2015 Dutch provincial elections

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Provincial elections were held in the Netherlands on Wednesday 18 March 2015.[1] Eligible voters elected the members of the States-Provincial in the twelve provinces. These elections also indirectly determined the members of the Senate, since the 566 members of the twelve States-Provincial will elect the Senate's 75 members in the Senate election on 26 May 2015.[2] These provincial election were held on the same day as the .

Participating parties[]

Eight political parties participated in the elections in all of the country's twelve provinces:[3]

Opinion polls[]

In the table below the % of voters based on various polls.

Date Polling Firm VVD PvdA CDA PVV SP D66 GL CU 50PLUS SGP PvdD Others Lead
7 Feb 2015 I&O Research[4] 17 12 13 13 14 13 5 4 4 3 3 0 3
1 Feb 2015 Peil[5] 14 9 15 14 12 16 7 4 1 2 3 2 1
2 Mar 2011 Last elections 20 17 14 12 10 8 6 3 2 2 2 2 3

Results[]

National[]

Biggest party by province
Biggest party by municipality

The table below shows the total number of seats in all provinces. On March 23, the official results of the 2015 election were published. The two parties which lost most seats were PvdA and VVD, the parties in the national government at the time of the election.

Political party Popular vote Seats
Votes % Won +/−
People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD) 965,353 15.92 89 Decrease 23
Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA) 891,845 14.71 89 Increase 3
Democrats 66 (D66) 755,719 12.46 67 Increase 25
Party for Freedom (PVV) 711,176 11.73 66 Decrease 3
Socialist Party (SP) 706,440 11.65 70 Increase 14
Labour Party (PvdA) 611,262 10.08 63 Decrease 44
GroenLinks (GL) 324,572 5.35 30 Decrease 4
Christian Union (CU) 243,209 4.01 29 Increase 6
Party for the Animals (PvdD) 210,113 3.46 18 Increase 11
50PLUS (50+) 204,858 3.38 14 Increase 5
Reformed Political Party (SGP) 170,624 2.81 18 Increase 6
CU–SGP[6] 42,703 0.70 2 Increase 1
Provincial parties[7] 15 Increase 7
Total 6,064,754 100.00 570 Increase 4
Turnout: 47.76% (−8.21)

By province[]

Province SP PvdA PvdD GL D66 50+ VVD CDA CU SGP PVV Provincial parties
Groningen 8 6 2 3 4 0 4 5 4 3
4
Friesland 5 7 1 1 3 1 5 9 3 4
5
Drenthe 5 7 2 4 1 7 6 3 0 5
1
  • 1
Overijssel 5 5 1 2 5 1 6 11 4 2 5 0
Flevoland 5 3 2 2 4 2 7 5 3 2 6 0
Gelderland 6 6 2 3 7 1 9 9 4 3 5 0
Utrecht 4 5 2 4 9 1 9 6 3 2 4 0
North Holland 6 7 3 4 10 1 11 5 1 6
1
  • 1
South Holland 5 5 2 3 7 2 10 7 3 3 8 0
Zeeland 4 4 1 3 1 6 6 2 6 4
2
North Brabant 9 4 2 3 7 2 10 9 1 7
1
  • 1
Limburg 8 4 1 2 4 1 5 11 9
2
  • 1
  • 1

Island council elections[]

Political party 2011 2015 change
Bonaire island council[8]
(UPB) 4 3 −1
(PDB) 3 3 –
(PHU) 1 0 −1
(MBL) 1 0 −1
Movementu di Pueblo Boneriano (MPB) – 3 +3
total 9 9
turnout 75% 78% +3%[9]
Saba island council[10]
Windward Islands People's Movement (WIPM) 4 3 −1
Saba Labour Party (SLP) 1 2 +1
total 5 5
turnout 88% 91,3% +3,1%
Sint Eustatius island council[11]
(DP) 2 2 –
(PLP) 1 2 +1
(UPC) 1 1 –
(STEP) 1 0 −1
Blanco Lijst (Lijst-Schmidt) – 0 –
(SLAM) – 0 –
total 5 5
turnout 68% 65,5% −2,5%

References[]

  1. ^ "Provinciale staten". Kiesraad (in Dutch). Archived from the original on 17 July 2014. Retrieved 28 July 2014.
  2. ^ "Eerste Kamer". Kiesraad (in Dutch). Retrieved 28 July 2014.
  3. ^ "Kandidatenlijsten voor provinciale statenverkiezingen ingeleverd". Kiesraad (in Dutch). 2 February 2015. Archived from the original on 3 February 2015. Retrieved 2 February 2015.
  4. ^ Provinciale Statenverkiezingen Archived 2015-02-11 at the Wayback Machine (in Dutch). Retrieved 11 February 2015.
  5. ^ Peil.nl Retrieved 1 February 2015.
  6. ^ Combined list in North Holland and North Brabant.
  7. ^ Many linked to the Independent Senate Group (OSF).
  8. ^ Verkiezingen Bonaire leveren geen winnaars op, telegraaf.nl, 19 maart 2015
  9. ^ Hoge opkomst op Bonaire, antilliaansdagblad.com, 18 maart 2015
  10. ^ Grote opkomst verkiezingen Saba, caribischnetwerk.ntr.nl, 19 maart 2015
  11. ^ Statia to get coalition govt. as no outright winner emerges, thedailyherald.com, 19 maart 2015

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