The centrist D66 party was on course to win most votes in the Dutch national election and defeat the far right, an exit poll showed on Wednesday, opening a path for the energetic leader Rob Jetten to become the Netherlands' youngest and first openly gay prime minister. The exit poll projected D66 to win 27 seats in…

Centrist party D66 appeared to win the 2025 Dutch General Election, tripling their current total of representatives in Parliament, according to the first exit poll of the night from research firm Ipsos I&O. While the party may have knocked the far-right PVV down to the second-largest in the Tweede Kamer, the lower house of Parliament, the initial data suggested that the PVV's losses were to the benefit of other far-right nationalist factions.

A center-left party was poised to become the country’s largest political party, according to exit polls. The anti-immigrant Party for Freedom, led by Mr. Wilders, was expected to lose 12 seats.

Rob Jetten's D66 party celebrates but with 90% of votes counted the result is too close to call.

Centrist party D66 and the far-right Freedom Party (PVV) are neck-to-neck with 90% of votes counted, projection showed. The vote would signal a weakening of the PVV, which had come in first in the last election.

Wilders was the clear winner last time Dutch voters went to the polls in November 2023, but this time the race is far tighter.

Exit poll indicates a tight Dutch election, with D66 slightly leading over Wilders' party, signaling possible coalition challenges ahead.