General elections were held in the
Territory of Curaçao on 20 December 1937. Ten of the fifteen seats in the
Estates of Curaçao
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were elected, with the remaining five appointed by the governor
G.J.J. Wouters. The ten elected seats consisted of six for
Curaçao
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, two for
Aruba
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, one for
Bonaire
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and one for the
SSS Islands
From 1833 there was a Colonial Council ('Koloniale Raad') whose members were not elected. The council was replaced in April 1938 by the Estates of Curaçao. From a population of 90,870 (December 1936) only 2,754 men, about 3% of the population, were entitled to vote in the elections.
The new session of the Estates started on the first Tuesday of April 1938.
Curaçao
Population: 58,233 (31 December 1936)
Entitled to vote: 2,030
Valid votes: 1,549
Invalide votes: 116
Lists of candidates:
* Curaçaoan Roman Catholic Party (CRKP)
* Curaçaoan Political Union (CPU)
* CSM pilots
Aruba
Population: 21,638 (31 December 1936)
Entitled to vote: 553
Valid votes: 381
Bonaire
Population: 5,827 (31 December 1936)
Entitled to vote: 31
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John Aniceto de Jongh
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(only candidate and therefore automatically elected)
SSS Islands
Entitled to vote: 140
Valid votes: 107
Appointed by the governor
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Frederik Philip Bichon van IJsselmonde
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Salomon Alfred Senior
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José Maria Pedro Kroon
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John Horris Sprockel
John Horris Sprockel (9 August 1892 – 8 April 1970) was politician of the Netherlands Antilles.
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Carel Nicolaas Winkel
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In 1940 Bichon van IJsselmonde was succeeded by
Frederik Augustus Vromans.
Aftermath
Although a vast majority of the population was catholic, in the last Colonial Council only 4 of the 13 members were catholic. In the new Estates 8 out of the 15 members were catholic.
Sprockel did not receive enough votes to be elected but was soon after the elections appointed by the governor to be a member of the Estates. Originally
Jossy Cohen Henriquez Jossy is a given name. Notable people with the name include:
* Jossy Dombraye, Nigerian footballer and manager
* Jossy Mansur (1934–2016), Aruban newspaper editor
See also
* Josey
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