Local parties obtain 37 percent of the vote, VVD and CDA are the largest national parties

No final result in Amsterdam and The Hague

The final results of some major cities have not yet been received. Not all votes have been counted yet in Amsterdam, The Hague and Eindhoven, among others. Nevertheless, a good indication can already be given in these cities of what the city council will look like over the next four years.

According to the latest standings, based on 83 percent of the votes counted, the Labor Party has become the largest party in Amsterdam. The party wins four seats and comes out at nine, one seat more than GroenLinks, which lost two seats with eight seats compared to 2018. For the time being, D66 is the third party with seven seats.

Also read: PvdA the big winner in Amsterdam, which has become even more left

The last votes are also still being counted in Eindhoven and The Hague. GroenLinks seems to have become the largest party in Eindhoven, with nine seats based on 95 percent of the vote. In The Hague, according to the latest standings, based on 93 percent of the votes, Hart voor Den Haag is currently the largest party. Richard De Mos’s party rises by two seats to nine seats. D66 also wins two seats and ends up at eight seats.

Also read: Controversial De Mos remains the largest – college formation is becoming difficult in The Hague

50 percent of eligible voters cast their vote

Just over half of Dutch voters voted in the municipal elections. This is reported by the ANP news agency. Four years ago, more than 54 percent of eligible voters cast their vote.

At 80 percent turnout was highest at Schiermonnikoog and Rozendaal. In Rotterdam, less than 39 percent of voters went to the polls, and turnout in Almere and Tilburg also remained below 40 percent. Compared to 2018, voter turnout fell in 294 of the 327 municipalities in the Netherlands, and more people cast their votes in only 28 municipalities.

Local parties have emerged as the winners in this year’s municipal elections, taking together nearly 37 percent of the vote. The VVD is also the largest party in the Netherlands in these elections, followed by the CDA and D66.

City party big surprise in Nijmegen, GroenLinks again the biggest

The City Party in Nijmegen has become the biggest surprise at the
municipal elections. The local party managed to more than double the number of seats in the council by going from three to seven seats.

Despite the fact that the party lost two seats, GroenLinks is still the largest party in the city with nine of the 39 seats in total. D66 again received six seats, and is now the third party due to the rise of Stadspartij. In recent years, GroenLinks and D66 formed a majority coalition with the SP. However, the SP lost two of the five seats.

In Apeldoorn, VVD and Lokaal Apeldoorn have remained the largest parties. Both came out on six seats. The CDA lost no fewer than three seats, GroenLinks is now the third party with four seats.

GroenLinks in Groningen again the largest, but coalition loses majority

GroenLinks has once again become by far the largest party in Groningen. With 17.8 percent of the vote (-3.2), it comes to 9 of the 45 seats, 2 less than four years ago. Numbers two and three PvdA and D66 end in the provisional results on 6 and 5 seats.

Big winners are the Party for the Animals (4, +1 seat) and Student en Stad (3, +2 seats). The Party for the North is new on the council with two seats.

The current coalition parties in Groningen (GroenLinks, PvdA, D66 and ChristenUnie) do not win enough seats together to form a majority coalition again. The parties now have 20 seats together, three less than before.

Local parties obtain 37 percent of the vote, VVD and CDA are the largest national parties

After counting more than 94 percent of all votes in the Netherlands, it appears that local parties have grown considerably. Collectively, they won nearly 37 percent of all votes, up from nearly 29 percent four years ago.

The VVD will probably be the largest of the national parties. Prime Minister Mark Rutte’s party has managed to get 11.5 percent of the voters behind it, against 11.3 percent for the CDA. Both government parties lost compared to four years ago.

D66 is the third national party with 8.6 percent of the vote, just ahead of GroenLinks with 8.2 percent of the vote. PvdA and ChristenUnie remain virtually the same and the SP loses sharply.

Although the trend is clear, no direct translation to national politics can be made. This is mainly because the national parties do not participate everywhere and there are also significant changes compared to the municipal elections in 2018. The large presence of local parties also distorts the picture.

Welcome to this blog

On Wednesday, residents of most Dutch municipalities were allowed to go to the polls for the municipal elections. In this blog beats NRC the most important election news.