🇳🇱 Politics and Elections in the Netherlands: General Election (Nov 22)

[Intell]

Basically am where christian union is but would be a critical NSC/PVDA-GL/D66 swing voter

[Intell]

I find it fascinating how the presence of such a low threshold to win any seats in the Netherlands keeps leading to the proliferation of these teeny-weeny parties that have only the most microscopic differences from other parties. I mean seriously - why do you need a Party for the Animals AND a Green party? Why have D66 and Volt and PvdA etc... in any other country these parties would be factions within larger parties.

Not saying its necessarily good or bad - it just "is"

Forgive me if I'm wrong, but my understanding was the Party for Animals and the Greens have different bases of support?

[Intell]

GL/PVdA taking a back turn in working class areas is laughably sad

[Intell]

According to that demographic analysis it looks like the Netherlands is one of the very few countries in the industrialized world where women voted more for the right than did men. Any explanation for that?

Gender gaps tend to be small in Europe even though men usually a bit more right wing but usually within Margin of error.  US & Canada are outliers with how big gender gap is just as UK & Ireland are outliers on age gap (young very left, old quite conservative).  I've generally found non-Anglosphere countries don't show age and gender gaps to same degree and instead social class, job, even religion play bigger role.

Sweedn has a large gender gap amongst the youth.