Английская Википедия:2011 Dutch provincial elections

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Election board in Groningen

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Largest party by province

Provincial elections were held in the Netherlands on Wednesday 2 March 2011. Eligible voters elected the members of the provincial councils in the twelve provinces. These elections also indirectly determined the members of the Senate, since the 566 members of the twelve provincial councils elected the Senate's 75 members in the Senate election on 23 May 2011.

The Senate election, and therefore the provincial elections, were important since the first Rutte cabinet had a minority in the Senate when it took office. The coalition and support parties hoped to gain a majority in the Senate through these elections, but failed to do so, obtaining 37 out of 75 seats. However, it was expected that the Reformed Political Party, which obtained one seat, would support the cabinet.

On the same date, Island Council elections were held in the three public bodies of the Caribbean Netherlands. It was planned that the members of the Island Councils would also have a vote in the Senate election in the future, but in 2011 this was not yet the case because this required a change in the Constitution. Шаблон:Use dmy dates

Results

Шаблон:Politics of the Netherlands The right-liberal People's Party for Freedom and Democracy, left-liberal Democrats 66, and right-wing Party for Freedom made significant gains throughout the provinces. The Labour Party stayed relatively stable, while the Socialist Party suffered losses from their 2007 results. The Christian Democratic Appeal suffered big losses, losing some 65 of their previous 151 provincial seats. However, the party did not fare as poorly as the polls had suggested.

This was the first provincial elections that Geert Wilders' Party for Freedom participated in. The party managed to win seats in all of the Netherlands' provinces with its best results in the southern provinces of North Brabant and Limburg. In Limburg it even managed to become the biggest party by a slim margin.

National results

Due to population growth in Gelderland, the number of seats in the Provincial Council of Gelderland increased from 53 to 55, accounting for the increase in the total number of seats from 564 to 566.

By province

Province	Number of seats per party
	VVD	PvdA	CDA	PVV	SP	D66	GL	CU	SGP	50+	PvdD	remaining	total
Groningen	6	12	5	3	6	3	3	3	-	0	1	1	43
Friesland	6	11	8	4	3	2	2	3	-	0	-	4	43
Drenthe	9	12	6	4	4	2	2	2	0	0	-	0	41
Overijssel	8	9	11	4	4	3	2	3	2	1	0	0	47
Flevoland	9	6	4	6	3	3	2	3	1	1	1	0	39
Gelderland	11	9	9	6	5	4	4	3	2	1	1	0	55
Utrecht	11	7	6	5	4	5	4	2	1	1	1	0	47
North Holland	13	11	5	6	5	6	5	1		1	1	1	55
South Holland	12	10	6	8	5	5	3	2	2	1	1	0	55
Zeeland	7	7	6	5	3	2	1	2	4	0	0	2	39
North Brabant	12	7	10	8	8	5	3	0		1	1	0	55
Limburg	8	6	10	10	6	2	3	0	-	2	0	0	47
Total	112	107	86	69	56	42	34	23	12	9	7	8	566
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A "-" in the table means that the relevant party did not submit a list of candidates in the 2011 elections in the province concerned.

Island council elections

Political party	2007	2011	change
Bonaire island council
Union Patriotiko Boneriano (UPB)	5	4	-1
Partido Demokrátiko Boneriano (PDB)	4	3	-1
Partido Pro Hustisia & Union (PHU)	-	1	+1
Movementu Boneiru Liber (MBL)	-	1	+1
total	9	9
turnout	83%	75%
Saba island council
Windward Islands People's Movement (WIPM)	4	4	-
Saba Labour Party (SLP)	1	1	-
total	5	5
turnout		88%
Sint Eustatius island council
Democratische Partij (DP)	4	2	-2
Progressive Labour Party (PLP)	1	1	-
United People’s Coalition (UPC)	-	1	+1
St. Eustatius Empowerment Party (STEP)	-	1	+1
total	5	5
turnout		68%

External links

• Provinciale Statenverkiezingen 2011 States-Provincial Election 2011 from NRC Handelsblad (Dutch)