2024 European Parliament election in the Netherlands

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An election of the Members of the European Parliament from the Netherlands will be held on 6 June 2024 as part of the 2024 European Parliament election. It will be the tenth time the elections have been held for the European elections in the Netherlands, and the first to take place after Brexit.

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Electoral system

Compared to last election, Netherlands is entitled to five more MEPs: three already assigned in 2020 in the occasion of the redistribution post Brexit, and two assigned in 2023 after a pre-election assessment of the Parliament composition based on the most recent population figures. [1] The 31 members are elected through semi-open list proportional representation in a single nationwide constituency with seats allocated through D'Hondt method. There's no official electoral threshold, but due to the seat allocation procedure, at least one seat is only guaranteed from a vote share of 3.23%. [2]

Both Dutch nationals and EU citizens residing in the Netherlands are entitled to vote in the European elections in the Netherlands. No voter registration is needed for EU nationals (including Dutch citizens) residing within the country, but they do need to be registered as a resident in their municipality on 23 April 2024. Dutch citizen residing abroad are required to register as "Dutch voter abroad" in the municipality of The Hague. In addition, those eligible to vote must turn 18 years old by election day at the latest. [3]

Five municipalities – Alphen aan den Rijn, Midden-Delfland, Boekel, Borne, and Tynaarlo – will have a pilot to test an A3-size ballot, smaller than ones used in prior elections. The revised ballot would not list all candidate names and would instead ask voters to select the candidate number regardless of party. If successful, it is planned to be used nationwide starting with the 2026 municipal elections. [4]

Outgoing delegation

The table shows the detailed composition of the Dutch seats at the European Parliament as of 5 March 2024.

EP GroupSeatsPartySeatsMEPs
Renew Europe
7 / 29
 People's Party for Freedom and Democracy 5
Democrats 66 1
Volt Netherlands 1
European People's Party
6 / 29
 Christian Democratic Appeal 5
Christian Union 1
Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats
6 / 29
 Labour Party 6
European Conservatives and Reformists
5 / 29
 Reformed Political Party 1
JA21 1
More Direct Democracy 1
Independents 2
Greens–European Free Alliance
3 / 29
 GroenLinks 3
The Left in the European Parliament – GUE/NGL
1 / 29
 Party for the Animals 1
Non-Inscrits
1 / 29
 Forum for Democracy 1
Total29
Source: European Parliament

MEPs not seeking re-election

NamePartyDate announcedSource
Samira Rafaela Democrats 66 21 December 2023 [5]

Contesting parties

PartyEuropean PartyGroup2019 resultTop candidate
GL/PvdA
GroenLinks–PvdA
EGP / PES Greens-EFA / S&D 29.9 [lower-alpha 1] Bas Eickhout [6]
VVD People's Party for Freedom and Democracy ALDE RE 14.6 Malik Azmani [7]
CDA Christian Democratic Appeal EPP EPP 12.2 Tom Berendsen [8]
FvD Forum for Democracy − NI 11.0 Ralf Dekker
D66 Democrats 66 ALDE RE 7.1 Gerben-Jan Gerbrandy [9]
CU Christian Union EPCM EPP 6.8 Anja Haga [10]
SGP Reformed Political Party EPCM ECR Bert-Jan Ruissen [11]
PvdD Party for the Animals APEU GUE/NGL 4.0 Anja Hazekamp [12]
50+ 50PLUS EDP RE 3.9Adriana Hernández [13]
PVV Party for Freedom ID ID 3.5 Sebastiaan Stöteler [14]
SP Socialist Party −−3.4 Gerrie Elfrink  [ nl ] [15]
Volt Volt Netherlands Volt −1.9 Reinier van Lanschot [16]
PP-DG PPEU −0.4 [lower-alpha 2] Matthijs Pontier
VDR Of the Region −−0.2 [lower-alpha 3] Sent Wierda
JL Jesus Lives −−0.2 Florens van der Spek
BBB Farmer–Citizen Movement −−− Sander Smit [17]
BVNL Interest of the Netherlands −−− Wybren van Haga [18]
JA21 JA21 − ECR − Michiel Hoogeveen [19]
MDD More Direct Democracy  [ nl ]− ECR − Dorien Rookmaker
NLplan Nederland met een Plan −−−Kok Chan
NSC New Social Contract −−− Dirk Gotink
  1. ↑ ran separately in 2019.
  2. ↑ ran separately in 2019, with PPNL running together with Of the Region
  3. ↑ ran together with Pirate Party in 2019

Opinion polling

Seats

Polling firmFieldwork dateSample
size		Total GL–PvdA VVD
Renew 		CDA
EPP 		FvD
NI 		D66
Renew 		SGP
ECR 		CU
EPP 		PvdD
Left 		50PLUS
Renew 		PVV
ID 		SP
Left 		Volt
G/EFA 		DENK
NI 		JA21
ECR 		BBB
EPP 		NSC
EPP 		OthersLeadRef
PvdA
S&D 		GL
G/EFA
I&O Research12–15 Apr 20242,18231752031010811001101 [20]
I&O Research22–25 Mar 20241,58631762021010902001002 [21]
Ipsos23 Feb – 5 Mar 20241,89031652020010912001203 [22]
2019 election 23 May 2019–266344322110000–––02

Vote share

Polling firmFieldwork dateSample
size		 GL–PvdA VVD
Renew 		CDA
EPP 		FvD
NI 		D66
Renew 		SGP
ECR 		CU
EPP 		PvdD
Left 		50PLUS
Renew 		PVV
ID 		SP
Left 		Volt
G/EFA 		DENK
NI 		JA21
ECR 		BBB
EPP 		NSC
EPP 		OthersLeadRef
PvdA
S&D 		GL
G/EFA
I&O Research12–15 Apr 20242,18218.7%12.6%5.4%3.1%7.8%3.3%3.0%4.6%–22.0%3.6%4.7%–1.1%4.3%4.2%1.6%3.3% [20]
I&O Research22–25 Mar 20241,58618.6%14.1%5.5%3.0%7.0%3.8%3.1%4.0%–25.1%2.9%5.2%0.0%1.0%3.9%3.1%–6.5% [21]
Ipsos23 Feb – 5 Mar 20241,89016.0%12.7%5.6%2.3%6.0%2.6%2.4%3.7%–22.4%3.2%4.9%––4.5%4.7%8.8%6.4% [22]
Portland24–31 Jan 202453517%12%5%2%5%3%1%3%1%25%3%3%2%1%4%12%1%8% [23]
2023 parliamentary election 22 Nov 2023–15.8%15.2%3.3%2.2%6.3%2.1%2.0%2.3%0.5%23.5%3.1%1.7%2.4%0.7%4.6%12.9%1.4%7.7%
2023 provincial elections 15 Mar 2023–8.4% [lower-alpha 1] 9.0%11.2%6.6%3.1%6.3%2.5%3.9% [lower-alpha 2] 4.8%2.3%5.8%4.2%3.0%0.6%4.4%19.2%–4.7%8.0%
2021 parliamentary election 15–17 Mar 2021–5.7%5.2%21.9%9.5%5.0%15.0%2.1%3.4%3.8%1.0%10.8%6.0%2.4%2.0%2.4%1.0%–2.8%6.9%
2019 election 23 May 2019–19.0%10.9%14.6%12.2%11.0%7.1%6.8%4.0%3.9%3.5%3.4%1.9%1.1%–––0.5%4.4%
  1. ↑ including GL–PvdA joint list in Zeeland
  2. ↑ including CU–SGP joint list in North Brabant

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