Editing Anti-Revolutionary Party (section)

===1917–1945===
[[File:Hendrikus Colijn.png|thumb|upright=0.8|[[Hendrikus Colijn]], party leader 1920–1940, [[Prime Minister of the Netherlands|Prime Minister]] 1925–1926 and 1933–1939.]]

After the [[Pacification of 1917]], marked by the introduction of [[universal suffrage]], the party never received more than twenty percent of the vote. The [[1918 Dutch general election|1918 election]] provided a decisive test for the party, where the party won two additional seats. The three confessional parties won 50 seats. The confessional parties formed a new cabinet, led by the Catholic [[Charles Ruijs de Beerenbrouck]]. The ARP supplied three ministers and former prime minister Theo Heemskerk became Minister of Justice. A group of concerned anti-revolutionaries, led by [[Gerrit Kersten]], founded the [[Reformed Political Party]], which opposed universal suffrage and cooperation with the Catholics. The electorate of the ARP changed in the interbellum – the difference between lower class Protestants who voted ARP and middle class Protestants who voted CHU began to disappear, with religious differences between the [[Dutch Reformed Church]] (CHU) and the [[Reformed Churches in the Netherlands]] (ARP) becoming more important.

In the [[1922 Dutch general election|1922 election]], former minister of war [[Hendrikus Colijn]] became the leader of the ARP. He emphasised [[Military|defence]] and [[fiscal conservatism]] as core issues of the party. With him the ARP got sixteen seats in the House of Representatives and fifteen in the [[Senate (Netherlands)|Senate]]. He became [[Minister of Finance]] in the second cabinet of Charles Ruijs de Beerenbrouck. He led the party in the [[1925 Dutch general election|1925 election]]; the party lost three seats in this election. The ARP continued in government with [[Jan Donner]] as minister of Justice. In the [[1929 Dutch general election|1929 election]], the ARP lost another seat. The confessional parties continued to govern.

[[File:PS Gerbrandy 1941.jpg|thumb|left|upright=0.8|[[Pieter Sjoerds Gerbrandy]], [[Prime Minister of the Netherlands|Prime Minister]] 1940–1945 during [[World War II]] leading the [[Dutch government in exile]].]]

In the 1930s, with the growing international political threats and [[Great Depression|economic crisis]], the ARP began to regain its popularity, under the leadership of Colijn. In [[1933 Dutch general election|1933]], the ARP gained two seats and Colijn formed a broad cabinet comprising the [[Roman Catholic State Party]] (RKSP), CHU, ARP, [[Liberal State Party]] (LSP) and [[Free-thinking Democratic League]] (VDB). [[Jan Schouten (politician)|Jan Schouten]] led the party's parliamentary party. Between 1933 and 1939, Colijn led several parliamentary and [[Cabinet of the Netherlands|extra-parliamentary cabinets]] with changing composition, although the CHU, ARP, and RKSP continued to form the core of the cabinet. Colijn refused to [[devaluation|devalue]] the [[Dutch gulden|guilder]] but was unable to resolve the economic crisis. In [[1937 Dutch general election|1937]] the ARP gained three seats and reached a historic 17 seats. Colijn continued to govern. In 1939, his fifth cabinet fell and Colijn was succeeded by [[Dirk Jan de Geer]]. [[Pieter Gerbrandy]] joined the cabinet without support of his parliamentary party.

[[The Netherlands in World War II|During World War II]], members of the ARP played a role in both the [[Dutch government-in-exile|governments-in-exile]], of which many were led by [[Pieter Sjoerds Gerbrandy]] and the [[Dutch resistance|resistance movements]]. The resistance paper ''[[Trouw]]'' was founded by ARP members. Many future ARP MPs began their political career in the Dutch resistance.