2025 Dutch general election

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Early general elections were held in the Netherlands on 29 October 2025 to elect the members of the House of Representatives. The elections had been expected to be held in 2028, but a snap election was called after the Schoof cabinet collapsed due to the Party for Freedom (PVV) withdrawing from the coalition. The margin of votes between the first and second placed parties, Democrats 66 (D66) and PVV, was the smallest since 1956. And for the first time since the size of Parliament was last enlarged in 1956, those two leading parties, the social liberal D66 and the right-wing populist PVV, tied in seat counts, each winning 26 seats in the House. D66 achieved their best-ever result in a general election. The parties that were part of the Schoof cabinet—the PVV, the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD), New Social Contract (NSC), and the Farmer–Citizen Movement (BBB)—all lost seats, with NSC receiving a mere fraction of its last vote count and losing all 20 of its seats. The Christian...

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