2010 Curaçao general election

Island Council elections were held in Curaçao on 27 August 2010. Early elections were necessary because the island council failed to approve a proposed new constitution with a two-thirds majority in the first reading. Before it could be adopted by a simple majority in the second reading, the Charter for the Kingdom of the Netherlands specified that a general election had to be held.

Although the elections were held for the island council of Curaçao, its newly elected members automatically became members of the Parliament of Curaçao when Curaçao became a constituent country within the Kingdom of the Netherlands on 10 October 2010.

Results

Although the Party for the Restructured Antilles increased its number of seats from 7 to 8, the coalition it led lost its majority. Gerrit Schotte of the Movementu Futuro Korsou (MFK) formed a coalition with Movishon Antia Nobo (MAN) and Pueblo Soberano (PS) and thus became Curaçao's first Prime Minister on 10 October 2010.

Party		Votes	%	Seats	+/–
	Party for the Restructured Antilles	22,474	30.23	8	+1
	Movement for the Future of Curaçao	15,953	21.46	5	New
	Sovereign People	13,886	18.68	4	+3
	Partido MAN	6,531	8.79	2	–3
	Workers' Liberation Front	4,813	6.47	1	–1
	National People's Party	4,588	6.17	1	–1
	Democratic Party	3,048	4.10	0	–1
	Partido pa Adelanto I Inovashon Soshal	2,202	2.96	0	New
	People's Crusade Labour Party	509	0.68	0	0
	Lista Niun Paso Atras	336	0.45	0	–2
Total		74,340	100.00	21	0
Valid votes		74,340	98.37
Invalid/blank votes		1,231	1.63
Total votes		75,571	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		114,828	65.81
Source: KSE