# Dutch elections 2025

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dutch-elections-2025/1024412>\
**Category:** Politics & Elections\
**Created:** [October 30, 2025, 7:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dutch-elections-2025/1024412 "2025-10-30T07:41:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![PatrickLondon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/patricklondon/32/4422_2.png) [@PatrickLondon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatrickLondon)\
**Post date:** [October 30, 2025, 7:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dutch-elections-2025/1024412/1 "2025-10-30T07:41:47Z")

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The election was brought on because the leading far-right populist (Wilders/PVV) collapsed the government it had been allowed to lead, because the other parties wouldn’t accept all of his proposals. And the election results show a considerable set-back for him.

Still one of the largest parties, but losing a third of their seats. The chief gainers are D66 (centrists), now neck and neck with the PVV, and the mainstream conservative/Christian Democrat CDA, with smaller gains for a couple of minor far-right parties. The left-wing Green/Labour (GL/PvdA) and to a lesser extent the mainstream liberal conservatives (VVD) also lost support.

Looks like a clear rejection of the last government and Wilders and the PVV in particular

Now the processes of consultation and negotiation to form a government start to grind….

> **[Centrist D66 party makes huge gains in Dutch election](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/29/exit-poll-suggests-progressive-d66-party-will-become-largest-in-dutch-parliament?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other)**
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> Result opens a path for D66 leader Rob Jetten to form a government as the youngest ever prime minister of the Netherlands

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**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\
**Post date:** [October 30, 2025, 10:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dutch-elections-2025/1024412/2 "2025-10-30T10:52:44Z")

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Good. Wilders’s natural role is to be a crackpot yelling at the clouds of change from the sidelines. Put him back there and let him squawk.

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**Author:** ![PatrickLondon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/patricklondon/32/4422_2.png) [@PatrickLondon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatrickLondon)\
**Post date:** [October 30, 2025, 11:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dutch-elections-2025/1024412/3 "2025-10-30T11:52:25Z")

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An interesting “explainer”:

[https://youtu.be/treEz-\_bSR/](https://youtu.be/treEz-_bSRI?si=NgbMqPxyh6ivxg4a)

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**Author:** ![Hari\_Seldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hari_seldon/32/5173_2.png) [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\
**Post date:** [October 31, 2025, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dutch-elections-2025/1024412/4 "2025-10-31T00:41:47Z")

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The Votemaster is an American who spent most of his career in the Netherlands. Here is his take:

> **[Dutch Election Was Held Yesterday](https://www.electoral-vote.com/evp2025/Items/Oct30-8.html)**
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> Click on the map for the article