List of prime ministers of the Netherlands


The following is a list of prime ministers of the Netherlands since the inception of that office as a result of a revision of the Constitution of the Netherlands in 1848. The Prime Minister is the Chairman of the Council of Ministers; since 1945 he has held the Dutch title of minister-president van Nederland, also referred to as premier.
Mark Rutte is currently serving as the 50th and current Prime Minister of the Netherlands, having been appointed to the office for the first time on 14 October 2010.

List of prime ministers (since 1848)

Political parties:
;Christian democratic
;Liberal:
;Social democratic

Graphical timeline


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from: 25/03/1848 till: 17/05/1848 color:liberal text:"Gerrit Schimmelpenninck"
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from: 21/11/1848 till: 01/11/1849 color:liberal text:"Jacob de Kempenaer"
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from: 01/11/1849 till: 19/04/1853 color:liberal
from: 01/02/1862 till: 10/02/1866 color:liberal
from: 04/01/1871 till: 04/06/1872 color:liberal text:"Johan Rudolph Thorbecke"
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from: 23/02/1860 till: 14/03/1861 color:liberal text:"Floris Adriaan van Hall"
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from: 01/07/1856 till: 18/03/1858 color:chrdem text:"Justinus [van der Brugghen"
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from: 18/03/1858 till: 23/02/1860 color:chrdem text:"Jan Jacob Rochussen"
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from: 14/03/1861 till: 10/11/1861 color:liberal text:"Jacob van Zuylen van Nijevelt"
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from: 10/02/1866 till: 01/06/1866 color:liberal text:"Isaäc Dignus Fransen van de Putte"
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from: 01/06/1866 till: 04/06/1868 color:chrdem text:"Julius van Zuylen van Nijevelt"
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from: 04/06/1868 till: 04/01/1871 color:liberal text:"Pieter Philip van Bosse"
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from: 04/06/1872 till: 27/08/1874 color:liberal text:"Gerrit de Vries"
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from: 27/08/1874 till: 03/11/1877 color:chrdem
from: 22/04/1883 till: 20/04/1888 color:chrdem text:"Jan Heemskerk"
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from: 03/11/1877 till: 20/08/1879 color:liberal text:"Jan Kappeyne van de Coppello"
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from: 20/08/1879 till: 22/04/1883 color:chrdem text:"Julius van Zuylen van Nijevelt"
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from: 20/04/1888 till: 21/08/1891 color:chrdem text:"Aeneas Mackay Jr."
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from: 21/08/1891 till: 09/05/1894 color:liberal text:"Gijsbert van Tienhoven"
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from: 09/05/1894 till: 27/06/1897 color:liberal text:"Joan Röell"
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from: 27/06/1897 till: 01/08/1901 color:liberal text:"Nicolaas Pierson"
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from: 01/08/1901 till: 17/08/1905 color:chrdem text:"Abraham Kuyper"
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from: 17/08/1905 till: 12/02/1908 color:liberal text:"Theo de Meester"
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from: 12/02/1908 till: 29/08/1913 color:chrdem text:"Theo Heemskerk"
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from: 29/08/1913 till: 09/09/1918 color:liberal text:"Pieter Cort van der Linden"
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from: 09/09/1918 till: 04/08/1925 color:chrdem
from: 10/08/1929 till: 26/05/1933 color:chrdem text:"Charles de Ruijs Beerenbrouck"
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from: 04/08/1925 till: 08/03/1926 color:chrdem
from: 26/05/1933 till: 10/08/1939 color:chrdem text:"Hendrikus Colijn"
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from: 08/03/1926 till: 10/08/1929 color:chrdem
from: 10/08/1939 till: 03/09/1940 color:chrdem text:"Dirk Jan de Geer"
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from: 03/09/1940 till: 25/06/1945 color:chrdem text:"Pieter Sjoerds Gerbrandy"
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from: 25/06/1945 till: 09/02/1946 color:liberal
from: 09/02/1946 till: 03/06/1946 color:socdem text:"Willem Schermerhorn"
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from: 03/06/1946 till: 07/08/1948 color:chrdem
from: 22/12/1958 till: 19/05/1959 color:chrdem text:"Louis Beel"
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from: 07/08/1948 till: 22/12/1958 color:socdem text:"Willem Drees"
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from: 19/05/1959 till: 24/07/1963 color:chrdem text:"Jan de Quay"
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from: 24/07/1963 till: 14/04/1965 color:chrdem text:"Victor Marijnen"
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from: 14/04/1965 till: 22/11/1966 color:chrdem text:"Jo Cals"
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from: 22/11/1966 till: 05/04/1967 color:chrdem text:"Jelle Zijlstra"
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from: 05/04/1967 till: 06/07/1971 color:chrdem text:"Piet de Jong"
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from: 06/07/1971 till: 11/05/1973 color:chrdem text:"Barend Biesheuvel"
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from: 11/05/1973 till: 19/12/1977 color:socdem text:"Joop den Uyl"
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from: 19/12/1977 till: 04/11/1982 color:chrdem text:"Dries van Agt"
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from: 04/11/1982 till: 22/08/1994 color:chrdem text:"Ruud Lubbers"
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from: 22/08/1994 till: 22/07/2002 color:socdem text:"Wim Kok"
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from: 22/07/2002 till: 14/10/2010 color:chrdem text:"Jan Peter Balkenende"
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from: 14/10/2010 till: end color:liberal text:"Mark Rutte"