Leader of the Party for Freedom (PVV) Geert Wilders, next to PVV member and Dutch MP Fleur Agema (left), celebrates at a post-election meeting at the Nieuwspoort conference center in The Hague on Nov 23, 2023. (PHOTO / AFP)

THE HAGUE — The Netherlands' far-right populist Party for Freedom (PVV) won the parliamentary elections by a landslide, the Dutch Electoral Council announced at a press conference here Friday.

The PVV got 37 of the 150 seats in the House of Representatives, or the lower house of parliament, becoming the biggest party in the country for the first time in history.

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The elections were held on Nov 22 with a 77.7-percent turnout, down from 78.7 percent in 2021 and 81.9 percent in 2017.

The GreenLeft-Labor alliance, GroenLinks-PvdA, ranked second for 25 seats, while the rightist People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD) took the third place with 24 seats and the new centrist party New Social Contract (NSC) fourth with 20 seats.