Historical rankings of Prime Ministers of the Netherlands

NRC Handelsblad

Willem Drees is highly rated for his post-war leadership and social reforms.

In 2013 newspaper NRC Handelsblad conducted two opinion polls, one with fifty experts and one with their readers. The polls asked respondents to give their opinion on who was the best Prime Minister of the Netherlands since 1900.^[1]

Ranking	Prime Minister	Term	Political Party
1st	Willem Drees	1948–1958	Labour Party
2nd	Ruud Lubbers	1982–1994	Christian Democratic Appeal
3rd	Pieter Cort van der Linden	1913–1918	Independent (Liberal)
4th	Piet de Jong	1967–1971	Catholic People's Party
5th	Joop den Uyl	1973–1977	Labour Party
6th	Wim Kok	1994–2002	Labour Party
7th	Hendrikus Colijn	1925–1926 / 1933–1939	Anti Revolutionary Party
8th	Wim Schermerhorn	1945–1946	Labour Party
9th	Abraham Kuyper	1901–1905	Anti Revolutionary Party
10th	Jan Peter Balkenende	2002–2010	Christian Democratic Appeal

Maurice de Hond

An opinion poll conducted by Maurice de Hond from the polling site Peil.nl had the following results.^[2]

Ranking	Prime Minister	Term	Political party
1st	Ruud Lubbers	1982–1994	Christian Democratic Appeal
2nd	Wim Kok	1994–2002	Labour Party
3rd	Willem Drees	1948–1958	Labour Party
4th	Joop den Uyl	1973–1977	Labour Party
5th	Mark Rutte	2010–Incumbent	People's Party for Freedom and Democracy
6th	Jan Peter Balkenende	2002–2010	Christian Democratic Appeal

Ruud Lubbers is highly rated for his cold-war leadership and economic growth.

VPRO

In 2006 Dutch Public broadcaster VPRO conducted an opinion poll for the best Prime Minister of the Netherlands after World War II.^[3]

Ranking	Prime Minister	Term	Political Party
1st	Willem Drees	1948–1958	Labour Party
2nd	Joop den Uyl	1973–1977	Labour Party
3rd	Ruud Lubbers	1982–1994	Christian Democratic Appeal
4th	Wim Kok	1994–2002	Labour Party
5th	Jan Peter Balkenende	2002–2010	Christian Democratic Appeal
6th	Piet de Jong	1967–1971	Catholic People's Party
7th	Dries van Agt	1977–1982	Christian Democratic Appeal
8th	Jelle Zijlstra	1966–1967	Anti Revolutionary Party
9th	Wim Schermerhorn	1945–1946	Labour Party
10th	Jo Cals	1965–1966	Catholic People's Party
11th	Barend Biesheuvel	1971–1973	Anti Revolutionary Party
12th	Jan de Quay	1959–1963	Catholic People's Party
13th	Louis Beel	1946–1948 1958-1959	Catholic People's Party
14th	Victor Marijnen	1963–1965	Catholic People's Party

States General of the Netherlands

Pieter Cort van der Linden is highly rated for keeping the Netherlands neutral during the World War I.

An opinion poll conducted by the States General of the Netherlands in 2002 had the following results for the best and the worst Prime Minister of the twentieth century. Of the 225 MPs, 200 responded. Of them, 110 (49 per cent of MPs) handed in a list, the others did not participate for various reasons. The participation by political parties is as follows: Labour Party 57%, People's Party for Freedom and Democracy 44%, Christian Democratic Appeal 43%, Democrats 66 39%, GreenLeft 58%, Socialist Party 43%, Reformed Political Party 20%, ChristianUnion 44% and the Independent Senate Group Group 100%.^[4]

Best Ranking	Prime Minister	Term	Political party
1st	Pieter Cort van der Linden	1913-1918	Independent (Liberal)
2nd	Willem Drees	1948-1958	Labour Party
3rd	Joop den Uyl	1973–1977	Labour Party
4th	Ruud Lubbers	1982–1994	Christian Democratic Appeal
5th	Wim Kok	1994-2002	Labour Party
6th	Jelle Zijlstra	1966-1967	Anti Revolutionary Party
7th	Hendrikus Colijn	1925–1926 / 1933-1939	Anti Revolutionary Party
	Wim Schermerhorn	1945-1946	Labour Party
8th	Piet de Jong	1967-1971	Catholic People's Party
9th	Charles Ruijs de Beerenbrouck	1918–1925 / 1929-1933	Roman-Catholic State Party
	Pieter Sjoerds Gerbrandy	1940-1945	Anti Revolutionary Party
	Barend Biesheuvel	1971-1973	Anti Revolutionary Party
	Dries van Agt	1977-1982	Christian Democratic Appeal

Worst Ranking	Prime Minister	Term	Political party
1st	Joop den Uyl	1973–1977	Labour Party
2nd	Dirk Jan de Geer	1926–1929 / 1939-1940	Christian Historical Union
3rd	Dries van Agt	1977-1982	Christian Democratic Appeal
4th	Hendrikus Colijn	1925–1926 / 1933-1939	Anti Revolutionary Party
5th	Ruud Lubbers	1982–1994	Christian Democratic Appeal
6th	Victor Marijnen	1963-1965	Catholic People's Party
	Wim Kok	1994-2002	Labour Party
7th	Pieter Sjoerds Gerbrandy	1940-1945	Anti Revolutionary Party
	Jan de Quay	1959-1963	Catholic People's Party
8th	Wim Schermerhorn	1945-1946	Labour Party
	Willem Drees	1948-1958	Labour Party
	Jo Cals	1965-1966	Catholic People's Party
	Barend Biesheuvel	1971-1973	Anti Revolutionary Party

References

↑ (Dutch) NRC-enquête: Drees en Lubbers beste premiers sinds 1900, NRC Handelsblad, September 28, 2013
↑ (Dutch) Kiezers oneens met Rutte: niet beste kabinet sinds oorlog, BN DeStem, May 26, 2013
↑ (Dutch) Willem Drees gekozen tot ‘Dé premier na WO II’, Geschiedenis24.nl, January 15, 2006
↑ (Dutch) Kamerleden kiezen de beste en de slechtste minister-president van de twintigste eeu, Historischnieuwsblad.nl, February 2, 2002

Prime Ministers of the Netherlands

Schimmelpenninck De Kempenaer Thorbecke Van Hall Van der Brugghen Rochussen Van Hall Ja. Van Zuylen van Nijevelt Van Heemstra Thorbecke Fransen van de Putte Ju. Van Zuylen van Nijevelt Van Bosse Thorbecke De Vries J. Heemskerk Kappeyne van de Coppello Van Lynden van Sandenburg J. Heemskerk Mackay Van Tienhoven Roëll Pierson Kuyper De Meester T. Heemskerk Cort van der Linden Ruijs de Beerenbrouck Colijn De Geer Ruijs de Beerenbrouck Colijn De Geer Gerbrandy Schermerhorn Beel Drees Beel De Quay Marijnen Cals Zijlstra De Jong Biesheuvel Den Uyl Van Agt Lubbers Kok Balkenende Rutte

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