Netherlands European Parliament election 2019 — Results
Election day: May 23, 2019
- Labour Party (PvdA): 19.01%
- People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD): 14.64%
- Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA): 12.18%
- Forum for Democracy (FvD): 10.96%
- GreenLeft (GL): 10.90%
- Democrats 66 (D66): 7.09%
- Christian Union–SGP: 6.83%
- Party for the Animals (PvdD): 4.02%
Turnout: 41.93%
About this election
How the voting works
Dutch MEPs are elected by nationwide proportional representation (D'Hondt method) with a single national list per party and a low effective threshold. In 2019 the Netherlands elected 26 members; three additional seats were held in reserve and allocated after the United Kingdom's departure from the EU, eventually taking the Dutch delegation to 29. Voting is on a Thursday, in line with the Dutch tradition rather than the Sunday used by most member states.
Compiled and reviewed from official results by ElectioMap. See our data methodology.
In numbers
- 4.37 points separated Labour Party (PvdA) from People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD).
- The top two shared 33.65% of the vote between them, and 7 lists cleared 5%.
- Support for Labour Party (PvdA) ranged from 29.74% in Limburg to 15.99% in Zuid-Holland — a spread of 13.75 points across 12 regions, and it led in 9 of 12.
- Turnout of 41.93% is the lowest of the 2 European Parliament elections covered here since 2019.
Calculated from the official figures on this page and from the other elections of this type in our archive.
Understanding this election
- How We Check an Election Figure — the checks every number passes before publication
- How Live Election Data Is Collected and Verified — from ballot box to published figure
- Why Official Results Sometimes Take Weeks — the stages between the count and the legal result