8.33 pm ‘GroenLinks in Amersfoort will hand in’
8.18 pm Utrechtse Heuvelrug counts votes from Monday and Tuesday
19.49 pm Tandem tour mayor Amersfoort is almost over
Mayor Lucas Bolsius has a strenuous day in Amersfoort. He rides a tandem along all polling stations in his municipality. That means a journey of 65 kilometers past 100 polling stations. The job is almost done.
19.45 Woerden
19.39 Drive-through in Veenendaal
19.37 Turnout in Utrecht at 50 percent
19.32 frantic battle for the voter in Utrecht city hall
A frantic battle has broken out at the city hall in Utrecht between two polling stations. “Whoever receives the most votes will receive bitterballen tonight”, one of the chairmen laughs. Normally the town hall is a place where residents of Utrecht get married and where council meetings take place, says reporter Marc van Rossum du Chattel. Now the place is the setting for the municipal elections.
In the elections to the House of Representatives two years ago, the elections were completely dominated by the corona measures. These are now largely no longer visible, except for a few sanitizers and mouth caps for people who want to use them.
7.30 pm Amersfoort
6.51 pm Utrecht has highest turnout of major cities
Utrecht still has the highest turnout percentage of the four largest cities. At the start of the evening, 44.9 percent had voted. In Amsterdam, The Hague and Rotterdam the percentages were between 30 and 35 percent.
6.45 pm A tour of the fields…
This afternoon we were at various places in the region. Watch contributions from our reporters below or read our live blog that we kept up during the day.
Municipal elections: a tour along fields.
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