2007 Dutch Senate election

Prominent PvdA member and former MP Klaas de Vries was put on a very low place on the PvdA list of candidates by the advisory committee, he was unlikely to be elected.

He was indeed elected Another prominent candidate was human-rights lawyer Britta Böhler, who stood successfully for GroenLinks.

[1][failed verification] Three combined lists entered the election, the CDA together with the ChristianUnion and the SGP, the VVD together with D66 and the OSF and the GreenLeft together with the PvdD.

The plans for a combined list of PvdA/SP/GreenLeft/PvdD failed because of the rising tensions between SP and PvdA.

Two parties profited from the remainder seat allocation, using D'Hondt method, the SP and the CDA.