Netherlands Provincial elections 2019 — Results
Election day: March 20, 2019
- Forum for Democracy (FvD): 14.53%
- People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD): 13.99%
- Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA): 11.07%
- GreenLeft (GL): 10.76%
- Labour Party (PvdA): 8.52%
- Democrats 66 (D66): 7.80%
- Party for Freedom (PVV): 6.94%
- Socialist Party (SP): 5.91%
Turnout: 56.16%
About this election
How the voting works
The twelve provinces each elect their council by proportional representation, and the councillors in turn elect the Senate (Eerste Kamer). The 2019 contest was the first provincial election since Forum for Democracy had entered the House of Representatives in 2017, and the party treated it as a national breakthrough opportunity. Because Senate seats are apportioned from the provincial results, the stakes for the governing coalition's ability to pass laws were high.
Compiled and reviewed from official results by ElectioMap. See our data methodology.
In numbers
- 0.54 points separated Forum for Democracy (FvD) from People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD).
- The top two shared 28.52% of the vote between them, and 8 lists cleared 5%.
- Support for Forum for Democracy (FvD) ranged from 17.79% in Flevoland to 10.22% in Groningen — a spread of 7.57 points across 12 regions, and it led in 3 of 12.
- Turnout was 56.16%, up 8.40 points on 2015.
Calculated from the official figures on this page and from the other elections of this type in our archive.
Understanding this election
- D’Hondt vs Sainte-Laguë — how a divisor formula turns vote shares into seats
- 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