2019 Dutch Senate election

The 2019 election to the Senate of the Netherlands was held on 27 May 2019, two months after the provincial elections.[1]

2019 Dutch Senate election

27 May 2019[1]
All 75 seats in the Senate 38 seats needed for a majority
Party Leader % Seats ± FvD Paul Cliteur 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.
President of the Senate before President of the Senate after Ankie Broekers-Knol VVD Jan Anthonie Bruijn VVD

Map showing the largest party by province in the 2019 Dutch provincial elections

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, who are in turn elected directly by the citizens two months earlier in the 2019 provincial elections, and, following a law change in 2017, members of the island councils of the special municipalities of Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba.[5] The seats are distributed in one nationwide constituency using party-list proportional representation.[6]

The value of a vote is determined by the population of the province or special municipality which the elector represents. The seats are distributed in one nationwide constituency using party-list proportional representation.

Province	Members	Population[7]	Value
South Holland	55	3,674,146	668
North Holland	55	2,853,488	519
North Brabant	55	2,544,995	463
Gelderland	55	2,071,913	377
Utrecht	49	1,342,194	274
Overijssel	47	1,156,373	246
Limburg	47	1,116,127	237
Friesland	43	647,740	151
Groningen	43	584,094	136
Drenthe	41	492,179	120
Flevoland	41	416,431	102
Zeeland	39	383,073	98
Bonaire	9	20,104	22
Sint Eustatius	5	3,138	6
Saba	5	1,915	4

Seat projections

Polling firm	Date(s)	VVD	CDA	D66	PVV	SP	PvdA	GL	CU	PvdD	SGP	50+	OSF	DENK	FvD	Rutte III Support
ANP projection	21 Mar 2019	12	9	6	5	4	7	9	4	3	1	2	0	0	13	31	–7
Ipsos exit poll	20 Mar 2019	12	8	7	6	4	7	8	4	3	1	3	1	1	10	31	–7
Peil.nl exit poll	20 Mar 2019	12	8	6	6	5	7	7	3	3	2	2	1	1	12	29	–9
Peil.nl	19 Mar 2019	11	8	6	7	5	6	8	3	2	2	2	2	2	11	28	–10
I&O Research	15–18 Mar 2019	11	8	5	7	6	6	9	4	3	1	2	2	1	10	28	–10
Kantar Public	14–17 Mar 2019	13	7	6	6	7	5	6	4	3	2	3	2	2	9	30	–8
I&O Research	8–12 Mar 2019	12	8	5	7	7	5	9	3	2	2	3	2	1	9	28	–10
Ipsos	8–11 Mar 2019	13	7	5	9	5	6	8	3	4	2	3	2	0	8	28	–10
I&O Research	22–26 Feb 2019	11	7	6	8	7	5	10	4	3	2	3	2	1	8	28	–10
Ipsos	22–25 Feb 2019	12	7	6	8	5	5	9	4	3	2	3	2	1	8	29	–9
2015 election	26 May 2015	13	12	10	9	9	8	4	3	2	2	2	1	–	–	38	+1

Results

Party		Vote				Seats
		Votes	Weight	%	±pp	Total	+/−
	Forum for Democracy	87	27,473	15.87	New	12	+12
	People's Party for Freedom and Democracy	78	26,157	15.11	–0.68	12	–1
	Christian Democratic Appeal	76	19,756	11.41	–4.20	9	–3
	GreenLeft	65	19,363	11.18	+5.92	8	+4
	Democrats 66	50	15,154	8.75	–3.00	7	–3
	Labour Party	56	14,921	8.62	–2.43	6	–2
	Party for Freedom	38	11,298	6.53	–5.05	5	–4
	Socialist Party	35	10,179	5.88	–6.40	4	–5
	Christian Union	33	8,707	5.03	–0.58	4	+1
	Party for the Animals	20	6,550	3.78	+0.62	3	+1
	50PLUS	18	5,251	3.03	+0.57	2	±0
	Reformed Political Party	15	4,493	2.60	–0.38	2	±0
	Independent Senate Group	13	2,265	1.31	–1.15	1	±0
	Denk	4	1,563	0.90	New	0	±0
	Blank list	0	0	0.00	New	0	±0
Total valid votes		588	173,121			75	±0
Invalid votes		1	4	0.00	±0.00
Votes cast / turnout		589	173,125	100.00	±0.00
Abstentions		0	0	0.00	±0.00
Registered voters		589	173,125
Sources [8][9][10][11][12][13]

References

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