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Friesland, Netherlands, regional election 2023

Polling day . Counted by Electoral Council. Times are Amsterdam time; hover for UTC.

Final: 23 Mar 2023

Final result declared Amsterdam time, published by the authority: kiesraad.nl/site/binaries/site-content/collections/documents/2023/3/27/proces-verbaal-uitslag-verkiezing-provinciale-staten-fryslan-2023/Proces-verbaal+uitslag+verkiezing+Provinciale+Staten+Fryslan+2023.pdf. The window was By 23 Mar 2023.

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data.overheid.nl/dataset/verkiezingsuitslag-provinciale-staten-2023
kiesraad.nl/documenten/2023/3/27/proces-verbaal-uitslag-verkiezing-provinciale-staten-fryslan-2023

Result and count stages Provincial Council (Provinciale Staten), 43 seats

Final count

43 seats; a majority is 22.
CandidatePartyVotesShareSeats
BBBFarmer–Citizen Movement94,45814
Partij van de Arbeid (P.v.d.A.)Labour Party36,0235
CDAChristian Democratic Appeal29,6694
FNPFrisian National Party27,2984
VVDPeople's Party for Freedom and Democracy22,8433
GROENLINKSGroenLinks22,1813
ChristenUnieChristian Union17,8832
PVV (Partij voor de Vrijheid)Party for Freedom15,1022
Forum voor DemocratieForum for Democracy12,3661
SP (Socialistische Partij)Socialist Party11,7241
Partij voor de DierenParty for the Animals11,4021
D66Democrats 6611,2371
JA21JA219,0961
Provinciaal Belang FryslânProvincial Interest Frisia6,8911
Belang van Nederland (BVNL)Belang van Nederland6,033
50PLUS50PLUS2,903
AWP voor Water, Klimaat en NatuurAlgemene Waterschapspartij1,971
Total votes339,08043

Turnout 65.6%: 340,654 ballots from 519,118 registered voters.

Final result as determined by the central electoral committee (centraal stembureau) of NL-FR in its public session in Leeuwarden, opened 23 Mar 2023 16:00 CET. Votes per list and seats are the committee's own figures; 43 seats, allocated by largest averages among all lists (re-computed by us, matches). Valid votes 339,080; blank 844; invalid 730; ballots 340,654; registered voters 519,118 (as stated in the proces-verbaal); turnout 65.62% (valid+blank+invalid / registered). Figures from the central committee's EML files in the Kiesraad dataset; the timestamp in the proces-verbaal footer matches the EML result file, so the report was printed from these figures. Published by Kiesraad (from the central electoral committee's proces-verbaal), 23 Mar 2023: data.overheid.nl/sites/default/files/dataset/be8b7869-4a12-4446-abab-5cd0a436dc4f/resources/EML_bestanden_PS2023_deel_1.zip. CC0 1.0.

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Questions and answers

When is the Friesland, Netherlands, regional election 2023?
Polling day is 2023-03-15 (officially set).
When will the final result of the Provincial Council (Provinciale Staten) race be official?
Expected between polls close and 2023-03-23T15:00:00Z (UTC), confidence announced. Kieswet art. P 20: the central electoral committee determines the result and the seat allocation in a public session, as soon as possible but not before the eighth day after polling day (Thu 23 Mar 2023 for polling on Wed 15 Mar). The NL-FR committee's proces-verbaal (model P 22) records the session in Leeuwarden as opening on 23 March 2023 at 16:00 CET; observedAt is that opening time, the result being announced in that session. The Kiesraad posted the report on kiesraad.nl on 27 Mar 2023.
Where are the official Provincial Council (Provinciale Staten) results?
https://data.overheid.nl/dataset/verkiezingsuitslag-provinciale-staten-2023, https://www.kiesraad.nl/documenten/2023/3/27/proces-verbaal-uitslag-verkiezing-provinciale-staten-fryslan-2023