Analysis of the PvdA constituency
The Labour Party is a social democratic party of which Diederik Samsom has been the political leader since 2012. The Labour Party has had 38 seats since the last elections. According to the latest opinion polls, this number has dropped to 18 seats. This is more than a halving of the number of seats.
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Positive or negative?
When the PvdA supporters talk about politics on Twitter, they mainly talk about their own party. Almost 79% of the tweets that are sent are about the PvdA itself. The majority of these tweets have a positive sentiment. romania mobile phone number list The remaining 21% of the tweets are about the VVD (13%) and the CDA (8%). Tweets about the CDA or the VVD mainly have a negative sentiment. This was in line with expectations. However, the difference between positive and negative is much greater for the VVD than for the CDA. This means that the PvdA supporters can muster more sympathy for the positions of the CDA.
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Gay Pride
The PvdA's own supporters talk most about their own party. The following words stand out from the tag cloud of messages with a positive sentiment: canal parade and gaypride4russia. The PvdA participated with a boat during the gay pride in Amsterdam. This makes it clear that such an initiative elicits many positive reactions.
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#fail
Negative messages about the PvdA by its own supporters are mainly about the JSF. #fail and #damage are the most common tags. However, the opinions of the supporters about the JSF vary considerably. One would like to see a JSF appear while the other would prefer that the money be saved to pay off the national debt.
The PvdA account gets relatively few mentions from the supporters of the VVD and the CDA. This while they are mostly negative about the PvdA. A striking result. This could also be because the PvdA supporters talk little about the VVD and the CDA. They do not seek out the conversation and like to talk about their own party.
What is also striking is that the PvdA is mentioned by far the most (of the 3 parties) by its own supporters on Twitter. With a number of almost 12,000, the PvdA has more mentions than the VVD (approx. 8,500) and the CDA (approx. 1,600) combined. Based on the opinion polls, it was expected that the PvdA would have the most negative sentiment among its own supporters. Their seats have namely dropped the most of all parties. If we are to believe the opinion polls, more than 50% of the seats have been lost.
Analysis of the VVD supporters