This is a list of Dutch cabinet formations. This includes attempts to form or continue with a cabinet after a cabinet crisis.
In most cases, a cabinet formation is started after a general election after which a majority cabinet is sought. In some cases it results in a minority cabinet. After the fall of a cabinet, a new start can be made with part of the fallen cabinet. Then there may be a rump cabinet, which is also often a minority cabinet.
The De Kempenaer-Donker Curtius cabinet succeeded the preceding cabinet in 1848 without a cabinet formation.
Formation | Start[a] | End[b] | Length (days)[c] |
Cabinet | Cabinet type | Ref. |
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1848 | 23 March 1848 | 25 March 1848 | 3 | Schimmelpenninck | royal | [2] |
1849 | 20 September 1849 | 1 November 1849 | 43 | Thorbecke I | majority | [3] |
1853 | 16 April 1853 | 19 April 1853 | 4 | Van Hall/Donker Curtius | royal | [4] |
1856 | 1 June 1856 | 1 July 1856 | 47 | Van der Brugghen | royal | [5] |
1858 | 3 March 1858 | 18 March 1858 | 16 | Rochussen | royal | [6] |
1860 | 17 February 1860 | 23 February 1860 | 7 | Van Hall/Van Heemstra | royal | [7] |
1861 | 16 February 1861 | 14 March 1861 | 27 | Van Zuylen van Nijevelt/Van Heemstra | royal | [8] |
1862 | 2 January 1862 | 1 February 1862 | 21 | Thorbecke II | majority | [9] |
Jan-Feb 1866 | 29 January 1866 | 10 February 1866 | 13 | Fransen van de Putte | royal | [10] |
May-Jun 1866 | 24 May 1866 | 1 June 1866 | 9 | Van Zuylen van Nijevelt | royal | [11] |
1868 | 17 April 1868 | 4 June 1868 | 49 | Van Bosse/Fock | royal | [12] |
1870-1871 | 24 November 1870 | 4 January 1871 | 42 | Thorbecke III | royal | [13] |
1872 | 25 June 1872 | 6 July 1872 | 12 | De Vries/Fransen van de Putte | royal | [14] |
1874 | 14 July 1874 | 27 August 1874 | 45 | Heemskerk/Van Lynden van Sandenburg | royal | [15] |
1877 | 16 October 1877 | 3 November 1877 | 19 | Kappeyne van de Coppello | majority | [16] |
1879 | 12 July 1879 | 20 August 1879 | 40 | Van Lynden van Sandenburg | royal | [17] |
1882 | 10 May 1882 | 12 August 1882 | 95 | |||
1883 | 4 March 1883 | 23 April 1883 | 51 | J. Heemskerk | royal | [18] |
1888 | 4 April 1888 | 21 April 1888 | 18 | Mackay | [19] | |
1891 | 24 June 1891 | 21 August 1891 | 58 | Van Tienhoven | [20] | |
1894 | 25 April 1894 | 9 May 1894 | 15 | Röell | royal | [21] |
1897 | 26 June 1897 | 27 July 1897 | 32 | Pierson | [22] | |
1901 | 28 June 1901 | 1 August 1901 | 35 | Kuyper | [23] | |
1905 | 29 June 1905 | 17 August 1905 | 50 | De Meester | minority | [24] |
1907 | 12 February 1907 | 21 March 1907 | 38 | |||
1907-1908 | 25 December 1907 | 12 February 1908 | 50 | T. Heemskerk | [25] | |
1913 | 26 June 1913 | 29 August 1913 | 65 | Cort van der Linden | royal | [26] |
1918 | 4 July 1918 | 9 September 1918 | 68 | Ruijs de Beerenbrouck I | [27] | |
1921 | 22 June 1921 | 26 July 1921 | 35 | |||
1922 | 6 July 1922 | 18 September 1922 | 75 | Ruijs de Beerenbrouck II | [28] | |
1923-1924 | 26 October 1923 | 7 January 1924 | 73 | |||
1925 | 2 July 1925 | 4 August 1925 | 34 | Colijn I | [29] | |
1925-1926 | 24 November 1925 | 8 March 1926 | 105 | De Geer I | royal | [30] |
1929 | 3 July 1929 | 10 August 1929 | 39 | Ruijs de Beerenbrouck III | extraparliamentary | [31] |
