The official results of last week's election for Dutch parliament were released today and the report includes a breakdown of votes by Dutch citizens in the USA.

The official results show that about 7,700 votes were issued through Dutch embassies world-wide. The Embassy in Washington, DC saw the biggest turnout with 2,379 votes. That is 36% higher than two years ago in 2010, when 1,767 votes were cast.

A big part of the increase went to D66, most likely due to the campaign by D66 candidate Eelco Keij who traveled throughout the USA and the Netherlands to gain support for his expat-friendly platform.

In total, there were 2,379 votes (13 blank or invalid); here are the results:

• VVD: 757
• PvdA: 330
• PVV: 65
• CDA: 91
• SP: 105
• D66: 748
• GL: 163
• CU: 47
• SGP: 6
• PvD: 29
• Piraten: 9
• 50PLUS: 6

We left out parties that received less than 5 votes.