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I would like to bring to the attention that the use of the term "general election" might be confusing and/or misleading to the reader of this article. Up to 1949 there was no universal suffrage. Women in the Netherlands Antilles had no active voting rights (only passive; i.e. to become candidates) and for men these were restricted to persons with a certain minimum income and years of schooling. The electorate that fulfilled these requirements amounted to only about 3 to 5 % of the total population. I recommend to add to the articles on the elections of 1937, 1941, and 1945 that there was no universal suffrage. Caribiana (talk) 13:57, 19 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

The article does state that only 3% of the population was entitled to vote, but you're welcome to expand on that.
Regarding the article title, I don't see how it's confusing/misleading; general elections are names given to parliamentary elections regardless of the franchise – for example the franchise in the 1802 United Kingdom general election was similarly tiny. Number 57 17:38, 19 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]