With three weeks left until the elections for a new House of Representatives, all parties have announced their candidate lists. Omroep Brabant and Localfocus examined the lists and looked for the people from Brabant. As it turns out, there are again relatively few.
This time there are a total of 109 people from Brabant on whom you can make your choice. This concerns candidates who currently live in Brabant. People who were born in Brabant, but have now left the province, are not counted.
Of the 1166 candidates, just over a hundred live in our province. That is only 9.4 percent, while approximately 15 percent of all voters come from our province. Converted, all those Brabant voters account for 22 to 23 seats.
Who are the candidates?
The three highest ranked Brabanders on the various lists are:
- Esmah Lahlah from Tilburg – GroenLinks-PvdA (2nd place)
- Ruben Brekelmans from Oisterwijk – VVD (place 3)
- Inge van Dijk from Gemert – CDA (4th place)
Most Brabanders
The party with the most Brabanders on the list is currently not in the House of Representatives (and can therefore not be found in the extensive overview below). It concerns 50PLUS, the party has no fewer than 13 Brabanders on the list, followed by the VVD (10). Parties without Brabanders on the list are: Vrede voor Dieren, BIJ1 and the Fryske National Party (FNP).
The party lists differ in terms of the number of candidates. If we look at the relatively most Brabanders per party that can be voted on, the overview looks like this:
The very marginal party ‘DE LINIE’ has a candidate list that almost half consists of candidates who live in Brabant. That sounds like a lot, but the party’s total list only has 15 candidates. To give as fair a picture as possible, the Brabant part of the candidate lists is shown below again with the numbers of candidates:
Localfocus mapped out which municipalities candidate MPs come from. The south of the province in particular appears to be underrepresented: almost all border municipalities will certainly not send anyone to parliament.
These are all Brabant candidates from the parties currently in the chamber:
PVV
23 – Maikel Boon, Bergen op Zoom
25 – Rachel van Meetelen, Bergen op Zoom
44 – Eric Esser, Den Bosch
74 – Nathalie Choenni, Kaatsheuvel
GroenLinks-PvdA
2 – Esmah Lahlah, Tilburg
21 – Jade van der Linden, Oss
43 – Naomi Woltring, Eindhoven
VVD
3 – Ruben Brekelmans, Oisterwijk
14 – Thierry Aartsen, Terheijden
20 – Daan de Kort, Eindhoven
34 – Martijn Buijsse, Boekel
42 – Thomas Melisse, Hoeven
61 – Joachim Jansen, Moerdijk
62 – Anne van Berlo., Gemert
65 – Rick Zagers, Breda
68 – Eddie Altenburg-Collin, Den Bosch
76 – Jorin Aardoom, Vlijmen
NSC
29 – Jos van Ginniken, Breda
32 – Colette Kersten, Etten-Leur
D66
10 – Mpanzu Bamenga, Eindhoven
24 – Ulas Köse, Dongen
BBB
25 – Dirk Buis, Uden
38 – Mark Ven, Oirschot
CDA
4 – Inge Dijk, Gemert
6 – Jeltje Straatman, Bladel
13 – Maes van Lanschot, Eindhoven
27 – Ankie de Hoon, Etten-Leur
32 – Caroline van Brakel, Veldhoven
47 – Stijn Sips, Dongen
SP
11 – Leroy Vossenberg, Oss
24 – Ruud MErks, Schijndel
26 – Inge Verdaasdonk, Breda
28 – Dani Smith, Vught
31 – Erik Schapendonk, Tilburg
41 – Jente van Eck, Den Bosch
THINK
14 – Ramazan Özcan, Tilburg
15 – Timotheus Tap, Tilburg
27 – Ranim Agha, Helmond
29 – Zainab Abubaker, Roosendaal
30 – Burhan Aydin, Eindhoven
36 – Omar Fkihi, Helmond
40 – Can Bayrakci, Tilburg
48 – Yusuf Dagdelen, Bergen op Zoom
Party for the Animals
20 – Cynthia Pallandt, Breda
29 – Anne-Miep Vlasveld, Tilburg
32 – Pam Wijnans, Tilburg
34 – Janneke Lierop, Breda
38 – Jasper Loo, Breda
40 – Judith Lammers, Eindhoven
44 – Virginia Jonkers, Eindhoven
Forum for Democracy
13 – Ramon van Asch, Den Bosch
14 – Nicolas Knoester, Eindhoven
23 – Marianne Akkermans-Linssen, Maashees
24 – Luca de Clippelaar, Eindhoven
32 – Patty Spoek-van Dinther, Helmond
34 – Yolande Boom-Bekkers, Boxtel
39 – Theo Heller, Helmond
50 – Joris van den Oetelaar, Schijndel
SGP
28 – Henk van Zelst, Sprang-Capelle
ChristianUnion
14 – Christian van der Krift, Eindhoven
16 – Hetty Egger-van Oppen, Vierlingsbeek
43 (Tilburg Constituency) – Jan Groos, Waalwijk
44 (Tilburg Constituency) – Nelleke Tolenaars- den Braber, Fijnaart
44 (Constituency ‘s-Hertogenbosch) – Wouter Bondt, Best
45 (Tilburg Constituency) – Anne Duizer, Giessen
45 (Constituency ‘s-Hertogenbosch) – Henk Jager, Eindhoven
Volt
5 – Bjorn Beijnon, Den Bosch
8 – Inge Vossen-van Beers, Rosmalen
22 – Jolijn van der Linden, Nuenen
JA21
19 – Kevin Nuijten, Oosterhout
25 – Roy de Bruin, Tilburg
32 – Maaike Manon Damen-Flobbe, Land van Cuijk
37 – Mees Uijens, Eindhoven
42 – Marnix van den Berk, Etten-Leur