Emmen: PVV would still come first on today's polls
Emmen (Drenthe) has 87,342 voters. Below: how it voted at the general election of October 2025, and the same figures moved to today's national polls. The next council elections are in March 2030.
- 87,342voters
- 21.8%PVV on today's polls (Netherlands: 12.6%)
- 28.2%PVV, first at the general election of October 2025
Today's polls here, against the general election of October 2025
- PVV 28.2% → 21.8%
- PRO 9.5% → 14.6%
- FvD 7.4% → 11.8%
- JA21 5.8% → 11.6%
- CDA 12.3% → 8.5%
- VVD 12.7% → 8.1%
- D66 10.4% → 5.9%
- 50PLUS 2.3% → 4.9%
- SP 2.3% → 3.9%
- CU 1.4% → 2.1%
- PvdD 1.0% → 2.1%
- BBB 3.9% → 1.8%
- Volt 0.4% → 1.4%
- SGP 0.7% → 0.8%
- DENK 0.6% → 0.4%
- Others 1.0% → 0.6%
Pale bar: the general election of October 2025; solid: today's national polls carried down to Emmen (each party moves by its national change, half by the same number of points and half in proportion, scaled so that every gemeente adds up to the national average). Our national polls: Netherlands forecast →
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About Emmen
Emmen has 87,342 voters, the largest of 12 in Drenthe and 26th of 342 across the Netherlands.
At the general election of October 2025 it voted PVV 28.2%, VVD 12.7%, CDA 12.3%. PVV did 11 points better here than across the Netherlands.
The council election, March 2026: Wakker Emmen came first with 14 of 39 seats, ahead of CDA (4).
Moved to today's national polls, our projection here has PVV on 21.8% and PRO on 14.6%.
The council election, March 2026
39 seats on the council.
- Wakker Emmen 31.4% · 13,914 · 14 seats
- CDA 10.8% · 4,763 · 4 seats
- Partij van de Arbeid (PvdA) 9.9% · 4,390 · 4 seats
- Forum voor Democratie 9.6% · 4,258 · 4 seats
- VVD 6.4% · 2,818 · 2 seats
- PVV (Partij voor de Vrijheid) 5.3% · 2,340 · 2 seats
- D66 5.2% · 2,299 · 2 seats
- VEILIG EMMEN 4.6% · 2,034 · 2 seats
- 50PLUS 4.5% · 1,983 · 1 seat
- ChristenUnie 3.4% · 1,508 · 1 seat
- Hart voor Emmen 3.1% · 1,380 · 1 seat
- GROENLINKS 3.1% · 1,375 · 1 seat
- SP (Socialistische Partij) 2.8% · 1,228 · 1 seat
Gemeenten of a similar size in Drenthe
- Assen54,858 voters · PRO first
- Hoogeveen43,832 voters · PVV first
- Coevorden28,831 voters · PVV first
- Meppel28,227 voters · PRO first
- Midden-Drenthe27,815 voters · PRO first
- Tynaarlo27,337 voters · PRO first
- Noordenveld25,717 voters · PRO first
- Borger-Odoorn21,275 voters · PRO first
Every gemeente in Drenthe → · All of the Netherlands →
Kiesraad, via data.overheid.nl (CC0): Tweede Kamer election of 29 October 2025 and gemeenteraad elections of 18 March 2026, by gemeente.