1958 Netherlands Antilles general election

General elections were held in the Netherlands Antilles on 1 September 1958. This snap election was held after discussions about changing the Charter for the Kingdom of the Netherlands. Results y Island National People's Party Curaçao 20353 6 Democratic Party Curaçao 18771 5 Aruban Patriotic Party Aruba 9912 5 Catholic People's Party Curaçao 5487 1 Aruban People's Party Aruba 4505 2 Aruban National Union Aruba 2059 1 Bonaire Democratic Party Bonaire 1373 1 Partido Boneriano Uni Bonaire 1138 0 Democratic Party Sint Maarten SSS Islands 904 1 National People's Party–Aruba Aruba 685 0 National People's Party SSS Islands 521 0 Curaçao Population: 124,340 (31 December 1957) Entitled to vote: 49,636 Valid votes: 44,611 Seats: 12 Average valid votes per seat: 3,717.58 # Candidate Total per list Votes Result National People's Party (NVP) / Curaçaoan Independent Party (COP) 1 M.F. da Costa Gomez 20,353 17,448 Elected 2 H.G.M. Pieters Kwiers 90 Elected 3 B.Ph. Römer 36 Elected 4 P. van der Hoeven 1,971 Elected 5 C.E. Dip 70 Elected 6 Ch.E.W. Voges 133 Elected 7 S.D. Abbad 80 - 8 C.E. Cathalina 29 - 9 E.J. van Romondt 159 - 10 A.R. Winklaar 25 - 11 W. de Boer 124 - 12 A.P. Loewenthal 18 - 13 G.E.A. Booi 33 - 14 P.A. Lauffer 6 - 15 Ph.J. Evertsz 23 - 16 E.L.C. van Rosberg 13 - 17 F.R. Brion 55 - Democratic Party (DP) 1 E. Jonckheer 18,771 14,071 Elected 2 C.D. Kroon 757 Elected 3 S.W. van der Meer 90 Elected 4 R.J. Isa 51 Elected 5 C.H.W. Hueck 27 - 6 H.L. Braam 2,352 Elected 7 Mrs. L.C. van der Linde-Helmijr 46 - 8 J.A.O. Bikker 24 - 9 R. Elhage 69 - 10 P.A. van der Veen 32 - 11 D. van der Ree 38 - 12 S.G.M. Rozendal 31 - 13 A.G. de Windt 48 - 14 M.A. Margaretha 34 - 15 C.C. Peterson 1,005 - 16 M.J. Vidal 16 - 17 E.M.H. Agnes 40 - Catholic People's Party (KVP) 1 I.C. Debrot 5,487 3,669 Elected 2 B.M. Leito 108 - 3 J.L. Martina 93 - 4 J.J. Buhre 1,033 - 5 H.M. van Delden 137 - 6 M.J.M. Lichtveld 104 - 7 P. Maduro 12 - 8 V.C. Vinck 75 - 9 H.G. Zimmerman 65 - 10 E.J. Morkos 63 - 11 G.T. Lauff 5 - 12 Miss R.M. Panneflek 20 - 13 W. Rigaud 22 - 14 V.R. Maduro 18 - 15 R.T. Macares 26 - 16 E.C. Albertoe 18 - 17 W.R. Hooi 19 - Aruba Population: 57,213 (31 December 1957) Entitled to vote: 18,642 Valid votes: 17,161 Seats: 8 Average valid votes per seat: 2,145.125 # Candidate Total per list Votes Result Aruban Patriotic Party (PPA) 1 J.E. Irausquin 9,912 3,683 Elected 2 M. Henriquez 346 Elected 3 J. Erasmus 465 Elected 4 O. Croes 112 Elected 5 E.R. Finck 890 Elected 6 W.C. Anslijn 1142 - 7 J.R.L. Beaujon 139 - 8 F. Sebastiano 486 - 9 J. Geerman 592 - 10 E.O. Petronia 518 - 11 J.M. Leonardo 158 - 12 D.C. Mathew 772 - 13 C. Angela 612 - Aruban People's Party (AVP) 1 C.A. Eman 4,505 2946 Elected 2 D.G. Croes 648 Elected 3 M. Croes 176 - 4 L.V. Britten 114 - 5 J.A. Croes 24 - 6 S. Geerman 87 - 7 D. Flemming 109 - 8 M. Arends 13 - 9 J.C. Lampe 59 - 10 A.H. Raven 55 - 11 J.P. Falconi 46 - 12 E.M. Lacle 93 - 13 F. Maduro 142 - UNA 1 A. Werleman 2,059 1087 Elected 2 F.B. Tromp 262 - 3 A.F. Dussenbroek 344 - 4 M.J. Croes 60 - 5 Th.J. Figaroa 148 - 6 R.C. Oduber 19 - 7 L. Wever 30 - 8 Th.D. Luydens 19 - 9 Miss T.F. Palm 28 - 10 Th. Leest 13 - 11 R.E. Frank 16 - 12 I. Croes 6 - 13 C.P. Schwengle 22 - NVP-A 1 M.F. da Costa Gomez 685 225 - 2 D.A. Vlaun 66 - 3 A.W.A. Heidewiller 104 - 4 G. Swart 69 - 5 M.P. Boekhouder 71 - 6 J. Eleonora 18 - 7 W.T. Holman 18 - 8 J. Priest 21 - 9 C.R. Beukenboom 21 - 10 E. Erasmus 10 - 11 F.B. Figaroa 33 - 12 E.M. Bronswinkel 19 - 13 O.A. Hassell 10 - Bonaire Population: 5,663 (31 December 1957) Entitled to vote: 2,623 Valide votes: 2,511 Seats: 1 # Candidate Total per list Votes Result Bonaire Democratic Party (PDB) 1 J.A. Abraham 1,373 ? Elected 2 C.D. Christiaan ? - 3 Miss M.C. Hellmund ? - 4 J.H.R. Herrera ? - 5 A.J.H. Snijder ? - 6 A.A. Emerenciano ? - UNI 1 S.C.G. Soliano 1,138 ? - 2 A.E. Booi ? - 3 Ch.J.A. Beukeboom ? - 4 F.C.A. Chirino ? - 5 E.B. Sint Jago ? - 6 L.D. Gerharts ? - SSS Islands Population: 3,769 (31 December 1957, Sint Maarten: 1,558; Sint Eustatius: 1,087; Saba: 1,124) Valide votes: 1,425 Seats: 1 # Candidate Total per list Votes Result DP 1 H.I. Lopes 904 646 Elected 2 A.C. Wathey 158 - 3 D.C. Mathew 23 - 4 W.C. Anslijn 49 - 5 R.A. Sorton 4 - 6 A. Schmidt 24 - NVP 1 Ch.E.W. Voges 521 404 - 2 H. Hassel 60 - 3 E. Ridson 4 - 4 C. Woodley 13 - 5 C. Peterson 12 - 6 S. Hazel 28 - Aftermath Jonckheer, Kroon, Van der Meer and Irausquin gave up their seats in parliament to become ministers in the Second Jonckheer cabinet. The first three were replaced by Hueck, Van der Linde-Helmijr and Bikker. Abbad was the replacement for Pieters Kwiers. Mid 1959 Leito succeeded Debrot. Abraham died at the end of 1960. References Amigoe di Curaçao, 31 July 1958 Amigoe di Curaçao, 4 August 1958 Amigoe di Curaçao, 2 September 1958 Amigoe di Curaçao, 3 September 1958 Know Your Political History: St. Maarten, Saba, St. Eustatius, by Edgar Lynch & Julian Lynch, Election Watchnite Association, 1990, page 27 expanded Category:Elections in the Netherlands Antilles Netherlands Antilles Category:1958 in the Netherlands Antilles Category:September 1958 in North America