Provisional results of Noorderzijlvest elections announced

This afternoon, the preliminary results of the water board election for Noorderzijlvest Water Authority were Noorderzijlvest Water Authority by dyke reeve van der Schaaf. In the Noorderzijlvest area, 292,199 voters were eligible to cast their ballots for a total of 11 parties with 190 candidates. A total of 172,866 votes were cast. This brings the voter turnout to 59.2%. That is nearly 6% higher than in 2019.

Preliminary seat allocation

Of the 23 seats, 4 are reserved. Two of these are for the natural areas category and two for the undeveloped land category. 

The provisional distribution of the remaining 19 seats is as follows (the number of seats in 2019 is shown in parentheses):

(*: This team is participating for the first time)

PartySeats 2023Seats 2019
1. Water Natuurlijk65
2. Partij van de Arbeid (P.v.d.A.)33
3. ChristenUnie    12
4. CDA    12
5. Betaalbaar Water12
6. VVD11
7. 50PLUS    01
8. Groninger Belang10*
9. Student & Water10*
10. BBB    40*
11. Belang van Nederland (BVNL)00*

View preliminary results

You can watch the announcement of the preliminary results at:

Final results

The final results will be announced on Thursday, March 23, at 10:00 a.m. during a public session of the central election committee. It will also be announced at that time whether any candidates have been elected based on preferential votes. The session will take place in the AB Room of the Water Board building and can be viewed via:

On March 27, the water authority will Board of Directors to the outgoing board of directors water authority a public meeting of the Board of Directors .

On Wednesday, March 29, the new board will take office by taking the oath of office.