We looked at the Dutch cities with the largest international populations to find out how the top five parties performed, with one eye on the local elections next March.

D66 emerged as the biggest party in all but three of the 12 cities followed by Dutch News in election campaigns. In Amsterdam, the GroenLinks-PvdA alliance lost support but held on to first place, while in Maastricht and Almere the far-right PVV remained in top position.

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Amsterdam
In Amsterdam, the GroenLinks-PvdA alliance remained the biggest party with 27.4% of the vote, down from nearly 34% last time. D66 surged into second place with 23.4%, the VVD was down slightly on 7.5%, and Denk, the anti-racism party that has put the Gaza conflict at the heart of its campaign, was fourth with 7.7%. The PVV was fifth in the Dutch capital, with 7.3%.

Amstelveen
In nearby Amstelveen, D66 fought off the VVD, which usually dominates, taking 23.9% of the vote compared with 19.2% for the right-wing Liberals. GL-PvdA were third with 16.6%, the PVV fourth with 10.8%, and the CDA quadrupled its backing to come fifth with 8.2%.

Rotterdam
In Rotterdam, the PVV was the biggest party in 2023 with 21.5% of the vote. Now on 15%, it has been overtaken by D66, up 10 percentage points at 17.1%, and GL-PvdA just behind on 16.9%. Denk added a few more votes in Rotterdam to come fourth with 10.4%, while the VVD was fifth with 9.4%.

Eindhoven
In Eindhoven, D66 was the big winner, more than doubling its share of the vote to 22.1%. GL-PvdA slipped back into second place with 17.3%, while the far-right PVV was third on 11.4%. The VVD was fourth with 12.2%, while the CDA soared from 2.2% in 2023 to 9.3%.

Utrecht
Utrecht is traditionally a GroenLinks city, but here too D66 managed to snatch a win, taking 26.7% of the vote, just 0.7 percentage points ahead of the left-wing green alliance. The VVD lost votes but remained in third place, while PVV support shrank to 6.8%. In Utrecht too, the CDA grew sharply and came fifth with 6.6%, just ahead of Denk on 6%.

The Hague
The PVV was also beaten into third place in The Hague, where D66 surged ahead with 19.8% support and GL-PvdA fell three percentage points to 16.4%. The PVV lost six percentage points to 15.7%, while Denk was fourth on 8.7% and the CDA made significant gains to come fifth with 6.8%.

Delft
It was a similar picture in Delft. D66 support more than doubled, putting the party well ahead of GL-PvdA, which had won in 2023 with 25.9%. D66 won 25.4% support in the university city, with GL-PvdA on 20.2%. The PVV lost around a third of its votes in Delft and fell back to third place with 12.2%. The VVD and CDA were in fourth and fifth place with 9.7% and 9% respectively.

Leiden
In Leiden, D66 narrowly beat the GL-PvdA alliance with 24.9% to 24.4%, a decline of nearly seven percentage points for the left-wing party. The PVV remained third with 10.9%, with the VVD (9.4%) and CDA (7.3%) coming fourth and fifth.

Haarlem
In Haarlem, the PVV was pushed into fourth place by a surge in support for D66, which again more than doubled its backing to 25.4%. GL-PvdA lost over five percentage points and came in at 22.2%. The VVD (11.7%), PVV (10%) and CDA (6.8%) completed the top five.

Maastricht
Limburg city Maastricht bucked the trend, with the PVV remaining the biggest party on 20.8% of the vote, just ahead of D66 with 19.2%. The far-right party is traditionally strong in the south of the country, and leader Geert Wilders comes from nearby Venlo. GL-PvdA was third with 17%, the VVD was virtually unchanged at 12.6%, and the CDA almost quadrupled its score to 9.7%.

Almere
Almere, the newest of the big Dutch cities, also had the PVV on top with 19.2%, a drop of around seven percentage points. D66 was second with 16.7%, roughly three times its previous showing. The VVD on 14.2%, GL-PvdA with 14.1%, and the CDA with 6.3% completed the top five.

Groningen
In Groningen, the capital of the north, D66 and GL-PvdA were virtually neck and neck on 24.4% and 24% respectively, with D66 again more than doubling its vote. The VVD lost a few votes and came in third with 10.2%. The CDA was fourth with 8.7%, and the PVV fifth with 8.4%.

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