The Windward Islands People's Movement (WIPM) is a political party in Saba. It has won a majority of seats in the Island Council in all but two elections since 1971.
It held all five seats in the Island Council after the 2019 elections and until June 1, 2022, when council member Hemmie Van Xanten resigned from the party while continuing to serve as a councilor. When party member Esmeralda Johnson was elected to a seat on the island council in 2019, she became the youngest person ever to serve on it.
Netherlands Antilles Until the dissolution of the Netherlands Antilles, the party competed in island council elections and for the single Saba seat in the Estates of the Netherlands Antilles (which it won in the 2002, 2006 and 2010 elections). The party has also participated in the island council elections of Sint Eustatius and Sint Maarten (until its merger with the Sint Maarten Patriotic Movement (S.P.M.)).
When Saba became part of the Netherlands as a special municipality in 2010, the 2007 island council stayed (where the party obtained four of the five seats) until the election under Dutch law in 2011.
Island Council electoral results Election Votes % Seats +/– Government 1971 1975 421 73.09 1 1979 483 81.04 1 1983 470 77.43 1 1987 328 51.01 2 1991 437 71.99 2 1995 346 54.75 2 1999 400 70.67 2 2003 298 47.30 1 2007 447 73.8 1 2011 686 83.4 0 2015 545 57.2 1 2019 777 79.04 2 2023 617 59.33 2
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