921 as split from the Protestant

SGP

from the mainstream Protestant ARP.

The party contested the

.

After the war former members of the HGS founded the Protestant Union, with several former members of the CHU. It entered in the 1946 elections but was unable to win any seats. It continued to exist as a study club until the 1980s

Name

The party's name, Hervormd Gereformeerde Staatspartij, is rather difficult to translate because it refers to two kinds of Protestantism, the mainstream Dutch Reformed Church (Nederlands Hervormde Kerk), hence Hervormd and Reformed Churches in the Netherlands (Gereformeerde Kerken Nederland), hence Gereformeerd. It sought to unite these two religions in one national Protestant church. The party was called staatspartij because it represented the general interest and not some partial interest. The acronym was taken by the party's founders to also mean "Hear Gods Voice" (Hoor Gods Stem).

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The HGS was an orthodox Protestant party with a strong nationalist tendency, based on two core ideas: virulent anti-Catholicism and theocracy.

The party wanted to, in their view, return the Netherlands to its original form: a Protestant nation, based on principles of the

in which the Dutch Reformed Church was split as a historic mistake as it weakened the power of the Protestant part of the population.

In its manifesto of principles it explained their view on the

. Both in their view were in contradiction with the eight commandment ("Thou shalt not steal").

Practically this meant that the party was opposed to government control of society, like

social security

.

Representation

This table show the HGS's results of the HGS in elections to the

Senate

, as well as the party's political leadership: the fractievoorzitter, is the chair of the parliamentary party and the lijsttrekker is the party's top candidate in the general election, these posts are normally taken by the party's leader.

Year	HoR	S	Lijsttrekker	Fractievoorzitter
1925	1	0	Casper Lingbeek	Casper Lingbeek
1926	1	0	no elections	Casper Lingbeek
1927	1	0	no elections	Casper Lingbeek
1928	1	0	no elections	Casper Lingbeek
1929	1	0	Casper Lingbeek	Casper Lingbeek
1930	1	0	no elections	Casper Lingbeek
1930	1	0	no elections	Casper Lingbeek
1931	1	0	no elections	Casper Lingbeek
1932	1	0	no elections	Bate Peereboom
1933	1	0	no elections	Casper Lingbeek
1934	1	0	no elections	Casper Lingbeek
1935	1	0	no elections	Casper Lingbeek
1936	1	0	no elections	Casper Lingbeek

Municipal and provincial government

The party also held one to two seats

.

Electorate

Support for the HGS was religiously based. Many of the party's supporters came from was supported by the Confessional Union, the orthodox wing of the Dutch Reformed Church.

Linked organisations

The party's youth movement was called the Jonge Geuzen (Young Beggars). Its bi-weekly periodical was the State and Church.

Relations to other parties

The HGS was methodically isolated, and isolated itself. Because of its anti-Catholicism it was opposed to the Catholic

. The CHU and to a lesser extent the ARP were reminded by the party of their original ideals, they rejected the ideological orthodoxy of the HGS however.