The naval bill's defeat did not immediately remove the government. No other coalition could readily form, so Queen Wilhelmina kept the existing ministry in office until the next election. Rejection of the naval program therefore left its sponsoring cabinet in office. The later war raises a counterfactual question about whether legislators would have voted differently had they known what was coming 16 to 18 years later.
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Queen Wilhelmina keeps the cabinet in office
With no replacement government available, Queen Wilhelmina kept the coalition that had lost the naval vote in office until the next election.