Farmers' protest party win shock Dutch vote victory

Re:Farmers' protest party win shock Dutch vote victory by ZeroGravitas on Thursday March 16, 2023 @10:59AM (#35182812)

They seem to have mostly stolen votes from another far right party without the convenient cover of being farmers.

It's not clear how much (if at all) the balance has shifted towards or away from their signature policy.

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Re:Farmers' protest party win shock Dutch vote victory by tijl on Thursday March 16, 2023 @12:21PM (#35184122)

That's not really what voter research shows. Yes, 18% of BBB voters come from the PVV, but also 17% come from the Prime minister's party (VVD), 14% comes from his Christian-democratic coalition partner (CDA). 9% Comes from the left-wing SP, 7% from D66. The amounts coming from other parties are even smaller https://app.nos.nl/nieuws/ps2023/

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Re:Farmers' protest party win shock Dutch vote victory by ZeroGravitas on Thursday March 16, 2023 @04:35PM (#35188129)

The seats lost/gained are:

BBB +139

FvD -71

VVD -16

CDA -30

So, the voting system has lots of parties and ranked voting but it seems clear that the main story is FvD lost out to BBB.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Dutch_provincial_election...

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Re:Farmers' protest party win shock Dutch vote victory by t0mas88 on Friday March 17, 2023 @09:34AM (#35196864)

You forgot FvD which was the big winner 4 years ago, now loosing their seats to BBB.

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