Partial general elections were held in Suriname in March, April and May 1922 to elect five of the thirteen members of the Colonial States.
Electoral system The elections were held using the two-round system, with suffrage restricted to men who paid a tax contribution of 60 Dutch guilders. Voters had multiple votes, and any candidate receiving a number of votes equivalent to over 50% of the valid ballots cast was elected in the first round. If not all seats were filled, a second round was held.
Candidates were elected for a six-year term with staggered elections every two years and the 1922 elections were for the five members elected in the 1916 elections. However, only one of them – – was still in office; had resigned in 1919 and been replaced by , and both resigned in 1920 and had been replaced by and (Westra also subsequently resigned and was replaced by ), and had resigned in 1921 and been replaced by .
Of the five incumbents, three (Huizinga, Leys and Putscher) ran for re-election, while Simons returned to politics to run again.
Results As there were 1,051 valid votes, candidates required 526 to be elected in the first round. Only four candidates passed the threshold, with a second round required to be held between the next two most voted-for candidates.
All incumbents lost their seats, the first time no incumbent member had retained their seat in Surinamese electoral history.
Aftermath (elected in 1918) died in 1923 and was replaced by Jacques Drielsma, who was declared elected unopposed.
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