2015 Dutch Senate election

2015 Dutch Senate election

26 May 2015
All 75 seats in the Senate 38 seats needed for a majority
Turnout	100.0%
Party Leader Vote % Seats +/– VVD Loek Hermans 16.87 13 −3 CDA Elco Brinkman 14.87 12 +1 D66 Thom de Graaf 13.01 10 +5 PVV Marjolein Faber 11.97 9 −1 SP Tiny Kox 11.85 9 +1 PvdA Marleen Barth 10.45 8 −6 GL Tineke Strik 5.63 4 −1 CU Roel Kuiper 4.87 3 +1 PvdD Niko Koffeman 3.59 2 +1 SGP Peter Schalk 2.72 2 +1 50+ Jan Nagel 2.60 2 +1 OSF Henk ten Hoeve 1.57 1 0 This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below. President of the Senate before President of the Senate after Ankie Broekers-Knol VVD Ankie Broekers-Knol VVD

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

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.

Province	Members	Population	Value
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

Parties		Vote		Seats
		Votes	Value	Won	+/-
	People's Party for Freedom and Democracy	90	28,523	13	3
	Christian Democratic Appeal	89	25,145	12	1
	Democrats 66	67	21,997	10	5
	Party for Freedom	66	20,235	9	1
	Socialist Party	70	20,038	9	1
	Labour Party	63	17,651	8	6
	GroenLinks	30	9,520	4	1
	Christian Union	32	8,237	3	1
	Party for the Animals	18	6,073	2	1
	Reformed Political Party	17	4,597	2	1
	50PLUS	14	4,388	2	1
	Independent Senate Group	14	2,652	1
Total		570	169,056	75
Source: Kiesraad

See also

• List of candidates in the 2015 Dutch Senate election