Leader |
Term of office |
Age as Leader |
Position(s) as Leader |
Further position(s) |
Lijsttrekker |
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Dr. Willem Drees (1886–1988) |
9 February 1946 – 22 December 1958 (12 years, 316 days) [1] |
59–72 |
Minister of Social Affairs (1945–1948) Deputy Prime Minister (1945–1948) Member of the House of Representatives (1946) (1948) (1952) (1956) Minister of General Affairs (1948–1958) Prime Minister (1948–1958) Minister of Colonial Affairs (1951) Minister of Finance (1952) |
Member of the House of Representatives (SDAP) (1933–1945) Parliamentary leader in the House of Representatives (SDAP) (1939–1945) Leader of the Social Democratic Workers' Party (1940–1946) Chairman of the Social Democratic Workers' Party (1943–1945) Minister of State (1958–1988) |
1946 |
1948 |
1952 |
1956 |
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Jaap Burger (1904–1986) |
22 December 1958 – 16 September 1962 (3 years, 268 days) [1] |
54–58 |
Member of the House of Representatives (1945–1962) Parliamentary leader in the House of Representatives (1952–1962) |
Minister for Return Policy (SDAP) (1943–1944) Minister of the Interior (SDAP) (1944–1945) Parliamentary leader in the House of Representatives (1951) Member of the Senate (1963–1970) Member of the European Parliament (1966–1970) Member of the Council of State (1970–1979) Minister of State (1975–1986) |
1959 |
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Dr. Anne Vondeling (1916–1979) |
16 September 1962 – 13 September 1966 (3 years, 362 days) [1] |
46–50 |
Member of the House of Representatives (1959–1965) Parliamentary leader in the House of Representatives (1962–1965) Minister of Finance (1965–1966) Deputy Prime Minister (1965–1966) |
Member of the House of Representatives (1946–1958) (1967–1979) Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Supplies (1958) Chairman of the Labour Party (1969–1971) Speaker of the House of Representatives (1972–1979) Member of the European Parliament (1979) |
1963 |
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Joop den Uyl (1919–1987) |
13 September 1966 – 21 July 1986 (19 years, 311 days) [1] |
47–66 |
Member of the House of Representatives (1967–1973) (1977) (1978–1981) (1982–1987) Parliamentary leader in the House of Representatives (1967–1973) (1977) (1978–1981) (1982–1986) Minister of General Affairs (1973–1977) Prime Minister (1973–1977) President of the European Council (1976) President of the Party of European Socialists (1980–1987) Minister of Social Affairs and Employment (1981–1982) Minister for Netherlands Antilles Affairs (1981–1982) Deputy Prime Minister (1981–1982) |
Member of the House of Representatives (1956–1963) Minister of Economic Affairs (1965–1966) |
1967 |
1971 |
1972 |
1977 |
1981 |
1982 |
1986 |
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Wim Kok (born 1938) |
21 July 1986 – 15 December 2001 (15 years, 147 days) [1] |
47–63 |
Member of the House of Representatives (1986–1989) (1994) (1998) Parliamentary leader in the House of Representatives (1986–1989) (1994) (1998) Minister of Finance (1989–1994) Deputy Prime Minister (1989–1994) Minister of General Affairs (1994–2002) Prime Minister (1994–2002) President of the European Council (1997) |
Minister of State (since 2003) President of the Club of Madrid (2009–2014) |
1989 |
1994 |
1998 |
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Ad Melkert (born 1956) |
15 December 2001 – 16 May 2002 (155 days) [1] |
45–46 |
Member of the House of Representatives (1998–2002) Parliamentary leader in the House of Representatives (1998–2002) |
Member of the House of Representatives (1986–1994) Minister of Social Affairs and Employment (1994–1998) Associate Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme (2006–2009) Special Representative of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (2009–2011) Member of the Council of State (since 2016) |
2002 |
Vacant (16 May 2002 – 12 November 2002) |
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Wouter Bos (born 1963) |
12 November 2002 – 25 April 2010 (7 years, 164 days) [1] |
39–46 |
Member of the House of Representatives (2002–2007) Parliamentary leader in the House of Representatives (2002–2007) Minister of Finance (2007–2010) Deputy Prime Minister (2007–2010) |
Member of the House of Representatives (1998–2000) State Secretary for Finance (2000–2002) |
2003 |
2006 |
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Dr. Job Cohen (born 1947) |
25 April 2010 – 20 February 2012 (1 year, 301 days) [1] |
62–64 |
Member of the House of Representatives (2010–2012) Parliamentary leader in the House of Representatives (2010–2012) |
State Secretary for Education and Sciences (1993–1994) Member of the Senate (1995–1998) Parliamentary leader in the Senate (1996–1998) State Secretary for Justice (1998–2001) Mayor of Amsterdam (2001–2010) |
2010 |
Vacant (20 February 2012 – 16 March 2012) |
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Diederik Samsom (born 1971) |
16 March 2012 – 10 December 2016 (4 years, 269 days) [1] |
40–45 |
Member of the House of Representatives (2003–2016) Parliamentary leader in the House of Representatives (2012–2016) |
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2012 |
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Dr. Lodewijk Asscher (born 1974) |
10 December 2016 – Incumbent (1 year, 307 days) [1] |
42– |
Minister of Social Affairs and Employment (2012–2017) Deputy Prime Minister (2012–2017) Member of the House of Representatives (since 2017) Parliamentary leader in the House of Representatives (since 2017) |
Mayor of Amsterdam (2010) |
2017 |