1991 Vanuatuan general election
Vanuatu
2 December 1991

All 46 seats in Parliament
23 seats needed for a majority
Turnout71.33%
PartyLeader % Seats +/–
UMP Maxime Carlot Korman 30.58 19 0
Vanua'aku Pati Donald Kalpokas 22.61 10 −16
National United Walter Lini 20.38 10 New
Melanesian Progressive Barak Sopé 15.38 4 New
Tan Union 4.59 1 New
Nagriamel Jimmy Stevens 2.93 1 +1
Friend Melanesian 1.86 1 0
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
Prime Minister before Prime Minister after
Walter Lini
Vanua'aku
Maxime Carlot Korman
Union of Moderate Parties

General elections were held in Vanuatu on 2 December 1991. Ni-Vanuatu voters were invited to elect the 46 members of the national Parliament.

At the time of the elections, Walter Lini of the Vanua'aku Pati had been Prime Minister for eleven years and the country's only leader since independence in 1980. Several months before the elections, he was replaced by Donald Kalpokas as leader of the Vanua'aku Pati, and formed his own National United Party.

Seven parties contested the election. The Union of Moderate Parties obtained 19 seats, the same number as during the previous election, but this time these were sufficient to place it in the lead. The Vanua'aku Pati and the National United Party obtained ten seats each, marking the VP's first electoral defeat.

With no absolute majority, the Union of Moderate Parties formed a ruling coalition with the NUP. Maxime Carlot Korman (UMP) became Vanuatu's first francophone Prime Minister, with NUP co-founder Sethy Regenvanu as deputy Prime Minister.[1] Voter turnout was 71%.[2]

The result was significant, as Vanuatu's previous post-independence governments had been oriented towards the Anglophone population.[3] Prior to the 1991 elections, only ten percent of the Vanuatu administration was Francophone and no cabinet members had been Francophone since independence.[3] Vanuatu's foreign policy had also been hostile to France.[3]

Electoral system

Most members were elected by single non-transferable vote in multi-seat districts having two to six members each. Four members were elected through first-past-the-post voting in single-member constituencies.

Results

PartyVotes%Seats+/–
Union of Moderate Parties19,01630.58190
Vanua'aku Pati14,05822.6110–16
National United Party12,67220.3810New
Melanesian Progressive Party9,56215.384New
Tan Union2,8524.591New
Nagriamel1,8222.931+1
Friend Melanesian Party1,1571.8610
New People's Party5880.9500
Vanuatu Independent Francophone770.120New
Independents3770.6100
Total62,181100.00460
Valid votes62,18199.40
Invalid/blank votes3750.60
Total votes62,556100.00
Registered voters/turnout87,69571.33
Source: Nohlen et al.

See also

References

  1. MILES, William F.S., Bridging Mental Boundaries in a Postcolonial Microcosm: Identity and Development in Vanuatu, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1998, ISBN 0-8248-2048-7, p.25
  2. Dieter Nohlen, Florian Grotz & Christof Hartmann (2001) Elections in Asia: A data handbook, Volume II, p842 ISBN 0-19-924959-8
  3. 1 2 3 Premdas, Ralph R.; Steeves, Jeffrey S. (1994). "Vanuatu: The politics of Anglo‐French cooperation in the post‐Lini era". The Journal of Commonwealth & Comparative Politics. 32 (1): 68–86. doi:10.1080/14662049408447674. ISSN 0306-3631.
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