2010 Dutch general election

The 2010 Dutch general election to elect the members of the House of Representatives was held on 9 June 2010.

The conservative liberal People's Party for Freedom and Democracy won the most seats. Mark Rutte became the prime minister shortly after the election. The Christian Democratic Appeal lost the most seats in this election, while the Party for Freedom won the most.^[1]^[2]

Results

Party	Shortened	Seats	+/–	Votes	Vote %	Party leader
People's Party for Freedom and Democracy	VVD	31	Increase 9	1,929,575	20.5%	Mark Rutte
Labour Party	PvdA	30	File:Decrease2.svg 3	1,848,805	19.6%	Job Cohen
Party for Freedom	PVV	24	Increase 15	1,454,493	15.4%	Geert Wilders
Christian Democratic Appeal	CDA	21	File:Decrease2.svg 20	1,281,886	13.6%	Jan Peter Balkenende
Socialist Party	SP	15	File:Decrease2.svg 10	924,696	9.8%	Emile Roemer
Democrats 66	D66	10	Increase 7	654,167	7.0%	Alexander Pechtold
GreenLeft	GL	10	Increase 3	628,096	6.7%	Femke Halsema
ChristianUnion	CU	5	File:Decrease2.svg 1	305,094	3.2%	André Rouvoet
Reformed Political Party	SGP	2	Steady 0	163,581	1.7%	Kees van der Staaij
Party for the Animals	PvdD	2	Steady 0	122,317	1.3%	Marianne Thieme
others		0	Steady 0	103,291	1.1%
Total		150	0	9,416,001	100%

Election results by municipality.

NSD: European Election Database - Netherlands Archived 2010-11-30 at the Wayback Machine publishes regional level election data; allows for comparisons of election results, 1994–2010
(nl) Tweede Kamerverkiezingen 2010, Parlement.com