Wednesday, March 18, 2015

LIVE: Netherlands to the polls. Turnout so far: 31 percent – nrc.nl



No majority coalition

Based on this exit poll the coalition (VVD, PvdA) along with the “constructive opposition” (D66, Christian Union and SGP) no majority in the Senate, twitters our political editor Tom-Jan Meeus:

The five parties are Now at 34, while 38 seats needed for a majority.



First exit poll: VVD and CDA neck-and-neck

The ballot boxes are closed. The NOS has just released a first exit poll published based on the percentage of votes that the parties were at the Upper House elections in 2011 and 2015:

VVD 19.6 / 15.7
Labour 17.3 / 9.9
CDA 14.1 / 15.7
PVV 12.4 / 11
SP 10.5 / 12.4
D66 8.4 / 12
GL 6.3 / 6
CU SGP 6 / 7.1
50Plus 2.4 / 3.2
Party for the Animals 1.9 / 3.5
OSF 1.6 / 3.3

Converted to Senate Seats see the distribution of time being as follows:



CDA meeting in cafe in The Hague

Our political editor Emilie Outeren is at the CDA and let namely:

“First impression at the CDA is that the little room at the top cafe Pavlov is too small and that the average age of the members present & lt; 30′s. Few MPs and candidates from South Holland there are, but the leaders (yet) inside. Mona Keijzer will be the first that will respond after the second exit poll. “



Province Houses streams full

It is of course today primarily to the provinces NRC has reporters throughout the country, for example Wubby Luyendijk in Groningen.



‘Atmosphere at SP is already well

Our reporter Zoe Above the outcome evening of the SP and reports that the “nice atmosphere already been inserted”

“The hall is full and the first beers are already drawn open. To the exit poll a performance by the band ‘Be Groovy “that covert songs include Amy Winehouse. First Kamerfractie Voorziter Tiny Kox: ‘On election night politicians should be humble. Polls are fun, but you should always wait. You see that in Israel it. ” Former SP Member of Parliament Hans van Leeuwen kicked off the evening: “Are we going for a little profit? The room is silent. Or for a big win? The audience applauded.



You can have a fifteen votes

Another fifteen minutes and then the polling stations close. At 21.00 the first exit poll of the NIS

 Photos ANP / Martijn Beekman

Photo ANP / Martijn Beekman



What is at stake

provincial elections were held today, but they have the indirect election? the Senate also national implications. What is the major parties in The Hague on the game tonight? Read our overview per party.



Timetable for tonight

21.00 to close the ballot boxes. NOS, which is broadcasting live from 20.30 on NPO 1, bringing to nine hours straight the first exit poll by how many percent of the vote nationwide parties have been today. To 21.30 There is an update of that exit poll.

Later in the evening, as the first real results are in, the CSS displays based on the ANP forecast of the seats in the Senate.



For Labour threatens half

Our political editor Thijs Niemantsverdriet tonight at the outcome of the evening Labour Party in Amsterdam. For the Social Democrats expected to be a tough evening: because the party in 2011 did relatively well in the States Elections (14 seats in the Senate). The parliamentary elections went better, but reigns since the party’s electoral they landed in a free fall. For the Labour Party threatens half tonight in the Senate.



42 percent have cast vote

At 19.30 was 42 percent of the voters in the Netherlands or cast its vote for the provincial elections. Which is 6 percentage points less than in the elections four years ago, research firm Ipsos report and the NIS. In the last provincial elections, in 2011, the turnout was finally on 56. There can be tuned to 21.00.



The Belgians on the Dutch elections

Why the Dutch always go vote on Wednesday? The Belgian newspaper The Morning devotes an article to. The newspaper writes that every Dutch employee is entitled to two hours ‘voice free’ absence to cast his vote if that is not beyond his spell

De Morgen writes.



Today the Dutch can go into 393 municipalities, where polling stations are decorated in public places such as community centers and churches. However, most polling stations are located in schools.

And that is why elections in the Netherlands almost always take place on a Wednesday, according to the Electoral Council. On that day the schools are taxed the least.



Election of paradoxes

What the legacy of the Rutte II is also: the fact is that no postwar coalition the political significance of the Senate so has put firmly on the map, writes political editor Tom-Jan Meeus today in TVNZ . Rutte II wanted to limit the influence of the Senate, but the new Senate is more political than ever.

Read more in NRC.



