2015 Dutch Senate election


Elections of the Dutch Senate were held on 26 May 2015. The elected senators were sworn in on 9 June 2015.

Electoral system

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.
ProvinceMembersPopulationValue
South Holland553,600,784655
North Holland552,762,163502
North Brabant552,489,325453
Gelderland552,026,393368
Utrecht491,263,509258
Overijssel471,140,659243
Limburg471,118,054238
Friesland43646,324150
Groningen43584,104136
Drenthe41488,611119
Flevoland41401,50398
Zeeland39380,71798