Election Name: | 2015 Dutch Senate election |
Country: | Netherlands |
Type: | parliamentary |
Ongoing: | no |
Previous Election: | 2011 Dutch Senate election |
Previous Year: | 2011 |
Next Election: | 2019 Dutch Senate election |
Next Year: | 2019 |
Seats For Election: | All 75 seats to the Senate 38 seats are needed for a majority |
Election Date: | 26 May 2015 |
Leader1: | Loek Hermans |
Party1: | People's Party for Freedom and Democracy |
Last Election1: | 16 seats, 20,8% |
Seats1: | 13 |
Seat Change1: | 3 |
Popular Vote1: | 28,523 |
Percentage1: | 16.9% |
Swing1: | 3.9% |
Leader2: | Elco Brinkman |
Party2: | Christian Democratic Appeal |
Last Election2: | 11 seats, 14.6% |
Seats2: | 12 |
Seat Change2: | 1 |
Popular Vote2: | 25,145 |
Percentage2: | 14.9% |
Swing2: | 0.3% |
Leader3: | Thom de Graaf |
Party3: | Democrats 66 |
Last Election3: | 5 seats, 7.6% |
Seats3: | 10 |
Seat Change3: | 5 |
Popular Vote3: | 21,997 |
Percentage3: | 13.0% |
Swing3: | 5.4% |
Leader4: | Marjolein Faber |
Party4: | Party for Freedom |
Last Election4: | 10 seats, 13.1% |
Seats4: | 9 |
Seat Change4: | 1 |
Popular Vote4: | 20,235 |
Percentage4: | 12.0% |
Swing4: | 1.1% |
Leader5: | Tiny Kox |
Party5: | Socialist Party (Netherlands) |
Last Election5: | 8 seats, 10.3% |
Seats5: | 9 |
Seat Change5: | 1 |
Popular Vote5: | 20,038 |
Percentage5: | 11.9% |
Swing5: | 1.6% |
Leader6: | Marleen Barth |
Party6: | Labour Party (Netherlands) |
Last Election6: | 14 seats, 18.1% |
Seats6: | 8 |
Seat Change6: | 6 |
Popular Vote6: | 17,651 |
Percentage6: | 10.5% |
Swing6: | 7.6 |
Map Size: | 300px |
President | |
Before Election: | Ankie Broekers-Knol |
Before Party: | People's Party for Freedom and Democracy |
After Election: | Ankie Broekers-Knol |
After Party: | People's Party for Freedom and Democracy |
Turnout: | 100,0% |
Elections of the Dutch Senate were held on 26 May 2015. The elected senators were sworn in on 9 June 2015.
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 | 3 | |
Christian Democratic Appeal | 89 | 25,145 | 12 | 1 | |
Democrats 66 | 67 | 21,997 | 10 | 5 | |
Party for Freedom | 66 | 20,235 | 9 | 1 | |
Socialist Party | 70 | 20,038 | 9 | 1 | |
Labour Party | 63 | 17,651 | 8 | 6 | |
GroenLinks | 30 | 9,520 | 4 | 1 | |
Christian Union | 32 | 8,237 | 3 | 1 | |
Party for the Animals | 18 | 6,073 | 2 | 1 | |
Reformed Political Party | 17 | 4,597 | 2 | 1 | |
50PLUS | 14 | 4,388 | 2 | 1 | |
Independent Senate Group | 14 | 2,652 | 1 | ||
Total | 570 | 169,056 | 75 | ||
align=left colspan=6 | Source: Kiesraad | ||||