Protest

The water authorities may then have to spend a total of over 2.6 billion. Not everyone sees the usefulness of the election of the general management.



Please vote after work ..

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NRC rash map

Tonight walk with us the results in electoral map below.

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Our webmaster will still go back in time:



31 percent

At 17.30, 31 percent of voters cast their vote in the elections to the Provincial Council, the NIS reported on the authority of the Ipsos. This is 4 percentage points less than in the elections four years ago.

At the last provincial elections, in 2011, the turnout was finally at 56 percent.



Reader Telegraph agrees PVV Volkskrant Labour

Readers of The Telegraph vote today especially for the PVV and VVD. People Volkskrant or Het Parool read, go during these elections for the Labour Party. Those are some results of the survey that Gallup yesterday and today carry out among 9,000 people who read newspapers at least twice a week (on paper or digital).

Telegraph Readers indicates 25 percent today to vote for the PVV and 24 percent on the VVD. The CDA follows with 16 percent in the third. The reader of the AD, the preference is for the CDA and VVD (both 19 percent), followed by the Freedom Party (17 percent).

The readers of Volkskrant PvdA protrudes above it. 23 percent of the people who read the newspaper, is planning to vote for that party. D66 is second with 16 percent, just before the SP (14 percent).

D66 scores best readers of nrc.next and TVNZ . A quarter of the people who nrc.next reads, agrees according Dog Wednesday at D66. NRC Handelsblad is that 23 percent. Most readers of True vote for the Christian Democrats (20 percent), followed by the PvdA and the SP (14 percent). (Reuters)



A prediction of the outcome

electoral geographer Josse de Voogd made the following map:

“These local elections for any party as exciting as for the Labour Party,” said researcher Josse de Voogd earlier in TVNZ . He has specialized in electoral geography: the link between where people live and what they vote. Not only the big cities are electoral battlegrounds, “also in the periphery there is much at stake.”



Yeah, here provide the water boards for

In the Netherlands, 23 water boards. A water board is an area where the water board makes for instance solid dikes, clean water and adequate water for a good harvest. They have no unkind budget for it. In 2015, expect to receive the water boards over 2.6 billion from taxes.

Each water board has an elected governing board and an executive board, both boards are chaired by a dike warden or watergraaf. We vote for the general management. Most board members are elected today. A few places are reserved on the board for representatives of farmers, businesses and conservationists.

Water Board elections


Voters wanted

Voters sought in Limmen, municipality Castricum:



Turnout so far: 24 percent

At 15.30 hours had 24 percent of the voters cast their vote in the Provincial States Elections. That is 4 percentage points less than in the elections four years ago, NOS reported on the authority of the Ipsos.

rise

Updates by Carlijn Fish



Three boys aged 14 to confess house demolitions PVV there

Three boys aged 14 from Etten-Leur yesterday when police announced that they have been involved in vandalism at the home of the Brabant PVV candidate Jake Owen Raats. That made the police just announced.

The house PVV’er Etten was the last time several times and was targeted include pelted with stones. The boys explained that a poster of Geert Wilders on the windows gave rise to the harassment.

The police came to the guys on the track after two tips. The boys were interrogated all day and then released. The Public Prosecutor they will offer a fine or community service.

Raats said Wednesday in a reaction that one of the boys sometimes has rung and he has insulted, including racist. It gives according to him a good feeling that the perpetrators are found. The poster of Geert Wilders, he pulls away after the election.



Voting Stations popular

In the mid afternoon more than 3,000 people have cast their vote on the four major central train stations in the Netherlands: Utrecht Centraal, Amsterdam Central Station, Central Station and The Hague Central Station. That says a spokesman of the NS.

The busiest it was in the morning, when about 750 people were already making use of the opportunity at one of the stations to cast their votes for the election.



Another action of election hooligans



What can and can not at the ballot box

 The rules in the voting booth, edict of the national government.

The rules in the voting booth, edict of the national government. Photo: Boaz Timmermans



All Holland Pastes

Some more pictures of the creative cutting and pasting in the Netherlands around the polling stations:

A polling station in Groningen

A polling station in Groningen. Photo: Kees van de Veen

A polling station in Groningen

A polling station in Groningen Photo: Kees van de Veen. Photo: Kees van de Veen

The signing of a Groningen polling

The signing of a Groningen polling station. Photo: Kees van de Veen

A polling station in the serviced Belmonte.

