The results of the provincial council in six graphs – NU.nl

D66 is the big winner, PvdA and VVD lose

With a gain of less than five seats in the Senate, D66 is the big winner of the provincial elections. The party won 12.3 percent of the vote, and has become the third party.

VVD remains the largest party at the provincial level, but loses compared to 2011 no less than three seats in the Senate. The Labour Party is especially hard hits in Amsterdam, Rotterdam and Utrecht, and lose six seats

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Labour loses most municipalities, grows CDA

Four years ago the Labour Party was the largest party in 73 municipalities. After 99.2 percent of the votes have been counted by the provincial elections, the party lost status in less than 65 municipalities. The northern provinces caused a major change.

The VVD lost sharply, but remains the largest party in most municipalities. The CDA is growing briskly in 132 municipalities to become the largest party. That’s 36 municipalities more than in 2011. D66 rises significantly in the percentage of votes, but only thirteen municipalities the largest party

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Third worst turnout …

With 47.5 percent turnout fewer voters went to the polls last year. This 8.5-percentage points fewer votes were cast. Only in 2007 and 1999 were less people for the provincial elections vote.

The trend is that the turnout has been declining for years. In 1978 was a whopping 79.1 percent of votes

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… and each municipality was the emergence lower

Nationally, the rise in 2011, much higher than this year, but also at the municipal level, the decrease is visible. In all municipalities the turnout was lower than four years ago. Zeeland Reimerswaal keeps the decline limited to 1.5 percentage point less, from 66.1 percent in 2011 to 64.6 this year.

In Waddinxveen the difference was greatest, with 70.4 percent in 2011 and 51.9 in 2015. The relatively low turnout on the islands and in Amsterdam (13.1 percentage points less) fall

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Rich municipalities vote for the VVD, SP poor …

Voting behavior is often related to the social conditions within a municipality. As voted almost a quarter of the richest Dutch municipalities to VDD, while voting only 9.4 percent of the poorest in the same party

The reverse is true for the SP:. 16.7 percent of the municipalities with the lowest average income tunes in to the party, while in rich communities agrees only 7.5 percent on the SP

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… towns choose D66, rural CDA

In addition, 17.7 percent voted in the most urbanized areas in D66, while 7.1 percent of the rural areas same party voted.

The CDA is just popular in the least urbanized areas. The same patterns are visible when looking at crime and the population of non-western immigrants, because both statistics are higher in urban areas than outside

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By: NU.nl/Jerry Warn