Labour Party (Netherlands)

The Labour Party (Dutch: Partij van de Arbeid, PvdA or P van de A) was a social democraticpolitical party in the Netherlands.

The party was founded in 1946 as a merger of the Social Democratic Workers' Party, the Free-thinking Democratic League and the Christian Democratic Union. Prime Ministers from the Labour Party have been Willem Drees (1948–1958), Joop den Uyl (1973–1977) and Wim Kok (1994–2002). From 2012 to 2017, the PvdA formed the second-largest party in parliament and was the secondary partner in the Second Rutte cabinet with the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy.

The party fell to nine seats in the House of Representatives at the 2017 general election, making it the seventh-largest faction in the chamber—its worst showing ever. However, the party rebounded with a first-place finish in the 2019 European Parliament election in the Netherlands, winning six of 26 seats, with 19% of the vote. The party is a member of the European Party of European Socialists and the global Progressive Alliance. In the European Parliament, where the Labour Party has four seats, it is part of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats.

From 2023 until its dissolution, the party participated in an electoral alliance with GroenLinks named GroenLinks–PvdA; the parties formally merged on 1 July 2026 to form Progressive Netherlands. The electoral alliance finished second in the 2023 general election before falling back to fourth in the 2025 general election.