Editing Pekela (section)

== Governance ==
The mayor (''[[burgemeester]]'') of Pekela is Jaap Kuin of the [[Labour Party (Netherlands)|Labour Party]].<ref name="mayor_now"/> The [[Municipal council (Netherlands)|municipal council]] consists of 15 seats, which are divided as follows:

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!colspan="16"|'''Municipality seats'''
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|'''Party'''||'''[[2006 Dutch municipal elections|2006]]'''||'''[[2010 Dutch municipal elections|2010]]'''||'''[[2014 Dutch municipal elections|2014]]'''||'''[[2018 Dutch municipal elections|2018]]'''<ref>{{Cite web |date=21 March 2018 |title=Pekela municipal election 2018|url=https://www.verkiezingsuitslagen.nl/verkiezingen/detail/GR20180321/671526|access-date=14 May 2024|website=verkiezingsuitslagen.nl|language=nl}}</ref>||'''[[2022 Dutch municipal elections|2022]]'''<ref>{{Cite web |date=16 March 2022 |title=Pekela municipal election 2022 |url=https://www.verkiezingsuitslagen.nl/verkiezingen/detail/GR20220316/731054|access-date=14 May 2024|website=verkiezingsuitslagen.nl|language=nl}}</ref>
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|[[Socialistische Partij (Nederland)|SP]]||3||3||4||4||3
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|Samen Voor Pekela||-||4||3||3||3
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|[[Partij van de Arbeid (Nederland)|PvdA]]||7||3||2||2||2
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|[[Christen-Democratisch Appèl|CDA]]||2||1||2||2||2
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|[[GroenLinks]]||1||2||1||1||2
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|Party for Freedom|PVV||-||-||-||2||2
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||[[Volkspartij voor Vrijheid en Democratie|VVD]]||1||1||2||1||1
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|[[ChristenUnie]]||1||-||1||-||-
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|[[United Communist Party (Netherlands)|VCP]]||-||-||1||-||-
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|'''Total'''||'''15'''||'''15'''||'''15'''||'''15'''||'''15'''
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