List of candidates in the 2019 Dutch Senate election

For the 2019 Dutch Senate election, 15 electoral lists were successfully submitted, totalling 259 candidates. ^[1]

The 75 seats were awarded to party lists, with candidates over the preference threshold awarded a seat first if available and the other seats awarded based on position on the list. The preference threshold for this election was 2,309 weighted votes (same as the electoral threshold). Four candidate would have not been elected based on position on the list, but received enough preference votes: Ilse Bezaan (Party for Freedom), Hugo Berkhout, Otto Hermans and Theo Hiddema (all three Forum for Democracy). ^[1] Replacements are also asked based on position on the list.

1: People's Party for Freedom and Democracy

Candidate list for People's Party for Freedom and Democracy ^[2]

Position	Candidate	Votes	Weighted votes	Result
1	Annemarie Jorritsma-Lebbink			Elected
2	Jan Anthonie Bruijn			Elected
3	Tanja Klip-Martin			Elected
4	Pim van Ballekom			Elected
5	Reina de Bruijn-Wezeman			Elected
6	Micky Adriaansens			Elected
7	Paulien Geerdink			Elected
8	Henk Jan Meijer			Elected
9	Mirjam de Blécourt-Wouterse			Elected
10	Roel Wever			Elected
11	Eric van der Burg			Elected
12	Alfred Arbouw			Elected
13	Avine Fokkens-Kelder
14	Jan Keunen			Replacement
15	Lucas Vos			Replacement
16	Caspar van den Berg			Replacement
17	David Ikkersheim
18	René Meeuwissen
19	Rian Vogels
20	Marjolein van der Linden
21	Huub Dekkers
22	Roelof Salomons
23	Kees Bierens
24	Marc Muntinga
25	Michiel Hijmans
26	Conny Bieze-van Eck
27	Gerrit Jan Kok
28	Frits Barneveld Binkhuysen
29	Bram Cool
30	Hans Koning
31	Jeroen Pliester
32	Ton Serlie
33	Oscar van Lent
34	Pieter van Woensel
35	Wil Vennix
36	René Siccama Hiemstra
37	Joanneke van Benthem-den Bakker
38	Irene van Hooff
39	Joël Scherrenberg
40	Elly van der Wilk-van Baren
41	Hans de Hoog
Total

2: Christian Democratic Appeal

Candidate list for Christian Democratic Appeal ^[3]

Position	Candidate	Votes	Weighted votes	Result
1	Ben Knapen			Elected
2	Joop Atsma			Elected
3	Greet Prins			Elected
4	Ria Oomen-Ruijten			Elected
5	Theo Rietkerk			Elected
6	Ton Rombouts			Elected
7	Niek Jan van Kesteren			Elected
8	Peter Essers			Elected
9	Hugo Doornhof			Elected
10	Jonathan Soeharno			Replacement
11	Marianne Luyer
12	Josine Westerbeek-Huitink
13	Mirjam van 't Veld
14	Geerten Boogaard
15	Frank van den Heuvel
16	Hansko Broeksteeg
17	Jacqueline van Leeuwen
18	Max Keulaerds
19	Arjan Kaaks
20	Janneke Schermers
21	Hester Maij
22	Edwin Visser
23	Susanne de Roy van Zuidewijn-Rive
24	Erik de Ridder
Total

3: Democrats 66

Candidate list for Democrats 66 ^[4]

Position	Candidate	Votes	Weighted votes	Result
1	Annelien Bredenoord			Elected
2	Joris Backer			Elected
3	Alexandra van Huffelen			Elected
4	Petra Stienen			Elected
5	Boris Dittrich			Elected
6	Henk Pijlman			Elected
7	Paul Schnabel			Elected, but declined
8	Carla Moonen			Replacement
9	Peter van der Voort			Replacement
10	Carinne Elion-Valter
11	Ed Kronenburg
12	Bas Werker
13	Mark Sanders
14	Anne Meuwese
15	John Bolte
16	Willemijn Aerdts
17	Aart Karssen
18	Paul Breitbarth
19	Boris Kocken
20	Jan Engels
21	Jan-Koen Sluijs
22	Agaath Dekker-Groen
23	Anneke Wijbenga
24	Jeroen Hageman
Total

