2025 Surinamese general election

Among the major campaign issues was the management of potential revenues from recently discovered oil deposits, with National Democratic Party (NDP) leader Jennifer Geerlings-Simons pledging to require "all enterprises to work with Surinamese and buy Suriname products" as part of efforts to ensure access by the population to benefits from oil revenues.^[6] Incumbent president Chan Santokhi, of the Progressive Reform Party (VHP), pledged to maintain Suriname's status as a carbon-negative country and use some of the oil revenues in the transition towards a green economy and related projects, noting that the reserves would be exhausted in 40 years. He also pledged to use the revenues for cash handouts under the "Royalties for Everyone" program.^[7]

Initial results showed that no party obtained a majority in the National Assembly, with the NDP winning 18 seats followed by the ruling VHP at 17. The remaining 16 seats were won by smaller parties. Turnout was estimated to be at least 58%.^[8] On 27 May, the NDP announced that it had finalized a coalition agreement with the General Liberation and Development Party, the National Party of Suriname, Pertjajah Luhur, Alternative 2020 and the Brotherhood and Unity in Politics. The coalition had enough votes to elect Jennifer Geerlings-Simons as Suriname's first female president. Between them, the parties in the NDP-led coalition have 34 seats, exactly the two-thirds supermajority required to elect a president without the need for support from other parties.^[9]

On 3 July, the VHP said that it would not put forward a candidate against Geerlings-Simons. At the time, she had been the only person to lodge her candidacy.^[10] As expected, Geerlings-Simons was elected unopposed as president on 6 with NPS leader Gregory Rusland as vice president.^[11]

Party		Votes	%	Seats	+/–
	National Democratic Party	93,459	34.18	18	+2
	Progressive Reform Party	86,912	31.78	17	−3
	General Liberation and Development Party	31,798	11.63	6	−2
	National Party of Suriname	31,215	11.42	6	+3
	Pertjajah Luhur	10,300	3.77	2	0
	Alternative 2020	7,461	2.73	1	+1
	Brotherhood and Unity in Politics	7,128	2.61	1	−1
	Option for Suriname [nl]	1,634	0.60	0	0
	Democratic Alternative '91	1,537	0.56	0	0
	The New Lion [nl]	649	0.24	0	0
	Arena Political Party [nl]	517	0.19	0	0
	People's Party for a Livable Suriname [nl]	339	0.12	0	New
	Democratic Union of Suriname [nl]	335	0.12	0	0
	Party of Communication [nl]	160	0.06	0	New
Total		273,444	100.00	51	0
Valid votes		273,444	98.57
Invalid/blank votes		3,961	1.43
Total votes		277,405	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		399,932	69.36
Source: Centraal Hoofdstembureau