The 2019 election to the

Senate of the Netherlands The Senate ( , literally "First Chamber of the States General", or simply ; sometimes ) is the upper house of the States General, the legislature of the Netherlands. Its 75 members are elected on lists by the members of the twelve States-Provi ...

was held on 27 May 2019, two months after the provincial elections.

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, which took part for the first time, became the largest party. This was later undone by several party splits.

Electoral system

The Senate consists of 75 members elected every four years by the members of the

States-Provincial The provincial council (, PS), also known as the States-Provincial, is the provincial parliament and legislative assembly in each of the provinces of the Netherlands. It is elected for each province simultaneously once every four years and has ...

of the country's twelve provinces, and, following a law change in 2017,

electoral colleges An electoral college is a body whose task is to elect a candidate to a particular office. It is mostly used in the political context for a constitutional body that appoints the head of state or government, and sometimes the upper parliamenta ...

representing the special municipalities of

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and

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, who are in turn elected directly by the citizens two months earlier in the 2019 provincial and electoral college elections. The seats are distributed in one nationwide constituency using

party-list proportional representation Party-list proportional representation (list-PR) is a system of proportional representation based on preregistered Political party, political parties, with each party being Apportionment (politics), allocated a certain number of seats Apportionm ...

. The value of each elector's vote is determined by the population of the province or special municipality which the elector represents, at a ratio of approximately 1 vote per 100 residents.

Seat projections

Results

Electors

Senate

Rutte III lost its majority in the senate.

Results summary

References

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