Netherlands General election 2021 — Results
Election day: March 17, 2021
- People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD): 21.87%, 34 seats
- Democrats 66 (D66): 15.02%, 24 seats
- Party for Freedom (PVV): 10.79%, 17 seats
- Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA): 9.50%, 15 seats
- Socialist Party (SP): 5.98%, 9 seats
- Labour Party (PvdA): 5.73%, 9 seats
- GreenLeft (GL): 5.16%, 8 seats
- Forum for Democracy (FvD): 5.02%, 8 seats
Turnout: 78.71%
About this election
How the voting works
As in every Dutch general election, the 150 MPs were chosen by nationwide proportional representation with effectively no threshold, so the seat count tracks the vote share almost exactly and a party can enter parliament with around 0.67% of the vote. Because of the pandemic, voting was spread over three days for the first time, postal voting was opened to everyone aged 70 and over, and extra polling stations were used to reduce crowding. The fragmentation the system permits was on full display: a single seat's worth of votes was enough for small newcomers to win representation.
Compiled and reviewed from official results by ElectioMap. See our data methodology.
In numbers
- 6.85 points separated People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD) from Democrats 66 (D66) — 713,269 votes.
- People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD) converted 21.87% of the vote into 34 of 150 seats (22.67%), 0.80 points more than its vote share.
- The top two shared 36.89% of the vote between them, and 8 lists cleared 5%.
- People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD) moved +0.58 points against the 2017 general election (21.29% → 21.87%).
- Support for People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD) ranged from 26.61% in Noord-Brabant to 14.90% in Groningen — a spread of 11.71 points across 12 regions, and it led in 11 of 12.
Calculated from the official figures on this page and from the other elections of this type in our archive.
Understanding this election
- How a Constituency Map Gets Built — what happens when no boundary file matches the districts
- 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