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
Netherlands
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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.
President of the Senate before President of the Senate after
Ankie Broekers-Knol Ankie Broekers-Knol
VVD
Jan Anthonie Bruijn
VVD

Forum for Democracy, which took part for the first time, became the largest party. This was later undone by several party splits.

Electoral system edit

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 edit

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 edit

Electors edit

 
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 allianceVotes%Seats+/–
Forum for Democracy1,057,03014.5186New
People's Party for Freedom and Democracy1,017,93713.9780–9
CDA-affiliatedChristian Democratic Appeal805,86211.0672–17
Bonaire Patriotic Union1,5300.022New
Democratic Party (Sint Eustatius)3660.015New
Total807,75811.0979–10
GroenLinks783,00610.7561+31
PvdA-affiliatedLabour Party619,9068.5153–10
Bonaire Democratic Party2,1660.033New
Total622,0728.5456–7
D66-affiliatedDemocrats 66567,3637.7941–26
Bonaire People's Movement3,0970.044New
Total570,4607.8345–22
Party for Freedom504,9486.9340–26
Socialist Party430,0965.9035–35
CU–SGPChristian Union353,4434.8531+2
Reformed Political Party179,8992.4714–4
CU–SGP joint list in North Brabant19,4660.271–1
Total552,8087.5946–3
Party for the Animals317,1044.3520+2
50PLUS-affiliated50PLUS265,2153.6417+3
Party for the North10,5270.142+1
Total275,7423.7919+4
OSF-affiliatedLocal Brabant25,4850.3510
Frisian National Party23,6620.3240
Groningers' Interests18,5560.2530
Local Limburg18,4740.252+1
Elderly Party North Holland18,3070.250–1
Local Parties South Holland11,6480.160New
Local Parties Gelderland – Code Orange11,0530.150New
Party for Zeeland10,6190.152+1
Locally Strong9,3440.1310
U26 Municipalities6,5300.090New
Frisian Provincial Interests5,3450.070New
Total159,0232.1813+1
Denk121,7531.674New
Code Orange24,0470.330New
NIDA11,3470.160New
Seniors Brabant9,6870.130New
Elderly Appeal - Heart for Brabant6,7190.090New
Independent Party Drenthe3,7770.050New
Natural Frisian2,9170.040New
Jesus Lives2,3230.0300
Senior Interests1,4140.0200
Politically Active Elders1,2830.0200
Respect!9760.010New
Windward Islands People's Movement5470.014New
Saba Labour Party1100.001New
Total7,284,884100.00589+19
Valid votes7,284,88499.41
Invalid/blank votes43,0140.59
Total votes7,327,898100.00
Registered voters/turnout13,047,95056.16
Source: Kiesraad: European Netherlands (Provincial), Bonaire (EC), Saba (EC), Sint Eustatius (EC)

Senate edit

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 [9][10][11][12][13][14]

Results summary edit

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 edit

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