50PLUS

50PLUS
Leader	Jan Nagel
Chairman	John Struijlaard
Vice Chairman	Maurice Koopman
Secretary	Hylke ten Cate
Treasurer	Ruud Bakkers
Leader in the Senate	Jan Nagel
Leader in the House of Representatives	Henk Krol
Founded	2009
Preceded by	Onafhankelijke Ouderen- en Kinderen Unie
Thinktank	Wetenschappelijk Bureau 50PLUS
Ideology	Pensioners' interests Populism
Political position	Centre
European affiliation	None
International affiliation	None
European Parliament group	None
Colours	Purple
Senate	2 / 75
House of Representatives	1 / 150
States-Provincial	14 / 570
European Parliament	0 / 26
Website
50pluspartij.nl
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50PLUS is a Pensioners' interests political party in the Netherlands. The party was founded in 2009 by Maurice Koopman, Alexander Münninghoff, and Jan Nagel, a politician formerly connected to the Labour Party and Livable Netherlands. Nagel has been the acting Leader since 2013.

The party first participated in elections during the Dutch provincial elections of 2011. During these elections the party obtained 9 seats in the States-Provincial. In the Dutch Senate election of 2011 the members of the States-Provincial elected the members of the new Senate. During these elections, the party won one seat in the Senate. During the Dutch general election of 2012 the party obtained 2 seats.

Henk Krol, leader from 2012 until 2013, Parliamentary leader in the House of Representatives from 2012 until 2013, and again since 2014.

Electoral results

Parliament

Election year	House of Representatives				Government	Notes
	# of overall votes	% of overall vote	# of overall seats won	+/–
2012	177,631	1.9 (#11)	2 / 150	2	in opposition	One seat left after 3 June 2014
Election year	Senate				Government	Notes
	# of overall votes	% of overall vote	# of overall seats won	+/–
2011	2,193	1.3	1 / 75	1	in opposition

European Parliament

Election year	# of overall votes	% of overall vote	# of overall seats won	+/–
2014	174.466	3,7	0 / 25	0

States-Provincial

Election year	# of overall votes	% of overall vote	# of overall seats won	+/–	Notes
2011		(#10)	9 / 566
2015		(#10)	14 / 570	5

Organization

Leadership

• Leaders
  • Jan Nagel (10 January 2011 – 12 January 2012)
  • Henk Krol (12 January 2012 – 4 October 2013)
  • Jan Nagel (4 October 2013 – )

• Chairmen
  • Jan Nagel (10 January 2011 – 10 November 2012)
  • Willem Holthuizen (10 November 2012 – 2 November 2013)
  • Jan Nagel (2 November 2013 – 29 March 2014)
  • John Struijlaard (29 March 2014 – )

• Vice Chairmen
  • Henk Krol (10 January 2011 – 10 November 2012)
  • Maurice Koopman (10 November 2012 – )

• Parliamentary leaders in the Senate
  • Jan Nagel (7 June 2011 – )

• Parliamentary leaders in the House of Representatives
  • Henk Krol (20 September 2012 – 4 October 2013)
  • Norbert Klein (4 October 2013 – 3 June 2014)
  • Martine Baay-Timmerman (3 June 2014 – 10 september 2014)
  • Henk Krol (10 september 2014 – )

• Lijsttrekker
  • Henk Krol – 2012

Representation

House of Representatives

Current members of the House of Representatives since the Dutch general election of 2012:

• Henk Krol, Parliamentary leader

Senate

Current members of the Senate since the Dutch Senate election of 2015:

• Jan Nagel, Parliamentary leader
• Martin van Rooijen