2023 Dutch provincial elections

Provincial elections were held in the Netherlands on 15 March 2023, on the same day as the water board elections, as well as island council elections in the Caribbean Netherlands.

2023 Dutch provincial elections
15 March 2023
All 572 seats in the provincial councils
Party % Seats +/–
BBB 19.19% 137 New
VVD 11.17% 63 −17
GL 8.96% 51 −8
PvdA 8.12% 46 −3
CDA 6.64% 43 −29
D66 6.34% 32 −9
PVV 5.76% 34 −6
PvdD 4.83% 25 +5
JA21 4.40% 22 New
SP 4.24% 23 −12
CU 3.66% 22 −9
FvD 3.07% 15 −71
Volt 3.00% 11 New
SGP 2.52% 16 +2
50+ 2.30% 8 −9
OPNL 2.20% 16 +3
GL/PvdA 0.32% 6 0
CU–SGP 0.22% 1 0
PvhN 0.11% 1 −1
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.

The elections resulted in a victory for the Farmer–Citizen Movement, which had been formed three years prior; the BBB won the popular vote and the most seats in all twelve provinces. (It tied for most seats with the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy in North and South Holland, and with GroenLinks in Utrecht.) It was the first time in Dutch history a political party managed to win the popular vote in all twelve provinces.

These elections also indirectly determined the composition of the Senate, for the members of the twelve provincial states, alongside electoral colleges elected on the same day, elected the Senate's 75 members in the Senate election on 30 May, two months after the provincial elections.

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