The House of Representatives is the lower house of the bicameral parliament of the Netherlands,the States General,the other one being the Senate. It has 150 seats,which are filled through elections using party-list proportional representation. The house is located in the Binnenhof in The Hague;it has temporarily moved to the former building of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs at Bezuidenhoutseweg 67 in The Hague while the Binnenhof is being renovated.
Early general elections were held in the Netherlands on 29 November 1972. The Labour Party (PvdA) remained the largest party,winning 43 of the 150 seats in the House of Representatives.
Dion Jean Gilbert Graus is a Dutch politician. He has been an MP on behalf of the Party for Freedom since 30 November 2006.
Ronald Hans Anton Plasterk is a Dutch retired politician of the Labour Party (PvdA). He has a PhD degree in biology,specialising in molecular genetics. He is founder and CEO of Frame Cancer Therapeutics. He was appointed professor at the University of Amsterdam in September 2018.
Gerardina Alida "Gerdi" Verbeet is a retired Dutch politician and political consultant who served as Speaker of the House of Representatives from 6 December 2006 to 19 September 2012. A member of the Labour Party (PvdA),she is the second officeholder elected independently by the House of Representatives after her predecessor Frans Weisglas. She served as a member of the House of Representatives from 26 July 2002 to 19 September 2012 and previously from 11 December 2001 until 22 May 2002.
Eduard van Thijn was a Dutch politician of the Labour Party (PvdA) and historian. He was a member of the Municipal Council of Amsterdam (1962–1971),member of the House of Representatives,Minister of the Interior,Mayor of Amsterdam (1983–1994),and member of the Senate (1999–2007).
Mei Li Vos is a Dutch politician,former trade unionist and editorialist. A member of the Labour Party (PvdA),she was a member of the House of Representatives from 1 March 2007 to 17 June 2010 and again from 20 September 2012 until 23 March 2017. She has been a member of the Senate since 11 June 2019,serving as parliamentary leader of the PvdA group until 2023,and First Vice-President of the Senate since then.
Esther Ouwehand is a Dutch politician and former marketing manager serving as leader of the Party for the Animals and its parliamentary group in the House of Representatives since 2019. She has been a member of the House of Representatives since the 2006 election with two interruptions.
General elections were held in the Netherlands on Wednesday 9 June 2010. This was triggered by the fall of Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende's fourth cabinet on 20 February with Queen Beatrix accepting the resignation of the Labour Party (PvdA) ministers on 23 February. The conservative-liberal People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD),led by Mark Rutte,won the largest number of seats in the House of Representatives while the social-democratic PvdA,led by Job Cohen,came a narrow second. The election was also noted for the rise of the Party for Freedom (PVV),which came third,led by controversial politician Geert Wilders. On the other hand,Balkenende's Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA) saw a poor result,losing half its seats and dropping from first to fourth place. The Socialist Party (SP) also lost seats. Notably,the 31 seats won by the VVD was its most since 1998,and the one-seat margin between the VVD and PvdA is the closest on record.
Kees Verhoeven is a Dutch politician of the Democrats 66 (D66) party,serving as a member of the House of Representatives since 17 June 2010. A geographer by occupation,he was first elected during the 2010 Dutch general election and was reelected in the 2012 and 2017 elections. He focuses on matters of economic affairs,housing,spatial planning and infrastructure.
Jesse Feras Klaver is a Dutch politician serving as a member of the House of Representatives since 2010 and Leader of GroenLinks since 2015. Prior to this,he chaired the youth union of the Christian National Trade Union Federation from 2009 to 2010.
Vera Alida Bergkamp is a retired Dutch politician. A member of the Democrats 66 (D66) party,she served as Speaker of the House of Representatives from 7 April 2021 and 5 December 2023. She was a member of the House of Representatives between 20 September 2012 and 5 December 2023.
Michiel van Nispen is a Dutch politician,he has been a member of the House of Representatives of the Netherlands for the Socialist Party since 2 April 2014,when he replaced Jan de Wit.
Henri Swinkels is a Dutch politician of the Socialist Party. He served as a temporary member of the House of Representatives of the Netherlands in 2014. Between 2015 and 2019 he was a member of the Provincial-Executive of North Brabant.
Barbara Catharina Kathmann is a Dutch politician,serving as a member of the House of Representatives since 2021. She is a member of the Labour Party (PvdA). Before being elected to the House,she served as a municipal councilor and alderwoman in her hometown Rotterdam. Kathmann has also worked in media and at two nonprofit organizations.
Alexander Robert Hammelburg is a Dutch politician of the Democrats 66 (D66). He has been a member of the House of Representatives since the 2021 general election. He previously worked as a lobbyist for COC Nederland and held a seat in the municipal council of Amsterdam.
Laura Bromet is a Dutch politician of GroenLinks and a member of the House of Representatives since 2018. Her focus has been on food quality,agriculture,fisheries,nature,the Dutch nitrogen crisis,and the royal family since her re-election in 2023.
Margot Kraneveldt is a Dutch politician who has served as an MP in the Dutch House of Representatives.
Raoul Julian White is a Suriname-born Dutch politician representing the GroenLinks who was elected to the House of Representatives in the 2023 Dutch general election. His focus has been on kingdom relations,slavery in the Netherlands,livable neighborhoods,and small and medium-sized enterprises.
