Elections of the Dutch Senate were held on 26 May 2015. The elected senators were sworn in on 9 June 2015.
2015 Dutch Senate election Turnout 100,0% First party Second party Third party Leader Loek Hermans Elco Brinkman Thom de Graaf Party VVD CDA D66 Last election 16 seats, 20,8% 11 seats, 14.6% 5 seats, 7.6% Seats won 13 12 10 Seat change Popular vote 28,523 25,145 21,997 Percentage 16.9% 14.9% 13.0% Swing Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party Leader Marjolein Faber Tiny Kox Marleen Barth Party PVV SP PvdA Last election 10 seats, 13.1% 8 seats, 10.3% 14 seats, 18.1% Seats won 9 9 8 Seat change Popular vote 20,235 20,038 17,651 Percentage 12.0% 11.9% 10.5% Swing
Electoral system edit
The Senate is elected by the members of the States-Provincial of the country's twelve provinces, who had been directly elected by the citizens two months earlier, in the 2015 provincial elections . The value of a vote is determined by the population of the province in which the voter is a member of the States-Provincial. The seats are distributed in one nationwide constituency using party-list proportional representation .
Province Members Population Value South Holland 55 3,600,784 655 North Holland 55 2,762,163 502 North Brabant 55 2,489,325 453 Gelderland 55 2,026,393 368 Utrecht 49 1,263,509 258 Overijssel 47 1,140,659 243 Limburg 47 1,118,054 238 Friesland 43 646,324 150 Groningen 43 584,104 136 Drenthe 41 488,611 119 Flevoland 41 401,503 98 Zeeland 39 380,717 98
Parties Vote Seats Votes Value Won +/- People's Party for Freedom and Democracy 90 28,523 13 Christian Democratic Appeal 89 25,145 12 Democrats 66 67 21,997 10 Party for Freedom 66 20,235 9 Socialist Party 70 20,038 9 Labour Party 63 17,651 8 GroenLinks 30 9,520 4 Christian Union 32 8,237 3 Party for the Animals 18 6,073 2 Reformed Political Party 17 4,597 2 50PLUS 14 4,388 2 Independent Senate Group 14 2,652 1 Total 570 169,056 75 Source: Kiesraad Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine
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