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13-504: The municipality consists of the following sub-municipalities : Wellen, Berlingen, Herten and Ulbeek. Other population centres and hamlets include: Bos, Beurs, Kukkelberg, Langenakker, Oetersloven, Overbroek, Russelt, and Vrolingen. Archaeological findings suggest the place was inhabited already during the Frankish period (5th to 7th century). Debris from the river Herk on that spot made the soil fertile for farming. However, any mention of

26-509: A coalition government. These municipal elections were the first elections in the Netherlands since the new cabinet was formed. Local parties won 30% of the votes. The Christian Democratic Appeal became the largest party nationally, earning 14% of the votes. D66 and SP also saw significant rises compared to the 2010 elections, getting 12% and 7% respectively. VVD , although still ranked third nationwide, lost significantly compared to

39-647: Is a subdivision of a municipality in Belgium and, until March 2014, in the Netherlands as well. Each municipality in Belgium that existed as a separate entity on 1 January 1961 but no longer existed as such after 1 January 1977 as the result of a merger is considered a section or deelgemeente within most municipalities. In addition, the City of Brussels is also divided in four sections that correspond to

52-574: Is the term ancienne commune (former municipality), which has no official existence. A section or deelgemeente does not bear any administrative powers. However, the Belgian Constitution provides the possibility of implementing districts for any municipality with at least 100,000 inhabitants, giving de facto political and administrative jurisdiction to the sections. Only the municipality of Antwerp has implemented nine districts , Belgium's lowest level of administration. In

65-431: The Netherlands . This election determines the composition of the municipal councils for the following four years. Municipal elections are, unless exempted by an act of parliament, held every fourth year in the Netherlands as prescribed by the constitution . The previous municipal elections were held on 3 March 2010, the elections were originally planned for 5 March 2014. Because this date coincided with Ash Wednesday ,

78-568: The deelgemeentevoorzitter , their own aldermen, deelgemeentewethouders , and their own elected assembly, the deelgemeenteraad . Deelgemeenten were abolished in March 2014, after the 2014 municipal elections . Since 2014, districts of Amsterdam have a bestuurscommissie (literally "governance commission"), and the deelgemeenten of Rotterdam are now called gebieden (literally "areas"). Dutch municipal elections, 2014 Municipal elections were held on 19 March 2014 in most municipalities in

91-670: The 2010 elections, winning 12% of the votes. The undisputed loser of the elections, however, was the PvdA , getting 10% of the votes and losing its plurality in Amsterdam , Rotterdam and The Hague . The election results in the largest cities are as following: Geert Wilders 's speech after the elections was widely seen as controversial because he led a chant at a rally after municipal elections last week, asking supporters in The Hague: "Do you want more or fewer Moroccans in this city and in

104-455: The Netherlands, deelgemeenten were administrative divisions that could be instituted by any municipality. The city of Amsterdam was the first to do this. In the early 1980s, the municipality was divided into fifteen deelgemeenten. This amount was decreased to eight in 2010. Seven of these were officially called stadsdeel . Rotterdam followed in the 1990s and was divided into fourteen deelgemeenten . Deelgemeenten had their own mayor,

117-506: The communes that existed before their merger in 1921. The term deelgemeente is used in Dutch and the term section in French to refer to such a subdivision of a municipality anywhere in Belgium, municipalities having been merged throughout the country in the 1970s . Herefor, sections or deelgemeenten usually were independent municipalities before the fusions in the 1970s. In French,

130-534: The elections were rescheduled to 19 March 2014. The elections were held in all municipalities, except those that were amalgamated in 2013 and 2014 or were intended to amalgamate in 2015. Goeree-Overflakkee , Molenwaard and Schagen elected their councils late 2012; Alphen aan den Rijn , De Friese Meren , Heerenveen and Leeuwarden in November 2013; and 16 other municipalities will be involved in amalgamation and will have their elections in November 2014. There

143-703: The name Wellene or Welnis doesn't occur until the second half of the 12th century. The name Wellen derives from the Middle Dutch " wellene ", meaning "source" or "pit" or, alternately, from Latin terra Villina , "agricultural holding". Wellen was long associated with the abbey of Munsterbilzen , founded around 670. This Belgian Limburg location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Deelgemeente A deelgemeente ( Dutch pronunciation: [ˈdeːlɣəˌmeːntə] , literally sub-municipality ), or section ( French pronunciation: [sɛksjɔ̃] ),

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156-399: The term section is sometimes confused with commune (for: municipality), especially in larger cities like Charleroi and Mons as the sections composing the municipality used to be individual communes before the 1970s. It is therefore not rare to hear that Mons comprises "19 communes " when in fact Mons is a single municipality ( commune ) divided into 19 sections . In addition, there

169-525: Was some confusion among voters in these municipalities about these alternative dates. In the 2010 elections , local parties got 24% of the vote, with national parties taking most of the remaining seats. Since then a general election was held in 2012 for the House of Representatives . In this election , the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy and Labour Party won a combined 79 out of 150 seats and formed

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