Pirate Party: no seat, most popular in college towns

At the moment approximately 96.6 percent of the votes for the Dutch Elections for 2010 are counted. As a political party specifically focused on copyright, it is interesting to see how the Pirate Party has done in the recent elections.

To be honest, they haven’t done very well. With 0.1% of the votes, the Pirate Party has thus received no seat in the house of representatives. Assuming that this year approximately 12 million people were able to vote and there was a turnout of 75%, this would mean that the Pirate Party has received approximately 105000 votes.

The highest percentages Pirate Party voters are residents of Zandvoort (0.301%), Vaals (0.27%) Delft (0.248%), Ten Boer (0.223%), Eindhoven (0.208%), Groningen (0.206%) and Leiden ( 0.194%).

Remarkably, four out of seven are typical college towns...