A polling station in the serviced Belmonte. Photo ANP / Martijn Beekman



Stemwijzer the voice pointers

You can vote for a few hours. Want to know which Tuning Guide you can use? We made a list, because there are now so many voice aids – Kieskompas, Stemwijzer, Cannabis Contour, Tunes Inder – that it might be difficult to choose from the range



Voices in the fire

Limmen can be voted at a firehouse:



Quarrel at polling station in Woerden

At a polling station in Woerden has been an incident. That RTV Utrecht.



What happened

A visually impaired man wanted with the help of a woman vote in zalencentrum Concordia, but that was not allowed?; together into the voting booth is prohibited. The man from Woerden became angry and tore up his ballot. There was an altercation and the man would have insulted a police officer.

The polling station has reported the incident, the riot is a process made verbally.



Turnout Hague lower than 2011

The Hague has one in seven voters hitherto his or her voice cast for the Provincial Council. At 14.00 pm the turnout was 14.8 percent. That has informed the Hague.

The turnout was lower than in the previous Parliamentary elections in 2011. Then had voted around the same time 19.2 percent of the residents of The Hague.

The water board elections was the rise in the Hague 12.00 to 12.5 percent. Of the previous water board elections are no intermediate turnout because when a letter was passed.



Most candidates come from Amsterdam

In North Holland, most of the candidates for the provincial elections in Amsterdam. According to figures from RTV Noord-Holland.

In total there are 126 Amsterdam on the list. Haarlem in second place with 19 candidates. Thirdly, Amstelveen, with 18 candidates.



Photo smallest polling station Netherlands

 In the living room of the Westhoff family decorated the smallest polling station in the Netherlands.

In the living room of the family Westhoff smallest polling station of the Netherlands is furnished. ANP Photo / Vincent Jannink



Together in a box

Together in a voting booth: it really should not. We found one photo:

 Together in a voting booth at a polling station in Overveen.

Together in a voting booth at a polling station in Overveen. Photo ANP / Koen van Weel



Adjusts the appearance of a politician in his / her party?

Are the politicians ‘looks’ of the party to which they belong? Not always, according to a study of Quest .

4500 people participated in the test. Purely on the basis of the appearance of politicians they estimate at any particular party MPs, who are less known to the general public to hear.



Spotted on Twitter #stemkus

Sparsely pass by on Twitter #stemkus:

Will the new #stemkus #stemfie?



18 percent voted

13.30 had 18 percent of voters cast their vote in the provincial elections. This is 0.2 percent less than in the elections four years ago, says research firm Ipsos.



Pechtold are presented with dilemmas in a rap

We reported earlier that Alexander Pechtold was a guest on the radio at the transmitter FunX. For those who missed it: the conversation is to listen back.

Youth Channel FunX took the original: in a special political rap was the D66 there answers to dilemmas ‘agree’ or ‘disagree’



Voice Secret

The voting booths depends explanation from the government on the ‘secret ballot’:



Video drive-in polling

A video of the drive-in polling station in the Zuidplas municipality. One thing is clear: you need from your car to cast your vote



Turnout Amsterdam to 13.00: 9.7 percent

The rise in Amsterdam is provisionally almost equal to the previous provincial elections in 2011. Until 13:00 had 9.7 percent of the voting people voted. Four years that was back at the same time 9.9 percent.



Graphics turnout since 1978

This chart shows the rise of the elections since 1978.

Turnout around

Turnout go. Graph: Reuters



What voters important?

Visitors Stemwijzer.nl indicate concern to find the main theme for this regional elections. Public transport is also an important issue, especially in the provinces of North Brabant, Overijssel and Drenthe. In Groningen gas production the main subject. In VoteMatch for the Senate give people to find the free choice of doctor the most important item.

Stemwijzer.nl has hitherto consulted by nearly 1.4 million visitors and more than one million people called in the help of Kieskompas.nl.



Mayor Aboutaleb voted

Mayor Ahmed Aboutaleb casts his vote for the provincial elections in retirement home Pniel to Oudedijk. Rotterdam

Mayor Ahmed Aboutaleb casts his vote for the provincial elections in the retirement home Pniel Oudedijk. in Rotterdam. Photo Reuters / Jerry Lights



Rise in Rozendaal already 31 percent

The rise in the Gelderland Rozendaal was at 12.00 already at 31 percent. That is well above the national average.
The water board elections was on the rise 29.8 percent.

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