List of political parties in the Netherlands

This article lists political parties in the Netherlands.

The country has a multi-party system with numerous political parties, and any one party has little chance of gaining power alone; parties work with each other to form coalition governments.

The lower house of the legislature, the House of Representatives, is elected by a national party-list system of proportional representation.

[1] No party has come close to winning a majority of seats since the introduction of proportional representation in 1918.

However, there is a broad consensus on the basic principles of the political system, with all parties having to adjust their goals to some extent in order to have a realistic chance at being part of the government.