Elections of the
Dutch Senate
The Senate ( , literally "First Chamber of the States General", or simply ; sometimes ) is the upper house of the States General, the legislature of the Netherlands. Its 75 members are elected on lists by the members of the twelve States-Provi ...
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
The provincial council (, PS), also known as the States-Provincial, is the provincial parliament and legislative assembly in each of the provinces of the Netherlands. It is elected for each province simultaneously once every four years and has ...
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
Party-list proportional representation (list-PR) is a system of proportional representation based on preregistered Political party, political parties, with each party being Apportionment (politics), allocated a certain number of seats Apportionm ...
.
Results
See also
*
List of candidates in the 2015 Dutch Senate election
References
{{Members of the Senate of the Netherlands, 2015–present
2015
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Events
January
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Senate
A senate is a deliberative assembly, often the upper house or chamber of a bicameral legislature. The name comes from the ancient Roman Senate (Latin: ''Senatus''), so-called as an assembly of the senior (Latin: ''senex'' meaning "the el ...