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General elections were held in the Netherlands from 15 to 17 March 2021 to elect all 150 members of the House of Representatives. [1] Following the elections and lengthy coalition formation talks, the sitting government remained in power.
The preference threshold for this election was 17,372 votes (25% of the electoral threshold). Three candidates would have not been elected based on position on the list, but received enough preference votes: Lisa Westerveld , Kauthar Bouchallikht (both GroenLinks ) and Marieke Koekkoek ( Volt ).
The members were elected during the general election of 17 March 2021. Sixteen parties were elected to the House, the highest number since 1918 . [ 1 ] After the election, the Fourth Rutte cabinet was formed for this term, consisting of People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD, 34 seats), Democrats 66 (D66, 24 seats), Christian Democratic ...
Far-right figure Geert Wilders and his Party for Freedom (PVV), won a shock victory in one of the biggest Dutch political upsets since World War Two. The country voted in a general election on ...
Events from the year 2021 in the Netherlands. Incumbents. Monarch: ... 15–17 March – A general election for the House of Representatives took place.
Dutch Muslims expressed shock on Thursday at the election win of far-right populist Geert Wilders, who has previously called for mosques and the Koran to be banned in the Netherlands. Wilders and ...
Early general elections were held in the Netherlands on 22 November 2023 to elect the members of the House of Representatives. [1] [2] The elections had been expected to be held in 2025, but a snap election was called after the fourth Rutte cabinet collapsed on 7 July 2023 due to disagreements on immigration policy between the coalition parties. [3]
The Netherlands on Thursday kicks off four days of voting in European Union parliamentary elections across the 27 member states that are expected to deliver gains for the hard right. The ...