text: Between 1879 and 1917 the ARP appealed to "" (Dutch for the little people), the middle class, farmers, and workers, as a confessional party that favoured universal suffrage.
  Between 1917 and 1967 the ARP appealed to members of the Reformed Churches in the Netherlands.
  Between 1967 and 1977, in the time of secularisation and depillarisation the party was able to appeal to younger generations, as the more left-wing confessional party.
  Organisation
  National organisation
  The party's national secretariat was long housed in the Kuyper House in The Hague. It now houses the national secretariat of the Christian Democratic Appeal.
  Linked organisations
  The party published the magazine Nederlandse Gedachten ("Dutch Thoughts"). Its youth organisation was the Anti-Revolutionaire Jongeren Studieclubs ("Anti-Revolutionary Youth Studyclubs"). Its scientific institute was the Dr. A. Kuyper foundation.
  International organisations
  Internationally the ARP was a relatively isolated party. In the European Parliament its members sat in the Christian Democratic faction.
  Pillarised organisations
  The party had close ties to many Protestant organisations, such as the Reformed Churches in the Netherlands, the Protestant broadcaster NCRV, the employers' organisation NCW, the trade union CNV, and the paper De Standaard and after World War II, the Trouw. Together these organisations formed the Protestant pillar.