Dutch Municipal Reclassification Election Results from 2017

2017 results for municipal reclassification elections in the Netherlands, including municipalities such as Leeuwarden, Groningen, and Sudwest-Fryslan. The dataset is provided by the Dutch Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations and is available under a CC0-1.0 license. The data is distributed in EML format within a ZIP file, though the Electoral Board does not support this format.

Use Cases

• Analyze election outcomes based on municipality names and dates mentioned in the description.
• Study the impact of municipal reclassifications on local governance based on the 2017 event.
• Map electoral participation and results across specific Dutch regions listed in the overview.

Strengths

• Data is provided by the authoritative Dutch Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations.
• Released under a permissive CC0-1.0 public domain license.
• Covers a specific electoral event (2017 municipal reclassifications) with named municipalities.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• The Electoral Board does not support the provided EML data format.

Provenance

Source

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

Collection Method

Likely official records from the 2017 municipal reclassification elections.

Time Range

2017

Freshness

Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Geography

Netherlands, specifically municipalities including Leeuwarden, Groningen, Sudwest-Fryslan, Waadhoeke