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Overijssel, 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-overijssel-2023/Proces-verbaal+uitslag+verkiezing+Provinciale+Staten+Overijssel+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-overijssel-2023

Result and count stages Provincial Council (Provinciale Staten), 47 seats

Final count

47 seats; a majority is 24.
CandidatePartyVotesShareSeats
BBBFarmer–Citizen Movement185,92117
CDAChristian Democratic Appeal48,4884
VVDPeople's Party for Freedom and Democracy47,0744
GROENLINKSGroenLinks43,8254
Partij van de Arbeid (P.v.d.A.)Labour Party39,5993
ChristenUnieChristian Union34,8073
PVV (Partij voor de Vrijheid)Party for Freedom28,8642
Staatkundig Gereformeerde Partij (SGP)Reformed Political Party21,6212
D66Democrats 6621,2702
JA21JA2121,0462
Partij voor de DierenParty for the Animals21,0101
SP (Socialistische Partij)Socialist Party17,6321
VoltVolt Netherlands17,6171
Forum voor DemocratieForum for Democracy16,0911
Samen Lokaal TwenteTogether Local Twente9,035
50PLUS50PLUS7,114
AlliantieAlliantie4,794
Belang van Nederland (BVNL)Belang van Nederland4,615
JEZUS LEEFTJesus Lives701
Total votes591,12447

Turnout 65.1%: 594,192 ballots from 913,363 registered voters.

Final result as determined by the central electoral committee (centraal stembureau) of NL-OV in its public session in Zwolle, opened 23 Mar 2023 17:00 CET. Votes per list and seats are the committee's own figures; 47 seats, allocated by largest averages among all lists (re-computed by us, matches). Valid votes 591,124; blank 1,649; invalid 1,419; ballots 594,192; registered voters 913,363 (as stated in the proces-verbaal); turnout 65.06% (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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Provenance: Kiesraad open data, verkiezingsuitslag-provinciale-staten-2023 (EML, central committee files); session time and electorate from the committee's proces-verbaal on kiesraad.nl; party ids from Wikidata (CC BY 4.0 (Election Index); vote counts CC0 1.0 (Kiesraad)). Last verified 2026-09-30.

Questions and answers

When is the Overijssel, 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 2023-03-23T16:00:00Z (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-OV committee's proces-verbaal (model P 22) records the session in Zwolle as opening on 23 March 2023 at 17:00 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-overijssel-2023