Dutch Senate election, 2015

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Dutch Senate election, 2015

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  2011 26 May 20152019 

All 75 seats to the Senate
38 seats are needed for a majority
Turnout 100,0%

  First party Second party Third party
  Loek Hermans 1986.jpg Elco Brinkman 2008.jpg Thom de Graaf 2009.jpg
Leader Loek Hermans Elco Brinkman Thom de Graaf
Party VVD CDA D66
Last election 16 seats, 20,8% 11 seats, 14.6% 5 seats, 7.6%
Seats won 13 12 10
Seat changeDecrease2.svg3Increase2.svg1Increase2.svg5
Popular vote 28,523 25,145 21,997
Percentage 16.9% 14.9% 13.0%
SwingDecrease2.svg3.9%Increase2.svg0.3%Increase2.svg5.4%

  Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party
  Kox Tiny 20060328-01.jpg Marleen Barth (cropped).jpg
Leader Marjolein Faber Tiny Kox Marleen Barth
Party PVV SP PvdA
Last election 10 seats, 13.1% 8 seats, 10.3% 14 seats, 18.1%
Seats won 9 9 8
Seat changeDecrease2.svg1Increase2.svg1Decrease2.svg6
Popular vote 20,235 20,038 17,651
Percentage 12.0% 11.9% 10.5%
SwingDecrease2.svg1.1%Increase2.svg1.6%Decrease2.svg7.6

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President before election

Ankie Broekers-Knol
VVD

Elected President

Ankie Broekers-Knol
VVD

The elections of the Dutch Senate were held on 26 May 2015. The elected senators were sworn in on 9 June 2015.

Senate (Netherlands) upper house of the Netherlands

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.

Electoral system

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.

States-Provincial

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 family of voting systems

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.

ProvinceMembersPopulationValue
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

Results

PartiesVoteSeats
VotesValueWon+/-
  People's Party for Freedom and Democracy 90 28,523 13Decrease2.svg 3
  Christian Democratic Appeal 89 25,145 12Increase2.svg 1
  Democrats 66 67 21,997 10Increase2.svg 5
  Party for Freedom 66 20,235 9Decrease2.svg 1
  Socialist Party 70 20,038 9Increase2.svg 1
  Labour Party 63 17,651 8Decrease2.svg 6
  GreenLeft 30 9,520 4Decrease2.svg 1
  Christian Union 32 8,237 3Increase2.svg 1
  Party for the Animals 18 6,073 2Increase2.svg 1
  Reformed Political Party 17 4,597 2Increase2.svg 1
  50PLUS 14 4,388 2Increase2.svg 1
  Independent Senate Group 14 2,652 1Steady2.svg
Total570169,05675Steady2.svg
Source: Kiesraad

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