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Elections in the Netherlands Antilles were held for two territorial levels of government: the state, and the island territories.
The Netherlands Antilles had a multi-party system, with numerous political parties to form coalition governments after the elections. The Estates (Staten) consisted of 21 or 22 members, elected for a four-year term. Its seats were distributed among the island territories:
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| Island territory | 1948–1950 | 1950–1977 | 1977–1983 | 1983–1986 | 1986–2010 |
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| Aruba | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | – |
| Bonaire | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| Curaçao | 8 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 14 |
| Windward Islands (Saba, Sint Eustatius and Sint Maarten) | - | 1 | 1 | – | – |
| Saba | 1 | – | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Sint Eustatius | 1 | – | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Sint Maarten | 1 | – | – | 1 | 3 |
| Total | 21 | 22 | 22 | 24 | 22 |
2002 general election
Main article: 2002 Netherlands Antilles general election2006 general election
Main article: 2006 Netherlands Antilles general electionThe 2006 general election resulted in the last Estates that would sit for four years. It preceded the 2010 Netherlands Antilles general election, which took place in January and was dissolved upon the dissolution of the Netherlands Antilles.
2010 general election
Main article: 2010 Netherlands Antilles general electionSee also
Notes
- ^ In 1977, Saba and Sint Eustatius were allowed to send 2 non-voting representatives to the Estates due to the electoral weight of Sint Maarten in the election for the Windward Islands voting representative to the Estates. This representative continued to represent Saba, Sint Eustatius and Sint Maarten until the territory was split up in 1983.
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These three form the SSS islands that with the ABC islands comprise the Dutch Caribbean, of which the BES islands are not direct Kingdom constituents but subsumed with the country of the Netherlands. Physiographically, these continental islands are not part of the volcanic Windward Islands arc, although sometimes grouped with them culturally and politically. Disputed territories administered by Guyana. Disputed territories administered by Colombia. Bermuda is an isolated North Atlantic oceanic island, physiographically not part of the Lucayan Archipelago, Antilles, Caribbean Sea nor North American continental nor South American continental islands. It is grouped with the Northern American region, but occasionally also with the Caribbean region culturally. | |||||
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