2019 Dutch Senate election ← 2015 27 May 2019[ 1] 2023 →
All 75 seats in the Senate 38 seats needed for a majority Party Leader % Seats +/– FvD Henk Otten 15.87 12 New VVD Annemarie Jorritsma[ 2] 15.11 12 −1 CDA Ben Knapen[ 3] 11.41 9 −3 GL Paul Rosenmöller 11.18 8 +4 D66 Annelien Bredenoord[ 4] 8.75 7 −3 PvdA Mei Li Vos 8.62 6 −2 PVV Marjolein Faber 6.53 5 −4 SP Tiny Kox 5.88 4 −5 CU Mirjam Bikker 5.03 4 +1 PvdD Niko Koffeman 3.78 3 +1 50+ Martin van Rooijen 3.03 2 0 SGP Peter Schalk 2.60 2 0 OSF Gerben Gerbrandy 1.31 1 0
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-affiliated Labour 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.
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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%
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