General elections took place in
Curaçao on 19 March 2021, two days after the
2021 Dutch general election
General elections were held in the Netherlands from 15 to 17 March 2021 to elect all 150 members of the House of Representatives. Following the elections and lengthy coalition formation talks, the sitting government remained in power.
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Electoral system
The 21 members of the
Estates are elected by
proportional representation
Proportional representation (PR) refers to a type of electoral system under which subgroups of an electorate are reflected proportionately in the elected body. The concept applies mainly to geographical (e.g. states, regions) and political divis ...
. Parties that won at least one seat in the 2017 election were allowed to participate automatically and a primary election was held to determine which non-parliamentary parties could run. In the primary, these parties were required to win the equivalent of 1% of the votes cast in the previous general election in order to participate.
Primary election
In Curaçao, parties with no parliamentary representation must compete in a primary, and must receive an equivalent of at least 1% of the total number of votes present in the prior election (in
2017
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) to participate in the general election. The primary was held on 30 and 31 January. The threshold to advance was 789 votes.
Campaign period
On 7 March, the fourth candidate on the list of the Trabou pa Kòrsou (Work for Curaçao) party,
Almier Godett, was shot and killed while trying to calm a family dispute.
Curaçao politician Almier Godett (38) shot dead
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Results
References
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