ABSTRACT
This paper compares the political preferences of the inhabitants of Amsterdam and Almere as they show up in four elections in 1994 and 1998. The sensational elections during 2002, including the apparently political murder of Pim Fortuyn, certainly affected the public climate in the country. The results of these municipal and parliamentary elections could not be analysed in this paper in any depth. At first sight, however, they do not seriously impair the conclusions drawn from the results of the earlier elections and we will on a few occasions refer to them.
