The new look lower house of parliament will have more MPs from the regions and more manual workers but will be less culturally diverse than the current one which bows out later on Tuesday, according to research by Trouw.

New MPs include a supermarket manager, a poffertjes stand owner and a metal worker, and the number of MPs with trade school qualifications rather than a degree will almost double to 19, Trouw found. This is largely down to the surge in MPs from far right party PVV. 

There will be 89 men, 60 women and one non-binary person in the 150-seat parliament which is roughly in line with 2021.

In total, 65 MPs come from outside the central Randstad region, where the four big cities are based, which is also an improvement on 2021. However, only three each come from Zeeland, Drenthe, Flevoland and Friesland. 

The number of MPs who were either born abroad or whose parents were born abroad, has also gone down. 

In the current parliament, 28 MPs, or 19% of the total, have foreign roots of some sort, compared with 25% of the wider population. But in the new look lower house, just 24 are bicultural, and 10 of them come from the 27-strong GroenLinks/PvdA alliance. 

“Diversity is lower on the agendas of right wing parties and they have made big gains,” said Ian van der Kooye, director of Kleur de Kamer, an organisation that works to boost cultural diversity in government.