1. The Netherlands Parliamentary Elections 2017
Irene Arnold, 24th May 2017
Research Seminar: Reporting Europe

2. Parliamentary Election Results March 15, 2017
Distribution: 13 parties and 150 Parliamentary seats
: percentages of votes per party
VVD Largest party 21.1%, nationwide patterns
Turnout 2017: 81.9%

3. Participants (28) and final Parttakers (13)

4. The Key Actors

5. Exit polls: Green runs the Dutch vote. 2012 vs
Exit polls: Green runs the Dutch vote vs. 2017: VVD -10; PVV +4; CDA +6; D66 +7; Groen Links +12; SP -1; PvdA -29; CU +1; PVdD +3; etc
Source: IPSOS

6. Coalition forming in a scattered landscape: four potential scenario’s

7. Electoral game changers: Pim Fortuyn (1948-2002) and Theo van Gogh (1957-2004)

8. Campaigning: battle for the ‘indecisive voter’ and scattered representatives

9. Campaigning: the national prism

10. Campaigning: nostalgia as offensive strategy

11. Alternative campaigning and scapegoating: immigration, discrimination, multiculturalism

12. Campaigning: the ‘new normality’

14. The political geography of the Netherlands
Age-old dividing lines and paradigmatic electoral patterns

15. A divided country

16. Right wins the vote everywhere … Except for Amsterdam, Utrecht, Leudal

17. Populist blocks biggest in the south and northeast of the NLs
Source: De Correspondent, Josse de Voogd, ..

18. Left voter lives more often in the city

19. Political patterns reveal segregation and gentrification in the larger cities

20. The Netherlands Second
Denmark second:
Germany second:
Russia second:
Japan second:
And so forth …