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Post by Pete Whitehead on Sept 12, 2012 19:58:23 GMT
I hadn't realised that South East Amsterdam formed a detached part of Amsterdam. Is that a recent development? I think it's always been separate. Its a shame it isn't a separate municipality I'd love to see how it votes |
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Post by iainbhx on Sept 12, 2012 20:03:26 GMT
I think it's always been separate. Its a shame it isn't a separate municipality I'd love to see how it votes For whoever hands out the most benefits... |
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Post by BossMan on Sept 12, 2012 20:04:31 GMT
First constituency to "change hands", as it were.
Vlieland goes from a 6.6% VVD lead over PvdA in 2010 to a 0.9% PvdA lead over VVD.
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Post by iainbhx on Sept 12, 2012 20:04:53 GMT
Its a shame it isn't a separate municipality I'd love to see how it votes For whoever hands out the most benefits... Seriously, last borough election was Deelraadszetels Partij 2010 PvdA 12 D66-OZO 5 VVD 4 GL 4 SP 2 CDA 1 ChristenUnie 1 Totaal 29 |
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Post by erlend on Sept 12, 2012 20:07:20 GMT
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Post by BossMan on Sept 12, 2012 20:11:05 GMT
They're just using the Google map, but without the English language option.
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Post by erlend on Sept 12, 2012 20:16:27 GMT
And have polls closed in the colonies. There are 3 island in the Caribbean marked. I am not sure I would be right to refer to the Netherlands Antilles, I think that may have disintegrated?
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Post by Khunanup on Sept 12, 2012 20:18:53 GMT
And have polls closed in the colonies. There are 3 island in the Caribbean marked. I am not sure I would be right to refer to the Netherlands Antilles, I think that may have disintegrated? They are the parts of the former Netherlands Antillies that didn't become 'countries' of the Kingdom, but are instead 'Special Municipalities' and therefore part of metropolitan Netherlands (thus they can vote in this election). No idea if their polls have closed. |
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Post by Khunanup on Sept 12, 2012 20:52:35 GMT
SGP on 10.8% so far!  The bible belt is reporting in... |
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Post by Pete Whitehead on Sept 12, 2012 20:55:26 GMT
Renswoude a VVD 'gain - up 15% from 22% to 37%
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Post by iainbhx on Sept 12, 2012 20:55:34 GMT
SGP on 10.8% so far! The bible belt is reporting in... 12.6% now, Zeeland is declaring.. |
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Post by iainbhx on Sept 12, 2012 21:07:50 GMT
PVV losing areas it won last time down in Limburg.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 12, 2012 21:11:23 GMT
so any ideas why they have fallen so far behind ?
it would seem ripe for them an anti EU stance as well
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Post by tomo on Sept 12, 2012 21:14:25 GMT
The PVV were seen as cowards for making the last Govt fall and got a lot of bad press from the incident. They will probably benefit from being in opposition for a few years and build on the Anti-EU/Euro sentiment, which may continue if the Southern European nations keep receiving bailouts at the Dutch Taxpayers expense.
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Post by johnloony on Sept 12, 2012 21:15:06 GMT
It's interesting to see from the map that there is considerable geographical variation in different areas - with some bits having concentrated levels of support for the SGP (for example). Under FPTP there are reasons for concentrated support for the Lib Dems or Respect or whatever, but I would have expected it to be more evenly spread in a PR system.
P.S. So far, 8 out of the 17 "constituencies" declared have been gained* by the top two parties and lost* by the non-top-two. Perhaps there is a distortion in that because they are obviously the low-electorate areas being declared first.
* ("Gained" and ""lost" in the FPTP sense)
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Post by BossMan on Sept 12, 2012 21:22:09 GMT
It's interesting to see from the map that there is considerable geographical variation in different areas - with some bits having concentrated levels of support for the SGP (for example). Under FPTP there are reasons for concentrated support for the Lib Dems or Respect or whatever, but I would have expected it to be more evenly spread in a PR system. The SGP draw their support from very concentrated pockets of strong traditionalist Christian support. The bits lighting up orange are the Dutch equivalent of the US Bible Belt, or of our Na h-Eileanan an Iar... |
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Post by erlend on Sept 12, 2012 21:26:23 GMT
The SGP did top the poll in 1 of the first municipalities to report Hardinxfeld-Giessingen with 21.0 with the CU on 17.1%. Out of about 10K votes.
5% of the results in.
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Post by iainbhx on Sept 12, 2012 21:26:44 GMT
The CDA have just won somewhere by 47, they won by nearly 4000 in 2010.
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Post by johnloony on Sept 12, 2012 21:31:07 GMT
The SGP draw their support from very concentrated pockets of strong traditionalist Christian support. The bits lighting up orange are the Dutch equivalent of the US Bible Belt, or of our Na h-Eileanan an Iar... Oh I see! I read the name "Reformed" and I thought it meant "reformed" rather than "reformed"  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reformed_Political_Party |
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Post by Pete Whitehead on Sept 12, 2012 21:31:33 GMT
Why is Boxmeer such a stronghold for the Socialist Party?
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