4: Party for Freedom

Candidate list for the Party for Freedom ^[5]

Number	Candidate	Votes	Weighted votes	Result
1	Marjolein Faber	22	5,809	Elected [6]
2	Gom van Strien	0	0	Elected [7]
3	Alexander van Hattem	1	237	Elected [8]
4	Ton van Kesteren	2	272	Elected [9]
5	Max Aardema	4	555
6	Peter van Dijk	1	98
7	Ilse Bezaan	7	4,229	Elected [10]
8	Erik Veltmeijer	1	98
9	Chris Jansen	0	0
10	Nico Uppelschoten	0	0
11	Sebastiaan Stöteler	0	0
12	Elmar Vlottes	0	0
13	Patricia van der Kammen	0	0
14	Cees Riezebos	0	0
15	Marco Deen	0	0
Total		38	11,298

5: Socialist Party

Candidate list for Socialist Party ^[11]

Position	Candidate	Votes	Weighted votes	Result
1	Tiny Kox			Elected
2	Rik Janssen			Elected
3	Arda Gerkens			Elected
4	Bastiaan van Apeldoorn			Elected
5	Paul Ulenbelt
6	Cobie Groenendijk
7	Nicole van Gemert
8	Meta Meijer
9	Ruud Kuin
10	Lies van Aelst
11	Nurettin Altundal
12	Theo Coşkun
13	Rosita van Gijlswijk
14	Nico Heijmans
15	Inez Staarink
16	Bob Ruers
17	Spencer Zeegers
18	Hans van Heijningen
19	Riet de Wit-Romans
20	Remi Poppe
Total

6: Labour Party

Candidate list for Labour Party ^[12]

Position	Candidate	Votes	Weighted votes	Result
1	Mei Li Vos			Elected
2	Esther-Mirjam Sent			Elected
3	Ferd Crone			Elected
4	Jopie Nooren			Elected
5	Ruud Koole			Elected
6	Jeroen Recourt			Elected
7	Hamit Karakus			Replacement
8	Mary Fiers			Replacement
9	Marnix Norder
10	Wouter van Zandbrink
11	Mies Westerveld
12	Artie Ramsodit
13	Lambert Verheijen
14	Birgit Op de Laak
15	André Knottnerus
16	Michael Yap
17	Jan Lunsing
18	Jaouad Khamkhami
19	Guusje ter Horst
Total

7: GroenLinks

Candidate list for GroenLinks ^[13]

Position	Candidate	Votes	Weighted votes	Result
1	Paul Rosenmöller			Elected
2	Farah Karimi			Elected
3	Margreet de Boer			Elected
4	Kees Vendrik			Elected
5	Ruard Ganzevoort			Elected
6	Saskia Kluit			Elected
7	Roel van Gurp			Elected
8	Gala Veldhoen			Elected
9	Mirjam Krijnen			Replacement
10	Jan van de Venis
11	Alwin Hietbrink
12	Funs Elbersen
13	Caroline van Dullemen
14	Selçuk Akinci
15	Axel Boomgaars
16	Laura Henderson
17	Patricia Withagen
18	Rosan Kocken
19	János Betkó
Total

8: ChristianUnion

Candidate list for ChristianUnion ^[14]

Position	Candidate	Votes	Weighted votes	Result
1	Mirjam Bikker			Elected
2	Peter Ester			Elected
3	Tineke Huizinga-Heringa			Elected
4	Maarten Verkerk			Elected
5	Hendrik-Jan Talsma			Replacement
6	Simone Kennedy-Doornbos			Replacement
7	Onno van Schayck
8	Gerdien Rots
9	Martijn van Meppelen Scheppink
10	Trineke Palm
11	Bernard Veldkamp
12	Jouke de Jong
13	Ben Vreugdenhil
14	Leendert Verheij
15	Cees Dekker
16	Hans van Vliet
17	Herman Sietsma
18	Beatrice de Graaf
Total

