[2] In the previous municipal elections, local political parties won by far most votes and seats.

Nationally, all local political parties won 28% of the votes and a third of municipal council seats.

The Party for Freedom (PVV), which had previously only participated in The Hague and Almere, initially planned to expand to a total of sixty municipalities, but has only been able to find suitable candidates in thirty, including Rotterdam.

50PLUS will expand to twenty municipalities, while the Party for the Animals (PvdD) will contest fifteen elections.

[12] The new city council elected Femke Halsema, a member of the GroenLinks, to be the mayor of Amsterdam.