1991 Netherlands Antilles island council elections
Island council elections were held in the Netherlands Antilles on 12 April 1991 to elect the members of the island councils of its five island territories. The election was won by the Bonaire Patriotic Union (6 seats) in Bonaire, the National People's Party (10 seats) in Curaçao, the Windward Islands People's Movement (4 seats) in Saba, and the Sint Maarten Patriotic Alliance (4 seats) in Sint Maarten.
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All 49 seats in the island councils of Bonaire (9), Curaçao (21), Saba (5), Sint Eustatius (5) and Sint Maarten (9) | ||
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Results
editBonaire
edit| Party | Votes | % | Seats | |
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| Bonaire Patriotic Union | 2,759 | 52.16 | 6 | |
| Bonaire Social Party | 1,080 | 20.42 | 2 | |
| Bonaire Democratic Party | 807 | 15.26 | 1 | |
| Bonaire Workers' Party | 487 | 9.21 | 0 | |
| Caribbean Alliance for Solidarity | 156 | 2.95 | 0 | |
| Total | 5,289 | 100.00 | 9 | |
| Valid votes | 5,289 | 97.66 | ||
| Invalid/blank votes | 127 | 2.34 | ||
| Total votes | 5,416 | 100.00 | ||
| Source: Amigoe[1] | ||||
Curaçao
edit| Party | Votes | % | Seats | +/– | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| National People's Party | 33,164 | 47.02 | 10 | +2 | |
| Workers' Liberation Front–Soshal Independiente | 16,603 | 23.54 | 5 | +2 | |
| New Antilles Movement | 10,360 | 14.69 | 3 | –3 | |
| Democratic Party | 6,624 | 9.39 | 2 | –2 | |
| Nos Patria | 3,780 | 5.36 | 1 | New | |
| Total | 70,531 | 100.00 | 21 | 0 | |
| Source: Amigoe,[2][3] Hoofdstembureau Curaçao[4] | |||||
Saba
edit| Party | Votes | % | Seats | +/– | |
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| Windward Islands People's Movement | 437 | 71.99 | 4 | +2 | |
| Saba Democratic Labour Movement | 170 | 28.01 | 1 | –2 | |
| Total | 607 | 100.00 | 5 | 0 | |
| Source: Johnson[5] | |||||
Sint Maarten
editThe Sint Maarten Patriotic Alliance (SPA) led by Vance James Jr. emerged as the largest party, winning 4 of the 9 seats. The SPA and the Progressive Democratic Party (PDP) agreed to form a coalition government. On 28 August 1991 the SPA–PDP government collapsed. PDP political leader Millicent Acuna Lopez-de Weever said that "fundamental philosophical differences" with the SPA caused the coalition "to break".
| Party | Votes | % | Seats | +/– | |
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| Sint Maarten Patriotic Alliance | 3,457 | 40.06 | 4 | +2 | |
| Democratic Party | 2,837 | 32.88 | 3 | –4 | |
| Progressive Democratic Party | 1,745 | 20.22 | 2 | New | |
| National Reformation Party | 438 | 5.08 | 0 | New | |
| United Democratic Party | 69 | 0.80 | 0 | New | |
| Antillean National Movement | 36 | 0.42 | 0 | New | |
| People's Electoral Movement | 28 | 0.32 | 0 | New | |
| Partido Pro Penshonado | 19 | 0.22 | 0 | New | |
| Total | 8,629 | 100.00 | 9 | 0 | |
| Source: Lynch & Lynch[6] | |||||
References
edit- ^ "UPB met klinkende uitslag naar abslolute [sic] meerderheid". Amigoe (in Dutch). Delpher. 13 April 1991. p. 11. Retrieved 25 May 2021.
- ^ "PNP-FOL/SI twee keer zoveel stemmen als DP-MAN-NP samen". Amigoe (in Dutch). Delpher. 13 May 1991. p. 3. Retrieved 4 May 2021.
- ^ "Kiezers in '91 onvriendelijk jegens lijsttrekkers". Amigoe (in Dutch). Delpher. 15 April 1991. p. 3. Retrieved 4 May 2021.
- ^ "Eerdere verkiezingen". Hoofdstembureau Curaçao (in Dutch). Archived from the original on 11 August 2014. Retrieved 8 February 2015.
- ^ Johnson, Will (2006). Dreaming big. Alkmaar: Falstaff Media. pp. 77–78, 178–179. ISBN 9077751327.
- ^ Edgar H. Lynch & Julian C. Lynch (1999). Know Your Political History – Revised Edition. House of Nehesi Publishers, pp. 45–48, 63, 187–188.