General elections were held in the

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on 30 November and 4 December 1848.

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& Philip Stöver (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p1395 Held immediately after the Constitutional Reform of 1848, they were the first direct elections to the

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, and were the first to elect a

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to which government ministers would be responsible. Voting was restricted to men over the age of 23, and who paid a certain level of taxation. This limited the franchise to 55,728 people, roughly 11% of the male population over 23, or 2.5% of the total population of the country.Nohlen & Stöver, p1384 Candidates were elected in districts in a

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; if no candidate received over 50% of the vote in the first round, the top two candidates would face a run-off. The districts had one MP for every 45,000 inhabitants. As there were no official political parties until 1879,Nohlen & Stöver, p1393 all candidates were nominally independents.

Results

By district

Johan Heinrich Neuman - Johan Rudolf Thorbecke

References

{{Dutch general elections General elections in the Netherlands

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