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The elections of the Dutch Senate were held on 26 May 2015. The elected senators were sworn in on 9 June 2015.
The Senate is the upper house of the States General, the legislature of the Netherlands. Its 75 members are elected on lists by the members of the twelve States-Provincial and three Caribbean electoral colleges for the Senate every four years, within three months of the provincial elections. All provinces and colleges have different electoral weight depending on their population.
The Senate is elected by the members of the States-Provincial of the country's twelve provinces, who had been directly elected by the citizens two months earlier, in the 2015 provincial elections. The value of a vote is determined by the population of the province in which the voter is a member of the States-Provincial. The seats are distributed in one nationwide constituency using party-list proportional representation.
The States-Provincial is the provincial parliament and legislative assembly in each of the provinces of the Netherlands. It is elected for each province simultaneously once every four years and has the responsibility for matters of sub-national or regional importance. Each States-Provincial is directly elected by the voters within the relevant province, and the number of seats in each States-Provincial is proportional to its population.
Party-list proportional representation systems are a family of voting systems emphasizing proportional representation (PR) in elections in which multiple candidates are elected through allocations to an electoral list. They can also be used as part of mixed additional member systems.
Province | Members | Population | Value |
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South Holland | 55 | 3,600,784 | 655 |
North Holland | 55 | 2,762,163 | 502 |
North Brabant | 55 | 2,489,325 | 453 |
Gelderland | 55 | 2,026,393 | 368 |
Utrecht | 49 | 1,263,509 | 258 |
Overijssel | 47 | 1,140,659 | 243 |
Limburg | 47 | 1,118,054 | 238 |
Friesland | 43 | 646,324 | 150 |
Groningen | 43 | 584,104 | 136 |
Drenthe | 41 | 488,611 | 119 |
Flevoland | 41 | 401,503 | 98 |
Zeeland | 39 | 380,717 | 98 |
Parties | Vote | Seats | |||
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Votes | Value | Won | +/- | ||
People's Party for Freedom and Democracy | 90 | 28,523 | 13 | ||
Christian Democratic Appeal | 89 | 25,145 | 12 | ||
Democrats 66 | 67 | 21,997 | 10 | ||
Party for Freedom | 66 | 20,235 | 9 | ||
Socialist Party | 70 | 20,038 | 9 | ||
Labour Party | 63 | 17,651 | 8 | ||
GreenLeft | 30 | 9,520 | 4 | ||
Christian Union | 32 | 8,237 | 3 | ||
Party for the Animals | 18 | 6,073 | 2 | ||
Reformed Political Party | 17 | 4,597 | 2 | ||
50PLUS | 14 | 4,388 | 2 | ||
Independent Senate Group | 14 | 2,652 | 1 | ||
Total | 570 | 169,056 | 75 | ||
Source: Kiesraad | |||||
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