1941 Curaçao general election

General elections were held in the Territory of Curaçao on 17 November 1941. Ten of the fifteen seats in the Estates of Curaçao were elected, with the remaining five appointed by the governor G.J.J. Wouters. The ten elected seats consisted of six for Curaçao, two for Aruba, one for Bonaire and one for the SSS Islands From a population of 107,891 (December 1940) only 3,953 men, less than 4% of the population, were entitled to vote in the elections. Curaçao Only one list of candidates was registered for the election on the island of Curaçao. It was the list of the Curaçaoan Roman Catholic Party (CRKP). Population: 67,317 (31 December 1940) Entitled to vote: 2,453 Valid votes: 1,477 Invalid votes: 85 #CandidateVotesResult 1 Moises Frumencio da Costa Gomez 1,379 Elected 2 John Horris Sprockel 17 Elected 3 Elias Aloisius Römer 6 Elected 4 Adolphe Willem Jan Marie Desertine 15 Elected 5 Jean André Jacques Ellis 9 Elected 6 José Maria Pedro Kroon 10 Elected 7 Charles Baggs Debrot 10 - 8 Ernesto Cecilio Martijn 6 - 9 Constan Casiano 10 - 10 Jacobus Ambrosius Jonkhout 15 - Aruba Population: 30,614 (31 December 1940) Entitled to vote: 1,323 Valid votes: 1,167 # Candidate Total per list Votes ResultList 1 (Roman Catholic Party) 1 Jacob Rudolf Arends 244 226 - 2 Henri Anton Johannes Gijsen 13 - 3 Juan Enrique Croes 5 -List 2 (Group Wever) 1 Aristides Eduviges Wever 208 208 -List 3 (Group Eman) 1 Jan Hendrik Albert Eman 689 674 Elected 2 Frederik Johannes Quant Kwartsz 15 Elected List 4 (Free Dutchman) 1 Johan Geraes Alvaer van Aggelen 26 19 - 2 Marinus Johannes Fokkers 4 - 3 Frederik Johannes Casper Beaujon 3 - Bonaire Population: 5,616 (31 December 1940) Entitled to vote: 76 Only one list of candidates was registered for the election on Bonaire. On it were two candidates: John Aniceto de Jongh (elected) Mauricio Marchena The seat for Bonaire therefore went automatically to the first candidate of the list. SSS Islands Entitled to vote: 101 William Rufus Plantz was the only candidate so the seat for the SSS Islands went automatically to him. Appointed by the governor Governor Wouters assigned Jacob Rudolf Arends Ernesto Cecilio Martijn Salomon Alfred Senior Frederik Augustus Vromans Carel Nicolaas Winkel to become members of the Estates. After Winkel resigned in 1944 because of health problems, governor P.A. Kasteel appointed Willem Pieter Maal as a new member of the Estates.Amigoe di Curacao, 3 April 1944 Aftermath The governor decided that Sprockel was the speaker of the parliament and Winkel the deputy speaker. Senior became the deputy speaker after Winkel left the parliament. The new session of the Estates started on the first Tuesday of April 1942. Incumbent members who remained a member were: Da Costa Gomez, Sprockel, Desertine, Kroon, De Jongh, Plantz, Arends, Martijn, Senior, Vromans and Winkel References Amigoe di Curaçao, 18 November 1941 Amigoe di Curaçao, 27 November 1941 expanded Category:Elections in the Netherlands Antilles Curacao Category:November 1941 in North America