Socialist Party
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political party in the Netherlands, founded in 1971
Key facts
- Abbreviation
- SP
- Leader
- Jimmy Dijk ( list )
- Chairman
- Lieke van Rossum [ nl ]
- Secretary
- Nils Müller
- Leader in the senate
- Rik Janssen
- Leader in the house of representatives
- Jimmy Dijk
- Founder
- Daan Monjé
- Founded
- 22 October 1971 ( 1971-10-22 )
- Split from
- Communist Unity Movement of the Netherlands (Marxist–Leninist)
- Headquarters
- De Moed Partijbureau SP Snouckaertlaan 70, Amersfoort
- Think tank
- Scientific Office of the SP
- Youth wing
- SP Jongeren (2022–present), ROOD (2003–2021)
- Membership 2026
- 28,380
- Ideology
- Democratic socialism Left-wing populism Social democracy Cultural conservatism
- Political position
- Left-wing
- Regional affiliation
- Socialists, Greens and Democrats , PSOM (historical)
- European affiliation
- European Left Alliance for the People and the Planet
- European parliament group
- European United Left/Nordic Green Left (1999–2019)
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- political party
- Country
- Netherlands
- Headquarters
- Amersfoort
- Chairperson
- Jimmy Dijk
- Official website
- sp.nl
- Political ideology
- Republicanism
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- Commons category
- Socialistische Partij
- topic's main category
- Category:Socialist Party (Netherlands)
- inception
- 1971-10-10
- number of seats in assembly
- 3
- short name
- SP
- political alignment
- left-wing
- sRGB color hex triplet
- FF0000
- social media followers
- 10000
- name
- Socialistische Partij
- member count
- 28380
- native label
- Socialistische Partij
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Encyclopedic overview
The Socialist Party (Dutch: Socialistische Partij [soːɕaːˈlɪstisə pɑrˈtɛi]; SP [ɛsˈpeː]) is a democratic socialist political party in the Netherlands. Founded in 1971 as the Communist Party of the Netherlands/Marxist–Leninist (KPN/ML, Dutch: Communistische Partij van Nederland/Marxistisch–Leninistisch), the party has since moderated itself from Marxism–Leninism and Maoism towards democratic socialism and social democracy.
Positioned to the political left of the Labour Party, the party has been part of the parliamentary opposition since it was formed. After the 2006 Dutch general election, the SP became one of the major parties of the Netherlands winning 25 out of 150 parliamentary seats, an increase of 16 seats. The SP delegation shrank over the next elections, reaching three seats in 2025.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Socialist Party” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.