1946 Dutch Senate election

Elections for all 50 seats in the Senate of the Netherlands were held on 12 July 1946. The snap election was the first held after the end of World War II.
Senators were elected by provincial councils in four "electoral groups". Group I comprised North Brabant, Zeeland, Utrecht and Limburg; group II comprised Gelderland, Overijssel, Groningen and Drenthe; group III comprised North Holland and Friesland; and group IV comprised South Holland. Within each electoral group, Senators were elected by provincial councils using party-list proportional representation. Provincial councillors' votes were weighted to their province's population.
The incumbent government, consisting of the Catholic People's Party and the Labour Party won a combined majority of 31 seats. The Communist Party of the Netherlands entered the Senate for the first time with four seats.