Electoral Council confirms: VVD 34 seats, D66 24 and four newcomers | Inland

The VVD will receive one more seat than in the 2017 elections. D66 has 5 more MPs than in the past four years.

The PVV drops from 20 to 17 seats and the CDA goes from 19 to 15 seats. The SP (from 14 to 9) and GroenLinks (from 14 to 8) are also losing ground. The PvdA remains at 9 seats. Forum for Democracy rises from 2 to 8 seats. The Party for the Animals will be given an additional seat and will go from 5 to 6 MPs. The ChristenUnie (5), SGP (3) and DENK (3) remain the same size. 50Plus keeps one of its 4 seats.

Volt and JA21 come into the Chamber with 3 seats. BIJ1 and the BoerBurgerBeweging will each receive 1 seat.

Thanks to preferential votes in the House

Thanks to preferential votes, three people come to the House of Representatives. They were actually too low on the list of candidates and thus seemed to grab a seat, but they appear to have received enough votes themselves for a seat in Parliament.

Two of the three were candidates for GroenLinks. Lisa Westerveld and Kauthar Bouchallikht are allowed to go to Parliament. This is at the expense of Suzanne Kröger and Paul Smeulders. At Volt, not Ernst Boutkan will join the fraction, but Marieke Koekkoek.

69,485.68 votes were required for a full seat in the House of Representatives. This is the quota. This is calculated by dividing the number of valid votes (10,422,852 this year) by 150, the number of seats in the House of Representatives. A quarter of that quota, ie 17,371.42 votes, is enough for a preferred seat. This is the preferred threshold. A total of 43 candidates have reached that threshold, but most of them have already been elected because they were high enough on the candidate list, like the party leaders.

A candidate has received enough votes for a preferred seat, but will still not be in the House. This is the outgoing Member of Parliament Femke Merel van Kooten-Arissen, party leader for the new party Splinter. Her party did not receive enough votes for a parliamentary seat, and is therefore not eligible for a preferred seat.

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