Netherlands Municipal elections 2022 — Results
Election day: March 16, 2022
- Local parties: 31.28%
- People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD): 11.70%
- Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA): 11.21%
- Democrats 66 (D66): 8.81%
- GreenLeft (GL): 8.49%
- Labour Party (PvdA): 7.85%
- Christian Union (CU): 3.90%
- Socialist Party (SP): 2.79%
Turnout: 50.99%
About this election
How the voting works
As in 2018, each municipality elected its council by proportional representation, with seats scaled to population and a mix of national-party branches and purely local lists competing. The councils then choose the municipal executive of aldermen. The combined vote of the many hundreds of independent local lists is reported here as a single "Local parties" total, reflecting their collective weight rather than any unified organisation.
Compiled and reviewed from official results by ElectioMap. See our data methodology.
In numbers
- 19.58 points separated Local parties from People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD).
- The top two shared 42.98% of the vote between them, and 6 lists cleared 5%.
- Local parties moved +2.63 points against the 2018 municipal elections (28.65% → 31.28%).
- Support for Local parties ranged from 46.02% in Limburg to 20.56% in Groningen — a spread of 25.46 points across 12 regions, and it led in 12 of 12.
- Turnout of 50.99% is the lowest of the 2 municipal electionss covered here since 2018.
Calculated from the official figures on this page and from the other elections of this type in our archive.
Understanding this election
- How Electoral Systems Work Around the World — first-past-the-post, proportional and mixed systems, with real numbers
- Why Election Maps Look Different From the Popular Vote — why a map can look one-sided when the vote was close
- How a Constituency Map Gets Built — what happens when no boundary file matches the districts