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In the Netherlands, you can get a parliament seat if you get 0.66% percent (1/150) of the vote. So it is easier for the small Christians than in Germany. If people knew their votes wouldn't be wasted, perhaps more people would vote 'Bibeltreu' than nowadays.

One of the Dutch Christian parties, the SGP or 'Staatskundig Geroformeerde Partij', is definitely fundie, they don't allow women to vote(their husbands do it for them). the otheone, the CU or ChristenUnie is more mixed, and recently got a lot of CDA voters who thought the CDA had become too conservative/neoliberal.

by GreatZamfir on Wed Feb 27th, 2008 at 04:17:42 AM EST
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If people knew their votes wouldn't be wasted, perhaps more people would vote 'Bibeltreu' than nowadays.

I know, and this is why I shudder at the thought of even just tens of thousands of PBC list-voters: those must be real hardcore creationists; and they proselytize. Just checked prior results (the first figure is votes on party lists, the second votes for directly elected candidates):

  1. 65,651/26,864
  2. 71,941/46,379
  3. 101,645/71,106
  4. 108,605/57,027

That's solid growth in list votes.

*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.
by DoDo on Wed Feb 27th, 2008 at 04:46:42 AM EST
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That's
1994-8:    +10%/+73%
1998-2002: +41%/+53%
2002-5:     +7%/-20%
Maybe they've reached their ceiling.

We have met the enemy, and he is us — Pogo
by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Wed Feb 27th, 2008 at 05:02:22 AM EST
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Given that turnout grew 1994-8 and fell 2002-5, and that the latter was only three years, I think those growths are comparable. (The direct vote isn't truly comparable for minor parties: if they don't manage to put a candidate on the ballot paper, potential PBC voters can't draw the X.)

On the other hand, I checked how they fared in recent regional elections where they ran, and that does indicate a ceiling:

Baden-Württenberg: 2001-20,528, 2006-26,759
Rhineland-Palatinate: 2001-5,379, 2006-4,973
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern: 2002-1,312, 2006-1,957
Bremen: 2003-1,009, 2007-960
Hessen: 2003-6,674, 2008-did not run
Lower Saxony: 2003-7,819, 2008-5,851
Hamburg: 2004-1,571, 2008-did not run

*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.

by DoDo on Wed Feb 27th, 2008 at 06:16:02 AM EST
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In Spain you have to get 3% of the vote in any one constituency. However, given the constituency sizes this only plays a role in Madrid, which elects 35 seats (Barcelona elects 31).

We have met the enemy, and he is us — Pogo
by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Wed Feb 27th, 2008 at 04:57:33 AM EST
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