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Dutch provincial elections, 2015

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Dutch provincial elections, 2015

Provincial elections were held in the Netherlands on Wednesday 18 March 2015. Eligible voters elected the members of the States-Provincial in the twelve provinces. These elections also indirectly determined the members of the Senate, since the 566 members of the twelve States-Provincial will elect the Senate's 75 members in the Senate election on 26 May 2015.

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Participating parties

Eight political parties participated in the elections in all of the country's twelve provinces:

  • Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA)
  • Democrats 66 (D66)
  • GreenLeft (GL)
  • Labour Party (PvdA)
  • Party for Freedom (PVV)
  • 50PLUS
  • Socialist Party (SP)
  • People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD)
  • National results

    The table below shows the total number of seats in all provinces. On March 23, the official results of the 2015 election were published. The two parties which lost most seats were PvdA and VVD, the parties in the national government at the time of the election.

    Opinion polls

    In the table below the % of voters based on various polls.

    References

    Dutch provincial elections, 2015 Wikipedia