Editing Reiderland

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'''Reiderland''' ({{IPA|nl|ˌrɛidərˈlɑnt|-|Nl-Reiderland.oga}}) is a former [[Municipalities of the Netherlands|municipality]] in the province [[Groningen (province)|Groningen]] in the northeastern [[Netherlands]], which was founded in 1990 during a large municipal reorganisation.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dL1RBKb7iQYC&pg=PA29|title=Recovery of Local and Regional Authorities in Financial Difficulties: Draft Report|date=2002-01-01|publisher=Council of Europe|isbn=9789287149589|pages=29|language=en}}</ref> The former municipalities [[Finsterwolde]] and [[Bad Nieuweschans]] were abolished and added to [[Beerta]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://welections.wordpress.com/author/glhermine/|title=glhermine|website=World Elections|language=en-US|access-date=2017-05-30}}</ref> In 1992, the new municipality was given its current name.{{Citation needed|date=May 2017}} In 2010 it joined in the municipality [[Oldambt (municipality)|Oldambt]].<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gaxzAAAAQBAJ&pg=PT315|title=De grens: langs de randen van Nederland|last=Witt|first=Enno de|date=2013-03-05|publisher=Singel Uitgeverijen|isbn=9789025370336|pages=315|language=nl}}</ref>

==Politics==

Reiderland was one of the few municipalities in the Netherlands that still had [[Communism|communist]] councillors after the dissolution of the [[Communist Party of the Netherlands]] in 1989. (As of 2006, it was one of only four Dutch municipalities to have any, the other three being [[Heiloo]], [[Scheemda]] and [[Lemsterland]].) The [[New Communist Party of the Netherlands]] was in fact the largest party in Reiderland from 1990 to 1998 and again from 2002 to 2006. [[Finsterwolde]] and [[Beerta]], which was the only town in the Netherlands that ever had a communist mayor, had long been communist strongholds.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Keesman |first=Susanne |date=2013 |title=The Communist Menace in Finsterwolde: Conspiring against Local Authorities? A Case Study on the Dutch Battle against Communism, 1945-1951 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/23644498 |journal=Historical Social Research / Historische Sozialforschung |volume=38 |issue=1 (143) |pages=211–231 |issn=0172-6404}}</ref>

In the 1998 municipal election, the [[New Communist Party of the Netherlands]] received 35.7% of the votes, behind the [[Labour Party (Netherlands)|Labour Party]]'s 40.3%, but in 2002 it received 34.1%, ahead of the Labour Party's 24.7%. It won five of the thirteen seats on the local council and formed the Court of Mayor and the Aldermen in alliance with local party Gemeentebelangen, although the two parties were traditionally foes. In the [[Dutch municipal election, 2006|2006 election]], however, the NCPN lost 3 of its 5 seats, getting only 18.3% of the vote, behind the Labour Party's 38.1%, Gemeentebelangen's 20.4%, and the [[Socialist Party (Netherlands)|Socialist Party]]'s 19.0%, and consequently lost its positions on the Court of Mayor and Aldermen. For the remaining years of the municipality's existence, the Labour Party's had 5 seats on the local council, the Socialist Party 3 seats, local party Gemeentebelangen 3 seats as well, and the NCPN 2 seats.{{Citation needed|date=May 2017}}

Reiderland also drew some attention in the [[Dutch general election, 2002|2002 general election]], when the [[Pim Fortuyn List]] received 22.9% of the vote in the municipality, the party's best result in the province of [[Groningen (province)|Groningen]].{{Citation needed|date=May 2017}}

== Population centres ==

Towns and villages in the municipality include:
* [[Beersterhoogen]]
* [[Beerta]]
* [[Booneschans]]
* [[Drieborg]]
* [[Ekamp]]
* [[Finsterwolde]]
* [[Finsterwolderhamrik]]
* [[Ganzedijk]]
* [[Goldhoorn]]
* [[Hamdijk]]
* [[Hongerige Wolf]]
* [[Kostverloren]]
* [[Kromme-Elleboog]]
* [[Nieuw-Beerta]]
* [[Nieuwe Statenzijl]]
* [[Bad Nieuweschans]]
* [[Oude Statenzijl]]
* [[Oudedijk]]
* [[Oudezijl]]
* [[Ulsda]]

==The old Reiderland==
{{see also|Rheiderland}}
'''Reiderland''' is also the name of an area of land in the [[Netherlands]] and [[Germany]] that was drowned with 33 villages and a town in 1277 when the [[Dollart]] inlet formed. Much of the area has been re-[[polder|empoldered]] since. See [[List of settlements lost to floods in the Netherlands#Drowned villages in Groningen province]].

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* {{Commons category-inline|Reiderland}}

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[[Category:Municipalities of the Netherlands disestablished in 2010]]
[[Category:Former municipalities of Groningen (province)]]
[[Category:Oldambt (municipality)]]

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