For the 2019 Dutch Senate election, 15 electoral lists were successfully submitted, totalling 259 candidates.
The 75 seats were awarded to party lists, with candidates over the preference threshold awarded a seat first if available and the other seats awarded based on position on the list. The preference threshold for this election was 2,309 weighted votes (same as the electoral threshold). Four candidate would have not been elected based on position on the list, but received enough preference votes: Ilse Bezaan (Party for Freedom), Hugo Berkhout, Otto Hermans and Theo Hiddema (all three Forum for Democracy). Replacements are also asked based on position on the list.