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Utrecht, 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-utrecht-2023/Proces-verbaal+uitslag+verkiezing+Provinciale+Staten+Utrecht+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-utrecht-2023

Result and count stages Provincial Council (Provinciale Staten), 49 seats

Final count

49 seats; a majority is 25.
CandidatePartyVotesShareSeats
BBBFarmer–Citizen Movement85,8907
GROENLINKSGroenLinks83,9047
VVDPeople's Party for Freedom and Democracy77,4616
D66Democrats 6660,8355
CDAChristian Democratic Appeal52,2234
Partij van de Arbeid (P.v.d.A.)Labour Party44,2953
Partij voor de DierenParty for the Animals36,8833
ChristenUnieChristian Union35,9873
VoltVolt Netherlands30,0322
JA21JA2128,1802
PVV (Partij voor de Vrijheid)Party for Freedom26,6672
Staatkundig Gereformeerde Partij (SGP)Reformed Political Party24,7242
SP (Socialistische Partij)Socialist Party16,8801
Forum voor DemocratieForum for Democracy13,4981
50PLUS50PLUS11,6251
DENKDENK10,356
U26 GEMEENTENU26 Municipalities7,646
Belang van Nederland (BVNL)Belang van Nederland4,666
ZWARTE PIET IS ZWARTBLACK PETE IS BLACK742
Total votes652,49449

Turnout 63.4%: 655,813 ballots from 1,033,686 registered voters.

Final result as determined by the central electoral committee (centraal stembureau) of NL-UT in its public session in Utrecht, opened 24 Mar 2023 13:00 CET. Votes per list and seats are the committee's own figures; 49 seats, allocated by largest averages among all lists (re-computed by us, matches). Valid votes 652,494; blank 1,894; invalid 1,425; ballots 655,813; registered voters 1,033,686 (as stated in the proces-verbaal); turnout 63.44% (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 Utrecht, 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 2023-03-24T12:00:00Z (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-UT committee's proces-verbaal (model P 22) records the session in Utrecht as opening on 24 March 2023 at 13:00 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-utrecht-2023