2015 Dutch Senate election
The 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 |
Results