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Official results of local elections are especially interesting when collected at the lowest level possible, to enable analyses of voting behavior on the smallest social unit. In Antwerp, together with the city-level results, the voting results for the city districts are public too. Yet, still no possibility exists to review the official results at the neighborhood level. This lack of data makes it difficult to relate specific neighborhood characteristics to voting behavior in those neighborhoods & to compare them. Thus, to collect the data on neighborhood voting behavior, we organized an exit-poll in 18 neighborhoods of seven districts in Antwerp, during the recent county, local & district elections. This article briefly sketches the exit-poll & its organization & presents the main results. These results will be compared with the formal results on district level, & the neighborhoods will be compared to one another. The results are -- as expected -- slightly biased, although in some districts more than in others. Voting behavior in neighborhoods turns out to vary strongly. We try to explain the voting behavior with the help of several neighborhood characteristics, like the proportion of immigrants & unemployed. The analysis confirms some important correlations, but refutes others. Tables. Adapted from the source document.