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Background: Dutch political parties

 This background brief provides an overview of all registed Dutch political parties. The most important political parties, that have a chance of entering the Dutch parliament are put into an international context, for non-Dutch people to understand their general politics.

Insight Democracy is currently following the Dutch Elections through AI

We are currently analysing three dimensions of Dutch politics since the last elections in 2021 with AI:

You have access to this data through our idem. toolbox. Take a look at the idem.Stakeholder tool, if you are interested in any specific stakeholder. To get an overview of relevant stakeholder to a specific issue, make sure to visit the idem.Issues tool. The data is combined with human intelligence on our the idem.Blog, provided by a small international team with experience in the Netherlands. This is meant to make all three dimensions of Dutch politics accessible to non-native stakeholder in the run-up to the 2023 elections. The provided tool is also useful for Dutch voters seeking to compare different lawmakers against themselves and others within these three dimensions. Planned updates will combine our data with polling data, to further narrow down which stakeholder are likely to enter parliament at the end of the year.

If you are interested to follow the developments of our project, consider subscribing to updates of our current analysis of the Dutch elections and future plans to implement our models on other political landscapes, such as the 2024 EU Election:

The idem. toolbox

The team has sorted and analysed large amounts of data from public sources in an effort to use AI models to make insights into the work and presentation of Dutch stakeholder accessible. The data includes:

  • thousands of media articles, split into over 50 thousand paragraphs;
  • hours of plenary debates, split into over 100 thousand individual speeches;
  • all 4 thousand press release published by the political parties currently in Parliament.

    • Natural Language Toolkit (NLTK) is used for language processing and categorisation, while Dutch language models developed by the KU Leuven are used for sentiment analysis. The team is currently designing their own models specialised in political texts, taking their experience during the analysis of the Dutch elections on board.

    This large database of public documents about Dutch politics is kept in Dutch, while English queries are translated using DeepL.

    How to use the idem. toolbox

    Next to a blog, in which our analysts keep you up to date on the background and developments of the Dutch Elections, the idem. toolbox allows you to take that deep dive into the stakeholder and stakeholder organisations in Dutch politics. This makes use of the database of public information, created by the team.

    idem.Stakeholder

    If you want to browse Dutch stakeholder and their organisations, you can search the database and find general information about these on their individual pages, such as how often they were mentioned in different sources or what issues they are most associated with.

    idem.Issues

    The issues page lets you be totally free in the issues you want to focus on. Simply type your interest in the issues search bar and the tool will identify stakeholder and organisations that have been mentioned in the same context as your issue. This will allow you easy identification of relevant stakeholders closer to your interests.

    Elections?

    The Dutch elections are happening in -503 days, on 22 November 2023. If you want to know more about why there are elections, read our coverage of the fall of the Dutch government. If you are interested in a deep dive into how Dutch elections work, we have a background brief on the Dutch Elections. Finally, sharing his experiences as a foreigner in the Netherlands, one of our analysts wrote a background brief on the Dutch political system for the non-Dutch. The following are important dates to keep in mind, while keeping an eye on the idem.Blog:

    Date Deadline
    28 August Registration of political parties
    9 October Registration of candidates
    11 October Registration for abroad postal voting
    25 October Registration for domestic postal voting
    22 November Election Day
    30 November Official results
    6 December Resignation current parliament and sitting new parliament