The right-wing Liberal VVD may have emerged as the biggest party after the 2012 general election, but they also lost most members, the Volkskrant reports on Friday.

The VVD lost 7.5% of its membership base last year, largely due to the unease created by plans to make health insurance income-dependent, which have since been dropped. The party now has 35,362 members, making it the fourth biggest in terms of membership.

The left-wing greens GroenLinks, the Christian Democrats (CDA) and ChristenUnie all lost members, but the CDA still has the biggest membership, at over 59,000, the Volkskrant research showed.

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The Liberal democratic party D66 was the biggest net gainer, with an increase in members of 9.5%. It now has over 23,000 members. The fundamentalist Christian SGP boosted its membership by 6.1% to 29,648.

Geert Wilders’ anti-Islam PVV does not feature in the statistics because he is the only member.

In total, over 315,000 people are members of a political party, an increase of 1.2% over the year before.