9: Party for the Animals

Candidate list for Party for the Animals ^[15]

Position	Candidate	Votes	Weighted votes	Result
1	Niko Koffeman			Elected
2	Christine Teunissen			Elected
3	Peter Nicolaï			Elected
4	Henriëtte Prast			Replacement
5	Hiltje Keller
6	Pim Martens
7	Floriske van Leeuwen
8	Luuk van der Veer
9	Stephanie van Voorthuizen
10	Joyce van Heijningen
11	Maarten Reesink
12	Erno Eskens
13	Eva Meijer
14	Marnix van der Werf
15	Ewald Engelen
Total

10: Reformed Political Party

Candidate list for Reformed Political Party ^[16]

Position	Candidate	Votes	Weighted votes	Result
1	Peter Schalk			Elected
2	Diederik van Dijk			Elected
3	Servaas Stoop
4	Gert van Leeuwen
5	Hans Tanis
6	Breunis van de Weerd
7	Gerard van der Waal
8	Rien Hoek
9	Harry van der Maas
10	Arnold Weggeman
11	Ewart Bosma
12	Theo Meijboom
13	David van As
14	Wim de Vries
15	Jos Bart
16	Sjaak Simonse
17	Peter Zevenbergen
18	Aart de Kruijf
19	Ad Dorst
20	Wouter Boonzaaijer
Total

11: 50PLUS

Candidate list for 50PLUS ^[17]

Position	Candidate	Votes	Weighted votes	Result
1	Martin van Rooijen			Elected
2	Martine Baay			Elected
3	Rob de Brouwer
4	Erik Meijboom
5	Erik Lutjens
6	Janbart Evenboer
7	Theun Wiersma
8	Chris Nyqvist
9	Hylke ten Cate
10	Henk van Elst
11	Marcel Bruins
12	Anne Marie Fischer-Otten
13	Willem Willemse
14	Karel Scheps
Total

12: Independent Senate Group

Candidate list for Independent Senate Group ^[18]

Position	Candidate	Votes	Weighted votes	Result
1	Gerben Gerbrandy			Elected
2	Ton Raven			Replacement
3	John van Gorp
4	Henk Jan Schmaal
5	Roy Luca
Total

13: Forum for Democracy

Candidate list for the Forum for Democracy ^[19]

Number	Candidate	Votes	Weighted votes	Result
1	Henk Otten	4	1,186	Elected [20]
2	Paul Cliteur	52	11,888	Elected [21]
3	Annabel Nanninga	0	0	Elected [22]
4	Paul Frentrop	0	0	Elected [23]
5	Jeroen de Vries	2	548	Elected [24]
6	Dorien Rookmaker	0	0	Elected [25]
7	Rob Rooken	0	0	Elected, but declined [26]
8	Lennart van der Linden	0	0	Elected [27]
9	Loek van Wely	0	0	Elected [28]
10	Johan Dessing	0	0	Replacement [29]
11	Toine Beukering	0	0	Replacement [30]
12	Nicki Pouw-Verweij	0	0	Replacement [31]
13	Rob Roos	0	0
14	Bob van Pareren	0	0	Replacement [32]
15	Robert Baljeu	0	0	Replacement [33]
16	Hugo Berkhout	8	4,152	Elected [34]
17	Sytze van Odijk	0	0
18	Otto Hermans	11	3,019	Elected [lower-alpha 1] [35]
19	Theo Hiddema	10	6,680	Elected [lower-alpha 1] [36]
Total		87	27,473

14: DENK

Candidate list for DENK ^[37]

