The Independent Politics Netherlands (Dutch: Onafhankelijke Politiek Nederland, OPNL), formerly known as the Independent Senate Group (Onafhankelijke Senaatsfractie, OSF), is a political party in the Dutch Senate with one senator, representing several provincial parties. OPNL differs from other Dutch political parties in that it does not allow for individual membership, but only grants membership to provincial parties, or municipal local parties that are members of a provincial party.^[1] OPNL only contests the elections for the Senate and represents regionalist interests.

In 1995, several provincial parties and The Greens proposed their own independent list for the Senate elections, called the Platform of Independent Groups/The Greens (Platform van Onafhankelijke Groepen/De Groenen). Marten Bierman (a member of The Greens) was elected through preferential vote. In 1999 Bierman was reelected.

In 2003, Henk ten Hoeve became senator for the OSF. He was a member of the Friesland states-provincial representing the Frisian National Party. He remained senator until 2011. Ten Hoeve was succeeded by Kees de Lange. De Lange was elected on the OSF list, but was a member of the 50PLUS party, with which the OSF had a vote sharing agreement, as the OSF did not achieve enough votes to get a seat independently. In 2015 De Lange broke with the OSF due to a disagreement concerning the possible cooperation between the OSF and the People's Party of Limburg of Jos van Rey, a former VVD alderman and representative plagued by corruption scandals.^[2]

In 2015, Henk ten Hoeve became senator of the OSF for a second time. Between 2019 and 2021 Gerben Gerbrandy, former mayor of Achtkarspelen, has been the senator representing the OSF. Gerbrandy left the Senate in January 2021 and was replaced by Ton Raven, a former alderman from Sittard-Geleen.^[3]

In 2021, the party's name was changed to Independent Politics Netherlands.

OPNL consists of the following regional parties:^[4]

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Province	Party	2023 provincial election result
		Votes	%	Seats won
Drenthe	Sterk Lokaal Drenthe	7,485	2.84	1 / 43
Flevoland	Sterk Lokaal Flevoland	4,518	2.77	1 / 41
Friesland	Frisian National Party	27,298	8.05	4 / 43
	Provincial Interest Fryslân	6,891	2.03	1 / 43
Gelderland	Local Parties Gelderland	16,512	1.59	0 / 55
Groningen	Groninger Interest	17,385	6.04	3 / 43
Limburg	Lokaal Limburg	20,128	4.30	2 / 47
North Brabant	Lokaal Brabant	45,723	4.17	2 / 55
North Holland	Independent Politics North Holland	11,916	1.00	0 / 55
South Holland	Independent Politics South Holland	Did not participate
Utrecht	U26 Municipalities	7,646	1.17	0 / 49
Zeeland	Party for Zeeland	8,458	4.63	2 / 39

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