Netherlands Provincial elections 2023 — Results
Election day: March 15, 2023
- Farmer–Citizen Movement (BBB): 19.19%
- People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD): 11.17%
- GreenLeft (GL): 8.96%
- Labour Party (PvdA): 8.12%
- Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA): 6.64%
- Democrats 66 (D66): 6.34%
- Party for Freedom (PVV): 5.76%
- Party for the Animals (PvdD): 4.83%
Turnout: 58.64%
About this election
How the voting works
The twelve provinces each elect their councils by proportional representation, and those councillors elect the 75-member Senate (Eerste Kamer). Provincial elections are thus the indirect gateway to the upper house, which makes a sweeping provincial result a national event. BBB's victory translated, in the May 2023 Senate election, into the largest bloc in the chamber.
Compiled and reviewed from official results by ElectioMap. See our data methodology.
In numbers
- 8.02 points separated Farmer–Citizen Movement (BBB) from People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD).
- The top two shared 30.36% of the vote between them, and 7 lists cleared 5%.
- Support for Farmer–Citizen Movement (BBB) ranged from 33.41% in Drenthe to 13.16% in Utrecht — a spread of 20.25 points across 12 regions, and it led in 12 of 12.
- Turnout of 58.64% is the highest of the 3 provincial electionss covered here since 2015.
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