Netherlands: Municipal elections - Government coalition parties get thrashed - Wilders PVV also among losers

The Dutch government coalition parties all suffered major losses in Wednesdays municipal elections.

With 77% of the votes counted the biggest loser was the government coalition party PVDA ( Labour party) which lost more than 243 council seats around the country ( from 863 to 620 seats) . The other government coalition party VVD (Conservative Party) lost 104 council seats country-wide dropping from 1002 to 898 seats

Biggest winners were the Socialist party  (SP) who gained 159 seats, going from 186 to 345 seats and the D66 ( Democratic party) which gained more than 200 seats - going from  414 to 614 seats.

Wilders right-wing Eurosceptic anti-Muslim party dropped  from a total of 17 to 16 seats. 

EU-Digest