Results
Five counting rounds were necessary to elect the lijsttrekker. Alexander Pechtold was voted the new lijsttrekker. In the final round he received 2.009 of the 3.823 votes, 52.6% of the total in the sixth count of the election. Runner-up was Lousewies van der Laan, obtaining 1.752 votes, 45.8% of the total. 62 votes were declared invalid. In the first round Pechtold obtained 1.860 out of 3.905 votes (47.6%), Lousewies van der Laan 1.662 votes (42.6%) and Hein van Meeteren 182 votes (4.7%).
Read more about this topic: 2006 Democrats 66 Leadership Election
Famous quotes containing the word results:
“Consider what you have in the smallest chosen library. A company of the wisest and wittiest men that could be picked out of all civil countries in a thousand years have set in best order the results of their learning and wisdom. The men themselves were hid and inaccessible, solitary, impatient of interruption, fenced by etiquette; but the thought which they did not uncover in their bosom friend is here written out in transparent words to us, the strangers of another age.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“The chief benefit, which results from philosophy, arises in an indirect manner, and proceeds more from its secret, insensible influence, than from its immediate application.”
—David Hume (1711–1776)