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South Holland, Netherlands, regional election 2023

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

Final: 24 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-zuid-holland-2023/Proces-verbaal+uitslag+verkiezing+Provinciale+Staten+Zuid+Holland+2023.pdf. The window was By 24 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-zuid-holland-2023

Result and count stages Provincial Council (Provinciale Staten), 55 seats

Final count

55 seats; a majority is 28.
CandidatePartyVotesShareSeats
BBBFarmer–Citizen Movement203,4178
VVDPeople's Party for Freedom and Democracy195,4788
GROENLINKSGroenLinks145,9046
D66Democrats 66112,0974
Partij van de Arbeid (P.v.d.A.)Labour Party103,8964
PVV (Partij voor de Vrijheid)Party for Freedom95,0624
CDAChristian Democratic Appeal92,5314
JA21JA2191,1134
Partij voor de DierenParty for the Animals72,6643
Staatkundig Gereformeerde Partij (SGP)Reformed Political Party61,5142
ChristenUnieChristian Union61,2832
Forum voor DemocratieForum for Democracy53,0672
SP (Socialistische Partij)Socialist Party50,6162
50PLUS50PLUS45,1861
VoltVolt Netherlands42,6521
DENKDENK22,068
Belang van Nederland (BVNL)Belang van Nederland18,341
AWP voor water, klimaat en natuurAlgemene Waterschapspartij13,797
GOUDGOLD6,105
JEZUS LEEFTJesus Lives1,123
Total votes1,487,91455

Turnout 54.5%: 1,497,994 ballots from 2,747,402 registered voters.

Final result as determined by the central electoral committee (centraal stembureau) of NL-ZH in its public session in 's-Gravenhage, opened 24 Mar 2023 10:00 CET. Votes per list and seats are the committee's own figures; 55 seats, allocated by largest averages among all lists (re-computed by us, matches). Valid votes 1,487,914; blank 5,398; invalid 4,682; ballots 1,497,994; registered voters 2,747,402 (as stated in the proces-verbaal); turnout 54.52% (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), 24 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 South Holland, 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 2023-03-24T09:00:00Z (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-ZH committee's proces-verbaal (model P 22) records the session in 's-Gravenhage as opening on 24 March 2023 at 10:00 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-zuid-holland-2023