[1] The 21 members of the Estates are elected by proportional representation.

[2] Parties that won at least one seat in the 2017 election were allowed to participate automatically and a primary election was held to determine which non-parliamentary parties could run.

In the primary, these parties were required to win the equivalent of 1% of the votes cast in the previous general election in order to participate.

In Curaçao, parties with no parliamentary representation must compete in a primary, and must receive an equivalent of at least 1% of the total number of votes present in the prior election (in 2017) to participate in the general election.

On 7 March, the fourth candidate on the list of Work for Curaçao, Almier Godett, was shot and killed while trying to calm a family dispute.