1949 Surinamese general election information

General elections were held in Surinam on 30 May 1949. The result was a victory for the National Party of Suriname, which won 13 of the 21 seats. Voter...

surgical exam, and started to work as a physician. At the 1949 Surinamese general election he was elected for the Marowijne District. Major conflicts...

General elections were held in Surinam on 14 March 1951. The result was a victory for the National Party of Suriname, which won 13 of the 21 seats. National...

Party). That party merged early 1949 into the Verenigde Hindostaanse Partij  (VHP). At the 1949 Surinamese general election he was elected as VHP-candidate...

'Prijszetting'. Eventually he made it there to section head. At the 1949 Surinamese general election he was elected as VHP-candidate to become a member of the Estates...

creating a Chinese Surinamese population. From 1873 to 1916, many laborers were imported from India, creating the Indo-Surinamese. After 1916, many laborers...

by-election on May 1, 1947. Just like David Findlay, he combined being a member of the parliament with working as a journalist. At the 1949 Surinamese general...

coalition governments. Suriname held general elections in 1928, 1930, 1932, 1934, 1936, 1938, 1942, 1946, 1949, 1951, 1955, 1958, 1963, 1967, 1969, 1973...

'Hindu Party' that merged in 1949 into the VHP of which he became the treasurer. At the 1951 Surinamese general election the two seats of the Estates...

party tends to be more popular among Afro-Surinamese and multiracial people. At the 2005 legislative elections, the party was part of the New Front for...

Hulme, New Zealand race car driver (d. 1992) 1936 – Ronald Venetiaan, Surinamese politician, 6th President of Suriname 1937 – Del Harris, American basketball...

Martin. Also in 1949, Burnham became the leader of the British Guiana Labour Party (BGLP), which had been formed in 1946. In the 1947 elections the Labour...

1962) was a Dutch-Surinamese Catholic priest, politician and union leader. He is one of the founders of the Progressive Surinamese People's Party (PSV)...

during the election campaign. The Den Uyl government in The Hague now had a willing partner in Paramaribo to realise its plans for Surinamese independence...

3% other European, 2.4% Turkish, 2.4% Moroccan, 2.0% Indonesian, 2.0% Surinamese, and 8.1% others. Some 150,000 to 200,000 people living in the Netherlands...

October 2001) was a Surinamese politician. He was one of the founders of the Progressive Reform Party (VHP), an Indo-Surinamese party founded in 1947...

Slovakia will first open an honorary consulate in the city.  Suriname: Surinamese Foreign Minister Albert Ramdin announced in 2022 that Suriname intends...

Turks increased due to family reunification arrangements. A number of Surinamese Muslims came to the Netherlands before and after the independence of Suriname...

and tend to crops in the former Dutch colonies.[citation needed] Indo-Surinamese are nationals of Suriname of Indian or other South Asian ancestry. After...

for 1996 and 2000, and FIFA World Cup, 1990, 1994 and 1998; Winter is of mixed blood and his paternal grandfather, Zhang Junqiang, is Surinamese Hakka...

the armed forces, João Bernardo Vieira, overthrew the government. 1980 Surinamese coup d'état (also known as the Sergeants' Coup): A group of military officers...

cast member Val Dufour (1927-2000), soap opera actor Jesse Duplantis (born 1949), Evangelical Charismatic Christian minister Leigh Hennessy, film stunt performer...

resigned after RTL 4 reported that she had been a member of a militia of Surinamese military dictator Dési Bouterse in 1982 and 1983. This was during the...

increasingly voted Democratic in recent presidential elections, following the trend for Asian Americans in general, excluding the Vietnamese Americans. Polling...

Lodewijk 'Lou' Lichtveld (7 November 1903 – 10 July 1996) was a Surinamese politician, playwright, poet and resistance fighter who wrote under the pseudonym...

resulting in the worst nuclear power plant accident in history. July 22: the Surinamese Interior War occurs. October 11–12: Reykjavik Summit: a breakthrough in...

distributes leaflets" (The Asahi Shimbun Tokyo Headquarters / Niigata General Bureau) Sandok, Mary (20 November 1990). "Bank Executive Escapes Kidnapper;...

conditions in the U.S. and due to a repressive political climate back home. In 1949, the Chinese Communist Party took control of mainland China, and 2 million...