PROVINCE OF UTRECHT – Local parties are the big winners of the municipal elections in our region and GroenLinks remains the largest in the city of Utrecht. In Amersfoort, D66 narrowly won. And then there are plenty of newcomers. Follow the aftermath of the elections in this live blog.
09.45 Lopik opted for independence. But will that really happen?
Reporter Robert Jan Booij also went to Lopik to gauge the mood the day after the election. Hart voor Lopik’s victory implies that voters there are not interested in a merger with another municipality.
But on the street people in Lopik are skeptical that the results translate into concrete results. “In the end they get their way. It has to.”
Robert Jan Booij gauges the mood about the future of Lopik as an independent municipality
09.28 am Round on the street in Nieuwegein: ‘What is the difference between the parties?’
Nieuwegein was the municipality with the lowest turnout in the province. A walk on the street doesn’t really make it clear why.
Nieuwegeiners, who spoke to reporter Robert Jan Booij for Utrecht is Wakker on Radio M, find the differences between the parties somewhat small: ”GroenLinks has won big here. But what does it actually say? It is very difficult to determine what one party wants and what the other wants.”
Reporter Robert Jan Booij speaks ‘the Nieuwegeiner on the street’, the morning after the elections
08:58 Party leaders on the ‘day after’: Lopik chooses for himself, VVD licks its wounds and Woerden has to polder
One after the other party leader from the province joined Utrecht Is Wakker on Radio M this morning. One had something to celebrate last night until the small hours, for the other the election night ended in disappointment.
08:14 Watched entire election night by nearly 1.2 million people
The two programs about the municipal elections were viewed by 1.18 million people on Wednesday evening, according to figures from the Stichting KijkOnderzoek (SKO). Naar Nederland Kiest: The Results on NPO 1 watched an average of 723,000 people throughout the evening. The program Jinek & RTL Nieuws: De Uitslagenavond on RTL4 was watched by 457,000 people.
A total of 4.2 million people received a piece of broadcast from the election evening on NPO 1, the SKO reports. A total of 1.8 million people watched a part of the RTL4 broadcast about the elections.
07.45 am The newspapers are of course also unpacking with the elections
06.14 am Residents’ party Future of Houten the largest
Houten was one of the last municipalities in the province to announce the result. ITH gets 8 seats on the new council, making it by far the largest party. Four years ago, the CDA in Houten was the largest.
06.13 am Local parties are winning everywhere, including in Utrecht
After counting 98.5 percent of the votes, all local parties in the Netherlands together reach 36.4 percent of the votes, according to preliminary results from the ANP Election Service.
05.30 am GroenLinks remains largest party in Utrecht, Volt with three seats in city council
05.30 am Amersfoort council further fragmented, D66 and GroenLinks again the largest
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