1933 | 27 April 1933 | 26 May 1933 | 30 | Colijn II | extraparliamentary | [32] |
1935 | 26 July 1935 | 31 July 1935 | 6 | Colijn III | [33] | |
1937 | 27 May 1937 | 24 June 1937 | 29 | Colijn IV | [34] | |
Jun-Jul 1939 | 30 June 1939 | 25 July 1939 | 26 | Colijn V | royal | [35] |
Aug 1939 | 4 August 1939 | 10 August 1939 | 7 | De Geer II | royal | [36] |
1940 | 28 August 1940 | 3 September 1940 | 7 | Gerbrandy I | royal | [37] |
1941 | 1 July 1941 | 27 July 1941 | 27 | Gerbrandy II | royal | |
Feb 1945 | Gerbrandy III | royal | [38] | |||
May-Jun 1945 | 9 May 1945 | 24 June 1945 | 47 | Schermerhorn-Drees | royal | [39] |
1946 | 18 May 1946 | 3 July 1946 | 47 | Beel I | majority | [40][41] |
1948 | 8 July 1948 | 7 August 1948 | 31 | Drees-Van Schaik | majority | [42][43] |
1951 | 29 January 1951 | 15 March 1951 | 44 | Drees I | majority | [44][45] |
1952 | 26 June 1952 | 2 September 1952 | 69 | Drees II | majority | [46][47] |
1955 | [48] | |||||
1956 | 14 June 1956 | 13 October 1956 | 121 | Drees III | majority | [49][50] |
1958 | 13 December 1958 | 22 December 1958 | 10 | Beel II | rump | [51][52] |
1959 | 13 March 1959 | 19 May 1959 | 67 | De Quay | majority | [53][54] |
1960-1961 | [55] | |||||
1963 | 16 May 1963 | 24 July 1963 | 70 | Marijnen | majority | [56][57] |
1965 | 2 March 1965 | 14 April 1965 | 44 | Cals | majority | [58][59] |
1966 | 18 October 1966 | 22 November 1966 | 35 | Zijlstra | rump | [60][61] |
1967 | 16 February 1967 | 5 April 1967 | 49 | De Jong | majority | [62][63] |
1971 | 29 April 1971 | 6 July 1971 | 69 | Biesheuvel I | majority | [64][65] |
1972 | 19 July 1972 | 9 August 1972 | 11 | Biesheuvel II | rump | [66][67] |
1972-1973 | 30 November 1972 | 11 May 1973 | 163 | Den Uyl | majority | [68][69] |
1977 | 26 May 1977 | 19 December 1977 | 208 | Van Agt I | majority | [70][71] |
1981 | 27 May 1981 | 11 September 1981 | 108 | Van Agt II | majority | [72][73] |
16 October 1981 | 4 November 1981 | 19 | ||||
May-Jun 1982 | 14 May 1982 | 29 May 1982 | 17 | Van Agt III | rump | [74][75] |
Sep-Nov 1982 | 9 September 1982 | 4 November 1982 | 57 | Lubbers I | majority | [76][77] |
1986 | 22 May 1986 | 14 July 1986 | 54 | Lubbers II | majority | [78][79] |
1989 | 7 September 1989 | 7 November 1989 | 62 | Lubbers III | majority | [80][81] |
1994 | 4 May 1994 | 22 August 1994 | 111 | Kok I | majority | [82][83] |
1998 | 6 May 1998 | 3 August 1998 | 89 | Kok II | majority | [84][85] |
1999 | 20 May 1999 | 8 June 1999 | 20 | [86][87] | ||
2002 | 16 May 2002 | 22 July 2002 | 68 | Balkenende I | majority | [88][89] |
2003 | 23 January 2003 | 27 May 2003 | 122 | Balkenende II | majority | [90][91] |
2006 | 30 June 2006 | 7 July 2006 | 7 | Balkenende III | rump | [92] |
2006-2007 | 23 November 2006 | 22 February 2007 | 90 | Balkenende IV | majority | [93][94] |
2010 | 10 June 2010 | 14 October 2010 | 127 | Rutte I | confidence and supply | [95][96] |
2012 | 13 September 2012 | 5 November 2012 | 54 | Rutte II | majority | [97][98] |
2017 | 16 March 2017 | 26 October 2017 | 225 | Rutte III | majority | [99] |
2021-2022 | 18 March 2021 | 10 January 2022 | 299 | Rutte IV | majority | [1] |
2023-2024 | 23 November 2023 | 159 | [100] |