Municipal Election Results for Groningen, 2018, by Party and Polling District

Election results from the municipal council elections held on 21 November 2018 in the municipality of Groningen, Netherlands. The data includes results per political party and per polling district, covering a reclassified election following the merger of Groningen, Haren, and Ten Boer. The dataset is provided by the Municipality of Groningen and sourced via the Dutch Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations.

Use Cases

• Analyze party vote share distribution based on results per party mentioned in the description.
• Compare electoral outcomes across different polling districts based on the granular geographic breakdown.
• Study the impact of municipal mergers on voting behavior using the context of the 2018 reclassified election.

Strengths

• Data is structured by party and polling district, enabling granular spatial analysis.
• Covers a specific, significant political event—the 2018 reclassified election after a municipal merger.
• Available in multiple accessible file formats including CSV and Excel.

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 modeling.
• The dataset appears to be a one-time snapshot; temporal coverage is limited to the 2018 election.

Provenance

Source

Municipality of Groningen, via Ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken en Koninkrijksrelaties

Collection Method

Official election results compilation.

Time Range

21 November 2018

Freshness

One time per election; last update date is unknown.

Geography

Municipality of Groningen, Netherlands