Rottedam II was an electoral district of the House of Representatives in the Netherlands from 1848 to 1850, and again from 1897 to 1918.
Profile Rotterdam II was created as a provisional single-member district in 1848, and included the neighbourhoods 1 and 9 through 14 in the municipality of Rotterdam. It was abolished again in 1850, when it merged with the district of Rotterdam I to form the two-member district of Rotterdam. The district was reconstituted in 1897, when Rotterdam was split into five single-member districts. This district was situated in the north of Rotterdam, corresponding with what is today part of the Noord borough.
Due to the area's urban development in the late 19th and early 20th century, Rotterdam II's electorate grew substantially during its second iteration, from 3,394 in 1897 to 17,453 to 1917.
The district of Rotterdam II was abolished upon the introduction of party-list proportional representation in 1918.
Members First creation Abram van Rijckevorsel was elected in the district of Rotterdam II in the inaugural 1848 election. Though political parties did not exist at this time, Van Rijckevorsel is classified as a "pragmatic" liberal.
ElectionMemberParty1848Abram van Rijckevorselscope="row"
Second creation
During its second iteration, Rotterdam II was consistently held, though sometimes narrowly, by the parliamentary left. The liberal Dirk de Klerk won the inaugural 1897 election, and represented the district until he was defeated by the SDAP candidate Hendrik Spiekman in 1913. Spiekman was re-elected in the June 1917 general election, but died in November of that year. Fellow social democrat Arie de Zeeuw was elected in a subsequent by-election, and represented the district until its abolition in 1918.
ElectionMemberParty1897Dirk de KlerkLib1901190519091913Hendrik SpiekmanSDAP19171917Arie de ZeeuwSDAP
Election results Elections in the 1840s
Elections in the 1890s
Elections in the 1900s
Elections in the 1910s
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