Oct 19, 2023 at 11:51 am
Nearly 109,000 Dutch people living abroad can vote in the House of Representatives elections in November. For the first time, more than 100,000 ‘non-residents’ are registered as voters.
In the 2021 House of Representatives elections, almost 93,000 Dutch people were allowed to vote abroad.
Most voters live in Germany (21,477), Belgium (17,500) or France (9,738), reports the municipality of The Hague, which registers voters abroad and receives and counts their votes. The top ten also includes the United Kingdom, Spain, the United States, Switzerland, Sweden, Australia and Portugal.
The total number could still increase. Registration for Dutch people living abroad is closed. But people who live in the Netherlands and are abroad on election day – for example for work – can also vote from abroad. They have until next Wednesday to register for it.
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Compatriots abroad receive ballot papers at home
More than thirteen hundred voters are allowed to vote in Curaçao and more than five hundred people in Aruba. It is not known how many voters there are on Sint Maarten. These are independent countries within the Kingdom of the Netherlands. Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba are special municipalities and together form their own electoral district within the Netherlands.
The foreign voters are in a so-called permanent register. These people will automatically receive a ballot paper by post before the elections. They must send this to the municipality of The Hague, to an embassy or to a consulate.
For a few years now, people have only had to register once. In the past, compatriots in another country had to register again for every election.
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