Position	Candidate	Votes	Weighted votes	Result
1	Selçuk Öztürk	4	1,563
2	Natasha Mohamed-Hoesein	0	0
3	Dursun Kiliç	0	0
4	Toon Peters	0	0
5	Ditter Blom	0	0
Total		4	1,563

15: List Frans

Candidate list for List Frans ^[37]

Position	Candidate	Votes	Weighted votes	Result
1	J.C. Frans	0	0
Total		0	0

See also

• List of members of the Senate of the Netherlands, 2019–2023

Notes

1. Declined at first, but joined later.

References

1. Kiesraad (31 May 2019a). "Uitslag Eerste Kamerverkiezing 2019" (in Dutch). Retrieved 28 October 2024.
2. Kiesraad 2019b, pp. 4–10.
3. Kiesraad 2019b, pp. 10–13.
4. Kiesraad 2019b, pp. 13–16.
5. Kiesraad 2019b, pp. 17–19.
6. "M.H.M. (Marjolein) Faber-van de Klashorst". Parlement.com . Retrieved 28 October 2024.
7. "Ir. drs. G.A. (Gom) van Strien". Parlement.com . Retrieved 28 October 2024.
8. "A.W.J.A. (Alexander) van Hattem". Parlement.com . Retrieved 28 October 2024.
9. "A.J.M. (Ton) van Kesteren". Parlement.com . Retrieved 28 October 2024.
10. "Mr. I.A. (Ilse) Bezaan". Parlement.com . Retrieved 28 October 2024.
11. Kiesraad 2019b, pp. 19–21.
12. Kiesraad 2019b, pp. 22–24.
13. Kiesraad 2019b, pp. 24–26.
14. Kiesraad 2019b, pp. 27–29.
15. Kiesraad 2019b, pp. 29–31.
16. Kiesraad 2019b, pp. 31–33.
17. Kiesraad 2019b, pp. 33–35.
18. Kiesraad 2019b, pp. 35–36.
19. Kiesraad 2019b, pp. 36–38.
20. "Mr.Drs. H. (Henk) Otten". Parlement.com . Retrieved 28 October 2024.
21. "Prof.Dr. P.B. (Paul) Cliteur". Parlement.com . Retrieved 28 October 2024.
22. "A. (Annabel) Nanninga". Parlement.com . Retrieved 28 October 2024.
23. "Dr. P.M.L. (Paul) Frentrop". Parlement.com . Retrieved 28 October 2024.
24. "J.W.E. (Jeroen) de Vries". Parlement.com . Retrieved 28 October 2024.
25. "Drs. D. (Dorien) Rookmaker". Parlement.com . Retrieved 28 October 2024.
26. "R.J. (Rob) Rooken". Parlement.com . Retrieved 28 October 2024.
27. "L.P. (Lennart) van der Linden M.Sc". Parlement.com . Retrieved 28 October 2024.
28. "L.F.A.M. (Loek) van Wely". Parlement.com . Retrieved 28 October 2024.
29. "J. (Johan) Dessing". Parlement.com . Retrieved 28 October 2024.
30. "Drs. A.J.A. (Toine) Beukering". Parlement.com . Retrieved 28 October 2024.
31. "Dr. N.J.F. (Nicki) Pouw-Verweij". Parlement.com . Retrieved 28 October 2024.
32. "J. (Bob) van Pareren". Parlement.com . Retrieved 28 October 2024.
33. "R.J.P. (Robert) Baljeu". Parlement.com . Retrieved 28 October 2024.
34. "H.A. (Hugo) Berkhout". Parlement.com . Retrieved 28 October 2024.
35. "Drs. O.J. (Otto) Hermans". Parlement.com . Retrieved 28 October 2024.
36. "Mr. Th.U. (Theo) Hiddema". Parlement.com . Retrieved 28 October 2024.
37. Kiesraad 2019b, p. 39.

General references

• Kiesraad (31 May 2019b). "Proces-verbaal van de verkiezingsuitslag van de Eerste Kamer" (PDF) (in Dutch). Retrieved 28 October 2024.