On this site the results for the elections for the Tweede Kamer/Second Chamber may be found for the period since 1918, by province. Also election results for the Dutch seats in the European Parliament (since 1979), seat distributions for Eerste Kamer/First Chamber/Senate (since 1917) and all 12 Provinciale Staten/Province parliaments may be found here, as well as the results for the 2008 elections for the Waterschappen/Water boards and the results for the 2005 referendum on the European Constitution. Results for local/municipal elections are not provided on this site, links to results of the last three local elections are placed below.
I started this site out of dissatisfaction for the apparent absence of a site which contained historical election results with a bit more detail than just the national results, for all parties (major and minor).
This site also contains some pages which show in which municipality parties have the most or the least support, and which municipalities have election results closest to the national results. Finally this site contains some miscellaneous pages, under ‘miscellaneous’.
The election results for the years 1998, 2002 and 2003 are available by province and also by municipality. Since the results by municipality resulted in quite large html-files, these files are available only as a zip-file. Every zip-file contains only the corresponding html-file (which is converted to a spreadsheet automatically when opened in Excel).
For the number of votes I used publications of the Dutch Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), which were published after each election, and for elections 1918-1929 the yearbook "Parlement & Kiezer". Election results are partially available on the CBS web site, but unfortunately not completely. For the years 1918-1998 only national results are available, using the online CBS Statline database. For these years I used the results from the CBS publications on paper, available in larger Dutch (university) libraries. For the years 2002-now I based myself completely on the online CBS Statline database. For a full overview, see the lists of references (in Dutch) for Second Chamber and Provincial parliaments.
This site is deliberately planned to be simple, using only html. The shown pages are available on request as Excel file, using e-mail. Questions or remarks are of course welcome, on the same address.
Originally, this site was in Dutch only. However, a part of the site has already been translated in English. The remaining Dutch parts are hopefully comprehensible for non-Dutch speakers since they contain only small amounts of text, and may be translated in the near future.
The Dutch electoral council (Kiesraad) placed an introduction to the Dutch electoral system in English on its web site: Link (PDF)
Final results of the European Parliament election 2009 (The Netherlands)
Votes, percentages, seats
1946 1948 1952 1956 1959 1963 1967 1971 1972 1977 1981 1982 1986 1989 1994 1998 2002 2003 2006
The results per municipality may be found on:
NRC Handelsblad (2006)
Kiesraad (1998-2006)
Number of votes 1918-1937 (national results only)
Percentage of votes 1918-1937 (national results only)
Distribution of seats in the Second Chamber 1918-1937 (English)
Distribution of seats in the Second Chamber 1946-2003 (English)
Number of votes:
1946 1948 1952 1956 1959 1963 1967 1971 1972 1977 1981 1982 1986 1989 1994 1998 2002 2003 2006Percentage of votes:
1946 1948 1952 1956 1959 1963 1967 1971 1972 1977 1981 1982 1986 1989 1994 1998 2002 2003 2006
Electorate, turnout; valid, blank, and invalid ballots
Numbers 1925-2006, by province
Percentages 1925-2006, by province
Fictitious seat distribution, by province:
Because of the size of the html-files, these are zip files
Number of votes and percentage of votes:
taken part at least 5 times, including predecessors
Boerenpartij/Farmer's Party (incl. RVP)
The composition of every government after WWII and the length (in days) of every government
The division of the Netherlands in 19 electoral districts
Parties that just missed the electoral threshold. 1937-2006
For which elections are non-Dutch inhabitants of the Netherlands eligible?
Share of provinces in the total number of votes
The 20 municipalities where the results were the closest to the national results and the 20 municipalities with results the farthest away from the national results
Distribution of seats in the First Chamber 1917-2007 (Dutch)
First Chamber (Senate) elections 2003
First Chamber (Senate) elections 2007
Election results for the European Parliament (Dutch seats) (in Dutch)
Votes, percentages, seats
1979 1984 1989 1994 1999 2004 2009
Distribution of the Dutch seats in the European Parliament 1979-2009
Number of votes:
1979 1984 1989 1994 1999 2004 2009
Percentage of votes:
1979 1984 1989 1994 1999 2004 2009
Fictitious seat distribution, by province:
Second Chamber: 1956 1967 1972 1977 1982
1994 1998 2002
2003 2006
Votes, percentages, seats
1946 1950 1954 1958 1962 1966 1970 1974 1978 1982 1987 1991 1995 1999 2003 2007
Provincial elections 2007, by province
| Groningen | Flevoland | Zuid-Holland |
| Friesland | Gelderland | Zeeland |
| Drenthe | Utrecht | Noord-Brabant |
| Overijssel | Noord-Holland | Limburg |
Results for individual municipalities may be found online on these web sites:
NRC Handelsblad
De Volkskrant
Nederlands Dagblad
Provincial elections 2003, by province
| Groningen | Flevoland | Zuid-Holland |
| Friesland | Gelderland | Zeeland |
| Drenthe | Utrecht | Noord-Brabant |
| Overijssel | Noord-Holland | Limburg |
Seat distributions in the Provincial States 1919-now
For every province, only parties that ever managed to win a seat are mentioned, to save space.| Groningen | Flevoland | Zuid-Holland |
| Friesland | Gelderland | Zeeland |
| Drenthe | Utrecht | Noord-Brabant |
| Overijssel | Noord-Holland | Limburg |
The results for the local elections of 1998, 2002 and 2006 are available on the web sites of some newspapers:
Local elections 1998 (link to Reformatorisch Dagblad, the link might not work on Sundays; some smaller non-Calvinist municipalities are missing, primarily in Drenthe, Noord-Holland, Noord-Brabant and Limburg province).
Local elections 2002 (link to De Telegraaf)
Local elections 2006 (link to NRC Handelsblad)
Results for the 2005 referendum on the European Constitution, per province.
Highest and lowest scoring municipalities
Water board elections 2008, by Water Board
In the Netherlands, water boards are a separate layer of government, charged with the control and the management of water. The executive council of the boards have always been elected, at first only by land and home owners, but since the 1990s by all inhabitants. Before 2008 a system of single non-transferable votes without party lists was used, where all candidates were (at least nominally) independent. Since 2008 a system similar to the party list systems of proportional representation used in other Dutch elections has been introduced.
A good map of the Water Boards is available on Wikipedia, as well as an explanation of the function of water boards.
The water board of Blija Buitendijks held no election, since it has no inhabitants.
