List of members of the House of Representatives of the Netherlands

The List of members of the House of Representatives (2006 - present) is the list of members of the House of Representatives of the Netherlands , the lower house of the Dutch Parliament, during its current session. The members elected in the latest Dutch general elections on 22 November 2006 took their seats on 30 November 2006. There has been a sizable number of mutations since due to the particular nature of the Dutch constitutional system. New members are supplied from their party lists so the resignation of individual members' seats does not change the balance of power in the Dutch Parliament.

Elected members from 22 November 2006

The parties are sorted on the basis of the sizes of their parliamentary parties. Candidates elected on the basis of preference votes are listed first, followed by the other members elected - as determined by their place on the party lists. Members elected solely on the basis of preference votes are marked (**), other members having acquired sufficient preference votes but who would have been elected on the basis of their position on the party list, have been marked (*)

Christian Democratic Appeal (41 seats)

Labour Party (33 seats)

Socialist Party (25 seats)

People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (21 seats)

Party for Freedom (9 seats)

GreenLeft (7 seats)

ChristianUnion (6 seats)

Democrats 66 (3 seats)

• Alexander Pechtold (*)
• Fatma Koşer Kaya (**)
• Boris van der Ham (*)

Party for the Animals (2 seats)

• Marianne Thieme (*)
• Esther Ouwehand

Reformed Political Party (2 seats)

• Bas van der Vlies (*)
• Kees van der Staaij

Proud of the Netherlands (1 seat)

• Rita Verdonk (*) (Formerly a member of the VVD)

Changes since 30 November 2006

Changes in 2006

• 30 November 2006: Tiny Kox (Socialist Party) does not take his seat. In his place, Hugo Polderman takes the oath on 5 December 2006.

Changes in 2007

• 21 February 2007: Jan Peter Balkenende, Maxime Verhagen, Maria van der Hoeven, Piet Hein Donner, Gerda Verburg and Cees van der Knaap (all CDA), Wouter Bos, Nebahat Albayrak, Jet Bussemaker, Sharon Dijksma, Bert Koenders en Frans Timmermans (all Labour Party) and André Rouvoet and Tineke Huizinga-Heringa (ChristianUnion) become either minister or junior minister in the Fourth Balkenende cabinet triggering their resignations from the House of Representatives.
• 1 March 2007: Joop Wijn (CDA) decides to end his political career and resigns from the House of Representatives.
• 1 March 2007: The seats vacated by Joop Wijn and members of the Cabinet are taken up by Ans Willemse-van der Ploeg, Corien Jonker, Eddy Bilder, Raymond Knops, Sander de Rouwe, Madeleine van Toorenburg and Antoinette Vietsch (CDA), Khadija Arib, Paul Tang, Margot Kraneveldt, Pierre Heijnen, Mei Li Vos en Marjo van Dijken (Labour Party) and Esmé Wiegman-van Meppelen Scheppink and Ed Anker (ChristianUnion).
• 20 November 2007: Ferd Crone (Labour Party) resigns from the House of Representatives after being nominated mayor of Leeuwarden. Anja Timmer takes the oath on the same day.

Changes in 2008

• 1 January 2008: Aleid Wolfsen (Labour) resigns his parliamentary seat after being appointed mayor of Utrecht. He was succeeded on 15 January Jan Boelhouwer.
• 15 January 2008: Rosita van Gijlswijk (SP) resigns her parliamentary seat in order to take up a position in the Socialist Party Board. Farshad Bashir takes her seat the same day. Being twenty years and one day of age he is the youngest ever member of the House of Representatives.
• 23 January 2008: Jules Kortenhorst (CDA) resigns his seat to become director of the European Climate Foundation. Margreeth Smilde, formerly a member of the House of Representatives from 2002 to 2006 takes the oath the same day.
• 8 April 2008: Sabine Uitslag (CDA) becomes a temporary member of parliament with Mirjam Sterk taking four months of maternity leave. Her membership of the House of Representatives expires automatically with Mirjam Sterk's return on 29 July 2008.
• 8 April 2008: Ron Abel (SP) resigns his seat for health reasons. He is succeeded on 22 April 2008 by Manja Smits.
• 17 April 2008: Nicolien van Vroonhoven-Kok (CDA) takes maternity leave. Her seat is taken by Ine Aasted Madsen until 17 August 2008.
• 2 September 2008: Wijnand Duyvendak (GreenLeft) resigns his seat after revelations concerning his past as a political activist. Karien van Gennip (CDA) leaves after taking up a management position with ING and Roland Kortenhorst (CDA) resigns in order to start up a new business venture. Jolande Sap takes Duyvendak's seat. Sabine Uitslag and Ine Aasted Madsen take the oath as permanent members of the House of Representatives.
• 2 September 2008: Mariko Peters (GreenLeft) takes maternity leave. Isabelle Diks takes her seat until 21 December 2008.
• 18 December 2008: Henk Kamp (VVD) resigns his seat after being appointed as commissioner for Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba. He is succeeded by Ton Elias on the same day.

Changes in 2009

• 1 January 2009: Nathalie de Rooij (SP) leaves because of personal reasons. She is succeeded on 13 Januari by Trix de Roos.
• 10 March 2009: Jos Hessels (CDA) resigns his seat because he has been appointed member of the States Deputed for Limburg. His successor Hein Pieper takes the oath on 17 March 2009.
• 1 May 2009: Jacques Tichelaar (Labour Party) resigns his seat after being nominated Queen's Commissioner of Drenthe. He is succeeded by Patricia Linhard.
• 14 July 2009: Hans van Baalen (VVD), Wim van de Camp (CDA) and Barry Madlener (PVV) became member of the European Parliament after the elections in June and therefore resign their seats. Cees Meeuwis (VVD), Rendert Algra (CDA) en Richard de Mos (PVV) take the oath on 1 September 2009.
• 17 November 2009: Arend Jan Boekestijn (VVD) resigns his seat after statements about the confidential meeting between Members of the House of Representatives and Queen Beatrix. He is not yet succeeded.