The Dutch government coalition parties all suffered major losses in Wednesdays municipal elections.With 77% of the votes counted the biggest loser was the government coalition party PVDA ( Labour party) which lost more than 243 council seats around the country ( dropping from 863 to 620 seats) . The other government coalition party VVD (Conservative Party) lost 104 council seats country-wide, dropping from 1002 to 898 seats
Biggest winners were the Socialist party (SP) who gained 159 seats, going from 186 to 345 seats and the D66 ( Democratic party) which gained more than 200 seats - going from 414 to 614 seats.
Wilders right-wing Eurosceptic anti-Muslim party dropped from a total of 17 to 16 seats.
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