2006 Dutch election

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Christian Democratic Appeal - Christian democrats, current ruling party
Labour - typical European center-left party, much like the German SPD or pre-Blair Labour
People's Party for Freedom and Democracy - liberal party, although not liberal at all in the American sense, most economically conservative party, in the government coalition
Socialists - more extreme left wing party
List Pim Fortuyn - supporters of Pim Fortuyn obviously. Remember that while anti-immigration he was also rather socially liberal and slightly right of center economically (which is why while I'd never vote for LPF I think it's rather unfair to lump him in with people like Le Pen and Haider, not only did he never show any Nazi sympathies but being a moderate libertarian on non-immigration issues is the polar opposite of those guys)
Green Left - You often can't tell what a Green party is like just by them being Green, just look at the massive difference between the American and Canadian Greens, but the name is Green Left so I'll assume they're left and probably like the German Greens
Democrats 66 - The party that withdrew their support from the coalition and caused the elections, they're a social liberal party which is much like the British Liberal Democrats, if you want to make a massive massive generalization you can just say left-libertarianism
Christian Union - A mostly socially conservative party, however they are a bit to the left on economics.
Reformed Political Party - nutjobs who in addition to taking all the main socially conservative positions want to ban television, women's suffrage, insurance, vaccinations and working on Sundays.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

VVD almost certainly.

BRTD VVD is a liberal party. It's a right of centre liberal party much like the Free Democrats in Germany, the Flemish Liberals and Democrats in Belgium, Venestre in Denmark, and the Reform Party in Estonia. It's part of a large group of European market liberal parties that are usually considered to be liberal and belong to such groups as Liberal International and European Liberal Democrats and Reform party.

oh, that's a typo. I meant not liberal at all in the AMERICAN sense. Time to fix it.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

With these results the Parliament would be like this:

Christian Democratic Appeal - 46
Labour - 46
People's Party for Freedom and Democracy - 12
Socialists - 0
List Pim Fortuyn - 35
Green Left - 0
Democrats 66 - 12
Christian Union - 0
Reformed Political Party - 0

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Christian Democratic Appeal - Christian democrats, current ruling party
Labour - typical European center-left party, much like the German SPD or pre-Blair Labour

I'd say Blairite Labour. Not that much difference in policies.

Hmmmm, in that case I should change my support to the Socialists.

Democrats 66 - The party that withdrew their support from the coalition and caused the elections, they're a social liberal party which is much like the British Liberal Democrats, if you want to make a massive massive generalization you can just say left-libertarianism
Christian Union - A mostly socially conservative party, however they are a bit to the left on economics.
Reformed Political Party - nutjobs who in addition to taking all the main socially conservative positions want to ban television, women's suffrage, insurance, vaccinations and working on Sundays.

Overall a nice characterization of the Dutch political parties Red, couldn't have done it better.
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Thanks, that's awesome since I was somewhat guessing on some of those. Even someone who follows international elections as much as me sometimes has a tough time pinning down the ideologies of European political parties.

Who are you voting for by the way?

If these results were the election (and my vote changed to the Socialists):
Christian Democratic Appeal - 47 seats
Labour - 28 seats
People's Party for Freedom and Democracy - 19 seats
Socialists - 19 seats
List Pim Fortuyn - 28 seats
Green Left - 0 seats
Democrats 66 - 9 seats
Christian Union- 0 seats
Reformed Political Party - 0 seats

What type of coalition would result from that?