The Windward Islands People's Movement (WIPM) is a

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. It has won a majority of seats in the Island Council in all but two elections since 1971. It held all five seats in the Island Council after the

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and until June 1, 2022, when council member Hemmie Van Xanten resigned from the party while continuing to serve as a councilor. When party member Esmeralda Johnson was elected to a seat on the island council in 2019, she became the youngest person ever to serve on it.

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Until the

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, the party competed in island council elections and for the single Saba seat in the Estates of the Netherlands Antilles (which it won in the 2002,

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and

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elections). The party has also participated in the island council elections of Sint Eustatius and Sint Maarten (until its merger with the Sint Maarten Patriotic Movement (S.P.M.)). When Saba became part of the Netherlands as a special municipality in 2010, the 2007 island council stayed (where the party obtained four of the five seats) until the election under Dutch law in 2011.

Island Council electoral results

References

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