2019 Dutch provincial elections
Provincial elections were held in the Netherlands on 20 March 2019. Eligible voters elected the members of the Provincial States in the twelve provinces of the Netherlands. The elections were held on the same day as the 2019 Dutch water boards elections and, in the Caribbean Netherlands, island council elections.
These elections also indirectly determine the composition of the Senate, since the members of the twelve provincial states will elect the Senate's 75 members in the Senate election on 27 May, two months after the provincial elections. Because of this, the provincial elections were a test for the third Rutte cabinet, which currently has a majority of one seat in the Senate, but is expected to lose that majority.
Seats summary
2015 provincial election
2019
Detailed results
National
By province
Drenthe
Flevoland
Friesland
Gelderland
Groningen
Limburg
North Brabant
North Holland
Overijssel
South Holland
Utrecht
Zeeland
Coalition talks
Coalition talks in the Netherlands are customarily organized by informateurs appointed by the party that came first in the elections, and then, in the event of a failure, by other parties. Informateurs usually submit a public report on possible coalitions in the weeks following the election.| Province | Informateur | Occupation / Reputation |
| Groningen | Mario Post | Former GL leader in the Estates |
| Friesland | :nl:Harry van der Molen|Harry van der Molen | MP for CDA, Former City councillor of Leeuwarden |
| Drenthe | Roelie Goettsch | Former PvdA leader in the Estates |
| Overijssel | :nl:Geert Jansen |Geert Jansen, then | Province's former Queen's Commissioner, CDA member |
| Overijssel | Bart Krol | Former CDA member of the Utrecht Estates |
| Flevoland | Annemarie van Gaal | Entrepreneur |
| Gelderland | :nl:Mark Boumans|Mark Boumans | Mayor of Doetinchem, former Executive in Groningen |
| Utrecht | Bram van Ojik | Former leader of GL |
| North Holland | Hans Smits, then | Former Director of the Schiphol airport |
| North Holland | :nl:Laura Bromet|Laura Bromet and :nl:Cornelis Mooij|Cornelis Mooij | MPs for GL and VVD |
| South Holland | Hans Wiegel | Former leader of VVD, Friesland's former Queen's Commissioner |
| Zeeland | :nl:René Verhulst|René Verhulst | Mayor of Ede |
| North Brabant | :nl:Helmi Huijbregts-Schiedon|Helmi Huijbregts | Senator for VVD |
| Limburg | Ger Koopmans | Leader of the CDA fraction in the Estates, former MP |