Municipal Reclassification Election Results from 2013 in the Netherlands

2013 results for municipal reclassification elections in the Netherlands, covering municipalities including Alphen aan den Rijn, The Frisian Lakes, Heerenveen, and Leeuwarden. The dataset is provided by the Dutch Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations and is released under a CC0-1.0 public domain license. Data is distributed in a ZIP file containing EML format files, though the Electoral Board does not support the use of that format.

Use Cases

• Analyze election outcomes based on municipality and date information mentioned in the description
• Study patterns in municipal reclassification based on the provided election results
• Compare electoral results across the listed Dutch municipalities for 2013

Strengths

• Covers a specific electoral event from 2013, providing temporal focus
• Lists four specific municipalities, offering geographic specificity
• Released under a permissive CC0-1.0 public domain license

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment
• The data provider notes they do not support the EML format used in the files

Provenance

Source

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

Collection Method

Likely contains official election results compiled by the Electoral Board.

Time Range

2013

Freshness

Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified

Geography

Netherlands, specifically municipalities including Alphen aan den Rijn, The Frisian Lakes, Heerenveen, and Leeuwarden.