Island council elections were held in the
Caribbean Netherlands
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on 2 March 2011 to elect the members of the
island councils of
Bonaire
Bonaire (; , ; pap, Boneiru, , almost pronounced ) is a Dutch island in the Leeward Antilles in the Caribbean Sea. Its capital is the port of Kralendijk, on the west ( leeward) coast of the island. Aruba, Bonaire and Curaçao form the ABC i ...
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Saba Saba may refer to:
Places
* Saba (island), an island of the Netherlands located in the Caribbean Sea
* Şaba (Romanian for Shabo), a town of the Odesa Oblast, Ukraine
* Sabá, a municipality in the department of Colón, Honduras
* Saba (river), ...
and
Sint Eustatius
Sint Eustatius (, ), also known locally as Statia (), is an island in the Caribbean. It is a special municipality (officially " public body") of the Netherlands.
The island lies in the northern Leeward Islands portion of the West Indies, so ...
. They were the first island council elections since the
dissolution of the Netherlands Antilles
The Netherlands Antilles was an autonomous Caribbean country within the Kingdom of the Netherlands. It was dissolved on 10 October 2010.
After dissolution, the "BES islands" of the Dutch Caribbean—Bonaire, Sint Eustatius, and Saba—became th ...
in 2010.
The elections were held on the same day as the
provincial elections in the
European Netherlands
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. The election was won by the
Bonaire Patriotic Union
The Bonaire Patriotic Union ( pap, Union Patriótiko Boneriano, label= Papiamentu, UPB; nl, Patriottische Unie van Bonaire) is a Dutch local political party in the special municipality of Bonaire.
History
In the 2002 Netherlands Antilles gene ...
(4 seats) in Bonaire, the
Windward Islands People's Movement
The Windward Islands People's Movement (WIPM) is a political party in Saba, which held all five seats in the Island Council after the 2019 elections and until June 1, 2022, when council member Hemmie Van Xanten resigned from the party while contin ...
(4 seats) in Saba, and the
Democratic Party Democratic Party most often refers to:
*Democratic Party (United States)
Democratic Party and similar terms may also refer to:
Active parties Africa
*Botswana Democratic Party
*Democratic Party of Equatorial Guinea
*Gabonese Democratic Party
*Demo ...
(2 seats) in Sint Eustatius.
Results
Bonaire
Saba
Sint Eustatius
References
{{Dutch elections
Dutch
Dutch commonly refers to:
* Something of, from, or related to the Netherlands
* Dutch people ()
* Dutch language ()
Dutch may also refer to:
Places
* Dutch, West Virginia, a community in the United States
* Pennsylvania Dutch Country
People E ...
Island council
March 2011 events in North America
2011 in Bonaire
Elections in Bonaire
Elections in Saba (island)
Elections in Sint Eustatius