1918 Surinamese general election

Partial general elections were held in Suriname in March 1918 to elect four of the thirteen members of the Colonial States.

The elections were held using the two-round system, with suffrage restricted to men who paid a tax contribution of 60 Dutch guilders.^[1] 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 1918 elections were for the four members elected in the 1912 elections. However, all four had since resigned, three of them in 1914; Eduard Zeiler was replaced by Hendrik Salm (who himself subsequently resigned in 1915 and was replaced by Willem Dijckmeester), Samuel Bueno Bibaz by Adolf Nassy and Lucas Lubbertus Beckeringh van Loenen by Pieter Walther Hering. The fourth member, Dirk Olthuis, resigned in 1915 and was replaced by Harry van Ommeren.

Of the four incumbents, Dijckmeester, Hering and van Ommeren ran for re-election, while Nassy did not.

As there were 440 valid votes, candidates required 221 to be elected in the first round.

Jacques Arnold Jessurun (elected in 1914) resigned later in 1918 and was replaced by Simon Daniël de Vries.

Willem Dijckmeester also resigned in 1918 and was replaced by Thomas Waller.

Hubert van Asch van Wijck (elected in 1916) resigned in 1919 and was replaced by Derk Siewert Huizinga.