2015 Dutch Senate election

2015 Dutch Senate election

26 May 2015
All 75 seats to the Senate 38 seats are needed for a majority
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 3 1 5 Popular vote 28,523 25,145 21,997 Percentage 16.9% 14.9% 13.0% Swing 3.9% 0.3% 5.4%   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 1 1 6 Popular vote 20,235 20,038 17,651 Percentage 12.0% 11.9% 10.5% Swing 1.1% 1.6% 7.6
President before election Ankie Broekers-Knol VVD Elected President Ankie Broekers-Knol VVD

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.

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
Source: Kiesraad[1]

• List of candidates in the 2015 Dutch Senate election