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According to the exit polls of the public TV Nos, the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy, Vvd, of outgoing premier Mark Rutte, wins 2 seats compared to the previous elections of 2017 and gets 35 deputies out of 150 in the lower house of Parliament.
In second place the socioliberals of D66, who advance to 27 seats (+8), in third place the far-right and Islamophobic party Pvv of Gert Wilders, which stops at 17 seats, down by three.
The greens also dropped with 8 seats compared to 14 in 2017.
According to the exit polls, therefore, Rutte, 54, is preparing to obtain his fourth term of government, which should return to form with the centrist liberals of the D66, which became the second Dutch party, reporting the best electoral result ever: the maximum it dates back to 1994 when they obtained 24 seats in Parliament.
In fourth place, after Wilders' Freedom Party, the Christian Democrats of the Board of Directors, who lose five seats, stopping at 14, down like the allies of the CDU, who drop from 5 to 4 deputies.
The Pvda Labor Party remained stable with nine seats.
For the downward PVV, the Forum for Democracy, the far-right party of Thierry Baudet, rises, passing from two to seven deputies.
Public TV has made it known how the uncertainty caused by the vote in the Covid-19 pandemic makes the margins for error wider than in other elections.
"A difference of two seats per party can occur more often. A difference of more than two seats cannot be completely ruled out," he said in a statement.
Counting the votes should last all night.