The Democratic Party (DP, ) is a

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Sint Eustatius Sint Eustatius, known locally as Statia, is an island in the Caribbean. It is a Caribbean Netherlands, special municipality (officially "Public body (Netherlands), public body") of the Netherlands. The island is in the northern Leeward Islands ...

with two seats in the 5-seat island council. In

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, the party obtained 2 seats in the first elections after Sint Eustatius became part of the Netherlands upon the

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in 2011. However, their Island Council representative Reuben Merkman left the DP in 2014 and became an independent council member.

Netherlands Antilles

Until the

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

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(uncontested) and

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elections). When Sint Eustatius became part of the Netherlands in 2010, the 2007 island council (where the party obtained four of the five seats) stayed until the elections under Dutch law in 2011.

References

Political parties in Sint Eustatius Christian Democratic Appeal {{SintEustatius-stub