High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 2010 Dutch general election was held on Wednesday, 9 June 2010. After the fall of the cabinet Balkenende IV on 20 February, Queen Beatrix accepted the resignation of the Labour Party ministers on 23 February. After the election, that evolved to a neck-to-neck race between the conservative-liberal VVD and the social-democratic PvdA, Mark Rutte was able to form a right-wing government with CDA and VVD, supported from the Parliament by the PVV of Geert Wilders, after talks with the PvdA and other left-wing parties (trying to form a so called Purple Coalition without Christian parties) broke down.