2019 Dutch Senate election
2019 Dutch Senate election All 75 seats in the Senate 38 seats needed for a majority
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
The 2019 election to the Senate of the Netherlands was held on 27 May 2019, two months after the provincial elections .[ 1]
Forum for Democracy , which took part for the first time, became the largest party. This was later undone by several party splits.
Electoral system
The Senate consists of 75 members elected every four years by the members of the States-Provincial of the country's twelve provinces, and, following a law change in 2017, electoral colleges representing the special municipalities of Bonaire , Sint Eustatius and Saba ,[ 5] [ 6] who are in turn elected directly by the citizens two months earlier in the 2019 provincial and electoral college elections . The seats are distributed in one nationwide constituency using party-list proportional representation .[ 7]
The value of each elector's vote is determined by the population of the province or special municipality which the elector represents, at a ratio of approximately 1 vote per 100 residents.
Province
Members
Population[ 8]
Votes
Value per member
South Holland
55
3,674,146
36,740
668
North Holland
55
2,853,488
29,095
519
North Brabant
55
2,544,995
25,465
463
Gelderland
55
2,071,913
20,735
377
Utrecht
49
1,342,194
13,426
274
Overijssel
47
1,156,373
11,562
246
Limburg
47
1,116,127
11,139
237
Friesland
43
647,740
6,493
151
Groningen
43
584,094
5,848
136
Drenthe
41
492,179
4,920
120
Flevoland
41
416,431
4,182
102
Zeeland
39
383,073
3,822
98
Bonaire
9
20,104
198
22
Sint Eustatius
5
3,138
30
6
Saba
5
1,915
20
4
Seat projections
Polling firm
Date(s)
VVD
CDA
D66
PVV
SP
PvdA
GL
CU
PvdD
SGP
50+
OSF
DENK
FVD
Ref
ANP projection
21 Mar 2019
12
9
6
5
4
7
9
4
3
1
2
0
0
13
[ 9]
Ipsos exit poll
20 Mar 2019
12
8
7
6
4
7
8
4
3
1
3
1
1
10
[ 10]
Peil.nl exit poll
20 Mar 2019
12
8
6
6
5
7
7
3
3
2
2
1
1
12
[ 11]
Peil.nl
19 Mar 2019
11
8
6
7
5
6
8
3
2
2
2
2
2
11
[ 12]
I&O Research
15–18 Mar 2019
11
8
5
7
6
6
9
4
3
1
2
2
1
10
[ 13]
Kantar Public
14–17 Mar 2019
13
7
6
6
7
5
6
4
3
2
3
2
2
9
[ 14]
I&O Research
8–12 Mar 2019
12
8
5
7
7
5
9
3
2
2
3
2
1
9
[ 15]
Ipsos
8–11 Mar 2019
13
7
5
9
5
6
8
3
4
2
3
2
0
8
[ 16]
I&O Research
22–26 Feb 2019
11
7
6
8
7
5
10
4
3
2
3
2
1
8
[ 17]
Ipsos
22–25 Feb 2019
12
7
6
8
5
5
9
4
3
2
3
2
1
8
[ 18]
2015 election
26 May 2015
13
12
10
9
9
8
4
3
2
2
2
1
–
–
Results
Electors
Map showing the largest party by province in the 2019 provincial elections
Results of the 20 March 2019 Dutch Provincial and Senate Electoral College elections Party or alliance Votes % Seats +/– Forum for Democracy 1,057,030 14.51 86 New People's Party for Freedom and Democracy 1,017,937 13.97 80 –9 CDA -affiliatedChristian Democratic Appeal 805,862 11.06 72 –17 Bonaire Patriotic Union 1,530 0.02 2 New Democratic Party (Sint Eustatius) 366 0.01 5 New Total 807,758 11.09 79 –10 GroenLinks 783,006 10.75 61 +31 PvdA -affiliatedLabour Party 619,906 8.51 53 –10 Bonaire Democratic Party 2,166 0.03 3 New Total 622,072 8.54 56 –7 D66 -affiliatedDemocrats 66 567,363 7.79 41 –26 Bonaire People's Movement 3,097 0.04 4 New Total 570,460 7.83 45 –22 Party for Freedom 504,948 6.93 40 –26 Socialist Party 