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After the polls shut on Thursday, June 6, 2024 at 9:00 PM, the polling station members will begin counting the votes within the polling station. On Friday, June 7, the municipal polling stations will add up the outcomes from the polling stations. The counts are public and events might be current. Municipalities might solely announce the provisional outcomes from 11 p.m. on Sunday, June 9. Then the polls in all member states of the European Union are closed and the election in different nations can’t be influenced. On Wednesday, June 19 at 11 a.m., the Electoral Council will decide the official ends in a public session within the Home of Representatives.
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Counting the votes
Municipalities can depend the votes of their municipality in two methods, decentralized or central. Central counting signifies that the votes per get together can be counted on the polling station on Thursday night, June 6. On Friday, June 7, the municipal polling station will depend the votes from all polling stations at candidate degree and calculate the municipal complete per get together and per candidate. The consequence has not but been introduced. This may occur on Monday, June 10, in the course of the the rest of the municipal polling station session.
Decentralized counting signifies that the polling stations depend the votes per get together and per candidate on the polling station on Thursday night, June 6. On Friday, June 7, the municipal polling station checks the outcomes of the polling stations and calculates the municipal complete. The consequence has not but been introduced. This may occur on Monday, June 10, in the course of the the rest of the municipal polling station session.
The counts by the polling station and the municipal polling station are public. The municipal polling stations will publish the outcomes on the municipality’s web site after the assembly on Monday, June 10.
Important polling stations
The Netherlands is split into 20 electoral districts. Every electoral district has one most important polling station. The principle polling stations add up the outcomes of the municipalities inside their electoral district. On Tuesday, June 11 at 10 a.m., the principle polling stations will decide the outcomes per electoral district. The nationwide postal polling station will decide the outcomes of the postal polling stations for voters overseas on Wednesday, June 12 at 2:30 PM. The outcomes are transferred to the central polling station, the Electoral Council. The official experiences from the polling stations and municipal polling stations are additionally transferred to the Electoral Council.
Dedication of official consequence
The Electoral Council checks the official experiences and investigates outstanding outcomes and experiences from voters about attainable counting errors within the official experiences. The Electoral Council can ask municipal polling stations to conduct additional investigations or perform a recount, if the inspections give cause to take action. After any recounts have been carried out, the Electoral Council calculates the result of the election and the distribution of seats. The Electoral Council will decide the end in a public listening to on June 19 at 11 a.m. within the Home of Representatives. On the finish of that session, the chairman of the Electoral Council arms over the outcomes and the official experiences to the chairman of the Home of Representatives. After the session, the Electoral Council will publish the outcomes on www.kiesraad.nl.
First assembly of the newly elected European Parliament
The Committee for the Investigation of the Credentials of the Home of Representatives can be investigating the conduct of the election from Wednesday 19 June. The Home of Representatives might determine on a recount or a brand new vote at a number of polling stations. The newly elected European Parliament will then meet on July 16, 2024.
