Dutch Heading to the Polls: Right-wing Wilders Win Predicted

The main campaign issues have been immigration and the housing crisis in the Netherlands.

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Dutch snap election campaign posters seen in October 2025

By Pieter Deurne – Own work, CC0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=177489177

The main campaign issues have been immigration and the housing crisis in the Netherlands.

Dutch voters head to the polls on Wednesday, October 29th for a snap election.

Polls suggest anti-immigration and anti-Islam leader Geert Wilders is narrowly on course to repeat his stunning election success from two years ago with his right-wing Freedom Party (PVV).

But with half the electorate still undecided, the result is too close to call, and a pack of three other parties has been closing the gap in recent days.

Wilders sparked the election by collapsing the previous government in a row over immigration, pulling the PVV out of a fractious four-way coalition.

All mainstream parties have ruled out a partnership with him again, declaring him unreliable or his views too unpalatable.

The main campaign issues have been immigration and a housing crisis that especially affects young people in the densely populated country.

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