D66 by far the largest on Woudestein, Karremans a vote magnet in Kralingen

D66 received 36 percent of all votes at the polling station in the Langeveld Building. The PVV received less than 2 percent. D66 also came out on top at the polling stations at Erasmus MC, Erasmus University College and RSC/RVSV.

Although ten days before the election D66 was still neck and neck with GroenLinks–PvdA in an EM poll, the difference on election day turned out to be significant. GroenLinks–PvdA received 184 votes (16 percent) at the Woudestein polling station, while Rob Jetten’s party won 399. The VVD was the third largest party with 13 percent of the votes, followed by the CDA in fourth place with nearly 10 percent.

Little support for PVV and BBB

The PVV, which finished second nationally, received almost no support on campus. This was already apparent from EM’s earlier poll. Geert Wilders’ party got less than 2 percent of the votes. The same goes for BBB, with only two voters on campus: one for Caroline van der Plas and one for Mona Keizer.

A few parties performed noticeably better on campus than in the national elections: the Partij voor de Dieren with over 5 percent of the votes, DENK with almost 4 percent, and BIJ1 with more than 2 percent.

Karremans the vote magnet

At Erasmus MC and EUC, the top four were the same. At RSC/RVSV, the VVD came second, with almost as many votes as D66. This seems largely due to the popularity of Vincent Karremans in Kralingen.

At RSC/RVSV, they haven’t forgotten their former chair Karremans. The VVD politician (number four on the party list) has once again proved to be a vote magnet among Rotterdam students and Kralingen residents. At the society, he received the most votes of any candidate: 273, nearly 20 percent of all votes at that polling station. Karremans also performed well on Woudestein, where he received eighty votes – four times as many as party leader Dilan Yeşilgöz. At Erasmus University College, Karremans accounted for more than half of all VVD votes.

Preference votes

Another notable candidate when it comes to preference votes is Sarah el Boujdaini. The chair of D66’s Rotterdam branch, number 19 on the list, received the most preference votes after party leader Rob Jetten on Woudestein, with 46. El Boujdaini was also the number two for D66 at the polling stations at Erasmus MC, the university college and RSC/RVSV.

Former Philosophy student Naomi Tuininga, number two for BIJ1, received more votes at these four polling stations than her party leader Tofik Dibi.