Dutch General Election, 2006 - Trivia

Trivia

• The OSCE/ODIHR has deployed an election assessment mission to the Netherlands.
• The CDA party congress was ended by Roger Glover's song "Love is All".
• The PvdA party congress was ended by the Marco Borsato song "Rood" (Red).
• The VVD party congress was ended by Mick Jagger song "Let's Work".
• Filemon Wesselink, presenter of the (political) television program Lijst-0 for the youth channel BNN, was elected No. 30 on the D66 candidate list. Wesselink tried in the program to become a candidate for various political parties, secretly taping each party's interview process. Although a candidate for D66, Wesselink withdrew himself from the list.
• The municipality of Schiermonnikoog was able to tally its result first.
• When PvdA leader Wouter Bos wanted to vote he couldn't because the PvdA had converted his 'stempas' to a 'kiezerspas', making it possible for him to vote anywhere in the country, but it also meant he could no longer use his 'stempas'. He didn't know about this, which resulted in an unpleasant surprise, after which he had to go and collect his new 'kiezerspas' in order to vote.
• In the hamlet of Marle, with the smallest voting bureau in the Netherlands (housed in the living room of a farm) and with an electorate of 51, 55 people voted, giving it a turnout of 108%. This was made possible by a the 'stempas' (mobile voting card), which allows people to vote at any voting booth within their municipality.