Dutch Election Results from 1848 to Present, by Municipality

Historical election results for all representative bodies in the Netherlands from 1848 to the present day. The data is provided by the Dutch Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations and is displayed at the municipality level. The database is updated after each recent election.

Use Cases

• Analyze long-term voting trends and party performance based on the historical time range.
• Study geographical voting patterns and regional political shifts based on municipality-level results.
• Model electoral outcomes or voter behavior using historical data spanning over 170 years.

Strengths

• Covers a long historical period from 1848 to the present day.
• Provides granular, municipality-level results for detailed geographical analysis.
• Is maintained and updated by a national government ministry (Ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken en Koninkrijksrelaties).

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for large-scale ML tasks.
• Data is provided in HTML format, which may require significant preprocessing for analysis.

Provenance

Source

Ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken en Koninkrijksrelaties (Dutch Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations)

Collection Method

Likely compiled from official electoral records.

Time Range

1848 to present

Freshness

Updated after each recent election, but the specific last update date is unknown.

Geography

Netherlands, by municipality