The Dutch electoral council on Friday confirmed the results of the October 29 general election, saying that the liberal democratic party D66 had 29,668 more votes than the far-right PVV.

That is around 1,000 more than news agency ANP had estimated.

The confirmed results do not change the division of seats in the 150-seat lower house of parliament. Both D66 and the PVV have won 26, the VVD 22, GroenLinks-PvdA 20 and the CDA 18.

As expected, five women have been elected to parliament based on preference votes, four for the GL-PvdA alliance and one for D66.

Kiesraad chairman Wim Kuijken said at a press conference on Friday morning that the results are reliable and that no significant anomalies had been identified. Counting, he said, is done by hand and there were a few mistakes in the maths.

Immediately after the vote, PVV leader Geert Wilders had recirculated several unverified social media posts which suggested irregularities in some places.

The confirmed results also mean Nieuw Sociaal Contract, the party founded by Peter Omtzigt in 2023 and which won 20 seats in parliament in November that year, definitely disappears altogether, while the “pensioners’ party” 50Plus returns with two MPs.

The far-right JA21 and Forum voor Democratie have nine and seven respectively, BBB has four, while the SP, Denk, ChristenUnie, SGP and pro-animal PvdD all have three MPs. Pro-EU party Volt has one – and that means the backing of less than 1% of the electorate.

In total, 15 parties will be represented in the lower house of parliament, none of which have the support of more than 17% of voters.