| Leader
|
Term of office
|
Age as Leader
|
Position(s) as Leader
|
Further position(s)
|
Former
Affiliation
|
Professional
Background
|
Lijsttrekker
|
|
|
|
Willem Drees
(1886–1988)
|
9 February 1946 –
22 December 1958
(12 years, 316 days)
[Retired]
|
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)
|
Social Democratic
Workers' Party
|
Accountant
civil servant
Historian
Author
|
1946
|
| 1948
|
| 1952
|
| 1956
|
|
|
|
Jaap Burger
(1904–1986)
|
22 December 1958 –
16 September 1962
(3 years, 268 days)
[Resigned]
|
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)
|
Social Democratic
Workers' Party
|
Lawyer
|
1959
|
|
|
|
Dr.
Anne Vondeling
(1916–1979)
|
16 September 1962 –
13 September 1966
(3 years, 362 days)
[Resigned]
|
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)
|
Free-thinking
Democratic League
|
Agronomist
Agricultural engineer
Civil servant
professor
|
1963
|
|
|
|
Joop den Uyl
(1919–1987)
|
13 September 1966 –
21 July 1986
(19 years, 311 days)
[Retired]
|
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)
|
Anti-Revolutionary
Party
|
Economist
Civil servant
Journalist
|
1967
|
| 1971
|
| 1972
|
| 1977
|
| 1981
|
| 1982
|
| 1986
|
|
|
|
Wim Kok
(1938–2018)
|
21 July 1986 –
15 December 2001
(15 years, 147 days)
[Retired]
|
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
(2003–2018)
President of the
Club of Madrid
(2009–2014)
|
|
Trade union leader
|
1989
|
| 1994
|
| 1998
|
|
|
|
Ad Melkert
(born 1956)
|
15 December 2001 –
16 May 2002
(155 days)
[Resigned]
|
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)
|
Political Party
of Radicals
|
Nonprofit director
Activist
|
2002
|
Vacant
(16 May 2002 – 12 November 2002)
|
|
|
|
Wouter Bos
(born 1963)
|
12 November 2002 –
25 April 2010
(7 years, 164 days)
[Retired]
|
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)
|
|
Businessman
Economist
Management consultant
|
2003
|
| 2006
|
|
|
|
Dr.
Job Cohen
(born 1947)
|
25 April 2010 –
20 February 2012
(1 year, 301 days)
[Resigned]
|
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)
|
|
Jurist
Researcher
Author
Professor
|
2010
|
Vacant
(20 February 2012 – 16 March 2012)
|
|
|
|
Diederik
Samsom
(born 1971)
|
16 March 2012 –
10 December 2016
(4 years, 269 days)
[Defeated]
|
40–45
|
Member of the House
of Representatives
(2003–2016)
Parliamentary leader in the
House of Representatives
(2012–2016)
|
|
|
Nonprofit director
Activist
Environmentalist
Political consultant
|
2012
|
|
|
|
Dr.
Lodewijk
Asscher
(born 1974)
|
10 December 2016 –
14 January 2021
(4 years, 35 days)
[Resigned]
|
42–46
|
Minister of Social Affairs
and Employment
(2012–2017)
Deputy Prime Minister
(2012–2017)
Member of the House
of Representatives
(2017–2021)
Parliamentary leader in the
House of Representatives
(2017–2012)
|
Ad interim
Mayor of Amsterdam
(2010)
|
|
Jurist
Researcher
Professor
|
2017
|
Vacant
(14 January 2021 – 18 January 2021)
|
|
|
|
Lilianne
Ploumen
(born 1962)
|
23 January 2021 –
12 April 2022
(1 year, 79 days)
[Resigned]
|
58–59
|
Member of the House
of Representatives
(2017–2022)
Parliamentary leader in the
House of Representatives
(2021–2022)
|
Chair of the
Labour Party
(2007–2012)
Minister for Foreign Trade
and Development
Cooperation
(2012–2017)
|
GreenLeft
|
Nonprofit director
Activist
Social worker
|
2021
|
Vacant
(12 April 2022 – 11 June 2022)
|
|
|
|
Attje Kuiken
(born 1977)
|
11 June 2022 –
22 August 2023
[Retired]
|
44
|
Member of the House
of Representatives
(2010-2023)
Parliamentary leader in the
House of Representatives
(2022-2023)
|
Member of the House
of Representatives
(2006–2010)
Parliamentary leader in the
House of Representatives
(2016–2017)
|
|
Civil servant
|
|
|
|
Frans Timmermans
(born 1961)
|
22 August - Incumbent
|
62
|
Member of the House
of Representatives
(since 2023)
Parliamentary leader in the
House of Representatives
(2023 since)
|
European Commissioner for Climate Action
(2019-2023)
Minister of Foreign Affairs
(2012-2014)
Member of the House
of Representatives
(1998-2007, 2010-2012)
|
|
Diplomat
|
2023
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