What the official source says
Silvio Erkens is named elected in the final 2025 result.
The EML associates this result with VVD and publishes 5,446 candidate votes.
Official 2025 elected-result record · not a live tenure claim
Silvio Erkens.
Silvio Erkens is named elected under VVD in the official 2025 Netherlands House result EML, with 5,446 candidate votes. This is a historical result, not a current-tenure claim.
Published EML fields
Historical elected-result record.
- Name
- Silvio Erkens
- Initials
- S.P.A.
- Party
- VVD
- Candidate votes
- 5,446
- Source candidate ID
- 8
- Source short code
- ErkensSPA
- Declared locality
- Kerkrade
- Election date
- October 29, 2025
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Silvio Erkens — Netherlands 2025 House Elected Result Record
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