430,096 5.90 35 –35 CU–SGP Christian Union 353,443 4.85 31 +2 Reformed Political Party 179,899 2.47 14 –4 CU–SGP joint list in North Brabant19,466 0.27 1 –1 Total 552,808 7.59 46 –3 Party for the Animals 317,104 4.35 20 +2 50PLUS -affiliated50PLUS 265,215 3.64 17 +3 Party for the North 10,527 0.14 2 +1 Total 275,742 3.79 19 +4 OSF -affiliatedLocal Brabant 25,485 0.35 1 0 Frisian National Party 23,662 0.32 4 0 Groningers' Interests 18,556 0.25 3 0 Local Limburg 18,474 0.25 2 +1 Elderly Party North Holland 18,307 0.25 0 –1 Local Parties South Holland 11,648 0.16 0 New Local Parties Gelderland – Code Orange 11,053 0.15 0 New Party for Zeeland 10,619 0.15 2 +1 Locally Strong 9,344 0.13 1 0 U26 Municipalities 6,530 0.09 0 New Frisian Provincial Interests 5,345 0.07 0 New Total 159,023 2.18 13 +1 Denk 121,753 1.67 4 New Code Orange 24,047 0.33 0 New NIDA 11,347 0.16 0 New Seniors Brabant 9,687 0.13 0 New Elderly Appeal - Heart for Brabant 6,719 0.09 0 New Independent Party Drenthe 3,777 0.05 0 New Natural Frisian 2,917 0.04 0 New Jesus Lives 2,323 0.03 0 0 Senior Interests 1,414 0.02 0 0 Politically Active Elders 1,283 0.02 0 0 Respect! 976 0.01 0 New Windward Islands People's Movement 547 0.01 4 New Saba Labour Party 110 0.00 1 New Total 7,284,884 100.00 589 +19 Valid votes 7,284,884 99.41 Invalid/blank votes 43,014 0.59 Total votes 7,327,898 100.00 Registered voters/turnout 13,047,950 56.16 Source: Kiesraad: European Netherlands (Provincial)[ 19] , Bonaire (EC)[ 20] , Saba (EC)[ 21] , Sint Eustatius (EC)[ 22]
Senate
Rutte III lost its majority in the senate.
Party
Unweighted Vote
Weighted Vote
Seats
Votes
Faithless electors
%
Votes
%
±pp
Total
+/−
Forum for Democracy
87
+1
14.80
27,473
15.87
New
12
+12
People's Party for Freedom and Democracy
78
-2
13.27
26,157
15.11
–0.68
12
–1
Christian Democratic Appeal
76
-3
12.93
19,756
11.41
–4.20
9
–3
GroenLinks
65
+4
11.05
19,363
11.18
+5.92
8
+4
Democrats 66
50
+5
8.50
15,154
8.75
–3.00
7
–3
Labour Party
56
±0
9.52
14,921
8.62
–2.43
6
–2
Party for Freedom
38
-2
6.46
11,298
6.53
–5.05
5
–4
Socialist Party
35
±0
5.95
10,179
5.88
–6.40
4
–5
Christian Union
33
+1
5.61
8,707
5.03
–0.58
4
+1
Party for the Animals
20
±0
3.40
6,550
3.78
+0.62
3
+1
50PLUS
18
–1
3.06
5,251
3.03
+0.57
2
±0
Reformed Political Party
15
+1
2.55
4,493
2.60
–0.38
2
±0
Independent Senate Group
13
±0
2.21
2,265
1.31
–0.26
1
±0
DENK
4
±0
0.68
1,563
0.90
New
0
±0
Blank list
0
±0
0.00
0
0.00
New
0
±0
Total valid votes
588
173,121
75
±0
Invalid votes
1
+1
0.00
4
0.00
±0.00
Votes cast / turnout
589
±0
100.00
173,125
100.00
±0.00
Abstentions
0
±0
0.00
0
0.00
±0.00
Registered voters
589
173,125
Sources[ 23] [ 24] [ 25] [ 26] [ 27] [ 28]
Results summary
Popular vote
FvD
14.51%
VVD
13.97%
CDA
11.09%
GL
10.75%
PvdA
8.54%
D66
7.83%
PVV
6.93%
SP
5.90%
CU
4.85%
PvdD
4.35%
50PLUS
3.64%
SGP
2.47%
OSF
2.18%
Denk
1.67%
CU-SGP (NB)
0.27%
Others
1.05%
Unweighted Electoral vote
FvD
14.80%
VVD
13.27%
CDA
12.93%
GL
11.05%
PvdA
9.52%
D66
8.50%
PVV
6.46%
SP
5.95%
CU
5.61%
PvdD
3.40%
50PLUS
3.06%
SGP
2.55%
OSF
2.21%
Denk
0.68%
Weighted Electoral vote
FvD
15.87%
VVD
15.11%
CDA
11.41%
GL
11.18%
D66
8.75%
PvdA
8.62%
PVV
6.53%
SP
5.88%
CU
5.03%
PvdD
3.78%
50PLUS
3.03%
SGP
2.60%
OSF
1.31%
Denk
0.90%
References