Your STV vote: Netherlands 2017

[H. Ross Peron]

[6] 50Plus
[8] CDA
[2] ChristenUnie
[9] D66
[15] DENK
[11] Forum for Democracy
[3] GroenLinks
[5] Pirate Party
[7] PvdA
[4] PvdD
[13] PVV
[14] SGP
[1] SP
[12] VoorNederland
[10] VVD
     

[H. Ross Peron]

Probably the wrong place to ask this, but who is the SP's base any way? Are thez *shudder* actually working class?

My impression of Europe's hard left parties is that they tend to be mostly supported by middle class lefties, but GL seem to have that demographic in the Netherlands.

Yeah, SP voters are often working class, and many live outside the urban West (though they also do decently in many industrial or post-industrial areas in the urban West). They especially do well in the poor northeast and in the southeast, where voters are dealigned and the populist, activist SP has much more appeal than the middle-class, socially progressive, "Amsterdam" PvdA, whose base is much more middle-class than, say, that of the German SPD.

I do think the European hard left is relatively often supported by "real" working-class people.

Curious what you think of my choices.