Lisa Westerveld

Elisabeth Marij (Lisa) Westerveld (born 16 November 1981) is a Dutch politician serving as a member of GroenLinks in the House of Representatives of the Netherlands since 2017. Between 2014 and 2017 she was a member of the municipality council of Nijmegen.

Elisabeth Marij Westerveld
Member of Municipality Council of Nijmegen
In office
27 March 2014 – March 2017
Member of House of Representatives
Assumed office
23 March 2017
Personal details
Born (1981-11-16) November 16, 1981
Aalten, Netherlands
Political partyGroenlinks from 2010-present
Other political
affiliations		SP until 2010
Alma materRadboud University Nijmegen

Early life and career

Westerveld was born and raised in Aalten. She is from a family that were loyal voters of the Christian Union.[1] She attended Christelijk College Schaersvoorde when she was a teenager.[2]

She moved to Nijmegen for university, where she studied philosophy at the Radboud University Nijmegen. From 2007 until 2009 she was chairwoman of the National Student Union (LSVb). In 2010 she graduated with a master's degree in political philosophy.[1]

After completing her studies she started to work as a spokesperson and political lobbyist for the General Education Union.[1][2]

Politics

She was first a member of the SP.[2] She became a member of Groenlinks after she stopped at the National student union in 2009.[1]

For the 2012 Dutch general election she was placed 22nd on the party list and therefore wasn't able to get elected as Groenlinks only obtained four seats. In 2014 she got elected into the municipality council of Nijmegen, where she was placed second on the party list. She got the most votes of women candidates in Nijmegen in that election.[3]

In 2017 Groenlinks won 14 seats in the House of Representatives. Westerveld was placed 14th on the party list which would initially be enough to be get a seat, but because an candidate placed 19th on the party list was elected with enough preference votes she almost lost the seat. Westerveld garnered 18.000 preference votes which was eventually enough to get a seat in the House of Representatives.[4] In 2021 she was reelected based on preferences votes again. Groenlinks won 8 seats but Westerveld was placed 10th on the party list, she got 33,172 preference votes was passed the threshold to get a seat.[5]

Electoral history
A (possibly incomplete) overview of Dutch elections Lisa Westerveld participated in
Election Party Candidate number Votes
2012 Dutch general election GroenLinks 17 1.458
2014 Dutch municipal elections in Nijmegen GroenLinks
2017 Dutch general election GroenLinks 14 17.828
2018 Dutch municipal elections in Nijmegen GroenLinks 50
2019 Dutch provincial elections in Gelderland GroenLinks 50
2021 Dutch general election GroenLinks 10 33.172
2022 Dutch municipal elections in Nijmegen GroenLinks 50

References
  1. "Nijmeegse Lisa Westerveld klopt op deur Tweede Kamer". www.gld.nl (in Dutch). 2 January 2017. Retrieved 15 March 2022.
  2. "GroenLinks-Kamerlid Westerveld: Aan mij waren kerk en geloof niet besteed". RD.nl (in Dutch). Retrieved 15 March 2022.
  3. "Lisa Westerveld wil voor GroenLinks naar Kamer". gelderlander.nl. Retrieved 15 March 2022.
  4. "Voorkeurstemmen brengen drie vrouwen en een boer in de Tweede Kamer". nos.nl (in Dutch). Retrieved 15 March 2022.
  5. "Wie kreeg de meeste stemmen, wie de minste, en wie haalde het nét niet?". RTL Nieuws (in Dutch). 24 March 2021. Retrieved 15 March 2022.
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