Netherlands General election15 May 2030in 1,290 days PRO largest party 88% D66 + VVD + CDA reach 76 0% Calendar Track record Research

Lochem: PRO would now come first, ahead of D66

Lochem (Gelderland) has 27,973 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.

Today's polls here, against the general election of October 2025

  1. PRO 14.2% → 21.0%
  2. D66 19.4% → 11.7%
  3. VVD 16.5% → 11.2%
  4. JA21 5.2% → 11.0%
  5. CDA 14.3% → 10.5%
  6. FvD 4.3% → 7.8%
  7. PVV 9.5% → 7.1%
  8. BBB 7.7% → 4.3%
  9. 50PLUS 1.3% → 3.3%
  10. PvdD 1.8% → 3.2%
  11. Volt 1.3% → 2.9%
  12. SP 1.5% → 2.8%
  13. CU 0.8% → 1.5%
  14. DENK 0.8% → 0.5%
  15. Others 1.2% → 0.7%

Pale bar: the general election of October 2025; solid: today's national polls carried down to Lochem (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 Lochem

Lochem has 27,973 voters, the 23rd largest of 51 in Gelderland and 157th of 342 across the Netherlands.

At the general election of October 2025 it voted D66 19.4%, VVD 16.5%, CDA 14.3%. PVV did 7 points worse here than across the Netherlands.

The council election, March 2026: Gemeentebelangen came first with 8 of 23 seats, ahead of GROENLINKS / Partij van de Arbeid (PvdA) (4).

Moved to today's national polls, our projection here has PRO on 21% and D66 on 11.7%.

The council election, March 2026

23 seats on the council.

  1. Gemeentebelangen 30.6% · 5,763 · 8 seats
  2. GROENLINKS / Partij van de Arbeid (PvdA) 16.4% · 3,080 · 4 seats
  3. VVD 12.3% · 2,307 · 3 seats
  4. LochemGroen! 11.4% · 2,142 · 3 seats
  5. CDA 10.0% · 1,885 · 2 seats
  6. D66 9.6% · 1,811 · 2 seats
  7. Meedenken met Lochem (MmL) 7.2% · 1,363 · 1 seat
  8. Democratische Partij Lochem (DPL) 2.4% · 458

Gemeenten of a similar size in Gelderland

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Kiesraad, via data.overheid.nl (CC0): Tweede Kamer election of 29 October 2025 and gemeenteraad elections of 18 March 2026, by gemeente.