European elections, new and improved exit poll

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Tonight, at 9pm local time, Dutch NOS TV brought the first results of the 2014 European Parliament elections … er, it was an exit poll.

Half an hour later, the second version of the exit poll.

Less than 40% of the electorate went to the polling stations: 37%.

The results were:

PVV (xenophobic party of Geert Wilders): 12,2%. Last time, in 2009, they had 17,0. This would mean from 5 MEPs to 3 MEPs.

Here are the comparisons for other parties with the 2009 European Parliament elections. Being just an exit poll, a bit tricky and provisional.

D66 (“liberal”, pro-European Union): 15,6%

VVD (pro-big business party of Prime Minister Rutte, biggest party in two-party governing coalition): 12,3%

CDA (Christian Democrats, sister party of Merkel in Germany): 15,2%

Socialist Party: 10,0%

PvdA (social democrats, junior partners in coalition government with the VVD): 9,4%

IQ-partij (one-man party, just one candidate): 0,%

GroenLinks: 7,3%

Christian Union-SGP (coalition of two Calvinist Protestant parties): 7,8%

50+ (pensioners’ party): 4,2%

Party for the Animals: 4,2%.

Four percent is enough for one seat.

Artikel 50 (its MEP founder Daniël van der Stoep split from Wilders’ PVV party after police caught Van der Stoep driving while drunk): ,%

Pirate party (‘one issue’ party about the Internet): 0,7%

All other parties had together 1.1% in the second exit poll.

Greens: ,%

Anti-EU(ro) party: ,%

Liberal Democrat party (split from the VVD which they thought was becoming too conservative): 0,%

Jesus Lives (Christian fundamentalists): ,%

Ikkiesvooreerlijk.eu (for more European Union influence): ,%

Aandacht en Eenvoud: 0,%

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