Elmar Vlottes

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Elmar Vlottes
Member of the House of Representatives
Incumbent
Assumed office 6 December 2023

E. (Elmar) Vlottes (born 3 August 1989) is a Dutch politician of the Party for Freedom who has been a Member of the House of Representatives since 2023.

Biography

Vlottes was born in Apeldoorn in 1989. He studied for a HBO diploma at the HAN University of Applied Sciences followed by a degree in Dutch law at Radboud University before working as a programmer for an electronics company. ^[1]

He has described assassinated Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn as motivating his interest in politics before he began working as an intern for the PVV in 2008 as a legal advisor. ^[2] In 2017 he was elected to the Provincial Council of Gelderland and also worked as a policy officer for the PVV's faction in the House of Representatives. ^[3] In the 2023 Dutch general election, he was elected to the House of Representatives, and he became the PVV's spokesperson for taxation and benefits. ^{[4] [5]}

House committee assignments

• Public Expenditure committee
• Committee for Finance
• Delegation to the Interparliamentary Committee on the Dutch Language Union ^[6]

Electoral history

Electoral history of Elmar Vlottes

Year	Body	Party		Pos.	Votes	Result		Ref.
						Party seats	Individual
2017	House of Representatives		Party for Freedom	30	381	20	Lost	[7]
2019	Senate		Party for Freedom	12	0	5	Lost	[8]
2021	House of Representatives		Party for Freedom	34	263	17	Lost	[9]
2023	House of Representatives		Party for Freedom	27	706	37	Won	[10]
2025	House of Representatives		Party for Freedom	13

References

1. "CANDIDATE LIST 2015" . Retrieved 2023-12-11.
2. "Biography, education and career of Elmar Vlottes" . Retrieved 2023-12-11.
3. "Elmar Vlottes" . Retrieved 2023-12-11.
4. "E. (Elmar) Vlottes" . Retrieved 2023-12-11.
5. "Tweede Kamerfractie" [House of Representatives group]. Party for Freedom (in Dutch). Retrieved 7 December 2024.
6. "Elmar Vlottes". House of Representatives . Retrieved 27 December 2024.
7. "Uitslag Tweede Kamerverkiezing 2017 (getekend exemplaar)" [Results House of Representatives 2017 (signed example)](PDF). Dutch Electoral Council (in Dutch). 21 March 2017. pp. 64–65. Retrieved 21 December 2023.
8. Kiesraad (31 May 2019). "Proces-verbaal van de verkiezingsuitslag van de Eerste Kamer" (PDF) (in Dutch). pp. 17–19. Retrieved 28 October 2024.
9. "Proces-verbaal verkiezingsuitslag Tweede Kamer 2021" [Report of the election results House of Representatives 2021](PDF). Dutch Electoral Council (in Dutch). 29 March 2021. pp. 18–19. Retrieved 21 December 2023.
10. "Proces-verbaal van de uitslag van de verkiezing van de Tweede Kamer der Staten-Generaal 2023 d.d. 4 december 2023" [Report of the results of the election of the House of Representatives on 4 December 2023](PDF). Dutch Electoral Council (in Dutch). 4 December 2023. pp. 33–34. Retrieved 21 December 2023.