Papua New Guinea PNG General elections 2017 Candidates

Papua New Guinea General elections Dates 2017

General elections Date: 24 June 2017

General elections will be held in Papua New Guinea from 24 June to 8 July 2017.

The writs for the election will be issued on 20 April, while the close of nominations will be on 27 April.

Michael Somare, the first Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea, is retiring at the election. Somare has served continuously since he was first elected to the pre-independence House of Assembly in 1968, an unbroken term of 49 years.

Papua New Guinea General elections Results Live 2017

Results will be declared by 8th July 2017. Meanwhile there has been lot of chaos and confusion at PNG.

Papua New Guinea prime minister Peter O’Neill appealed for calm across the country and said the election would go ahead and any issues were only “administrative”, and not indicative of vote tampering or corruption.
“Papua New Guinea is a great nation, a nation that is changing and evolving, and where our democracy is one of the most stable in the world.” he said.

Electoral system of Papua New Guinea

The National parliament is elected from 111 single-member electorates. 89 of them are open electorates distributed around the country. Additionally, each of the 22 provinces elects 1 regional member, which also takes the title of provincial governor. The candidates are elected using Limited preferential voting, where the voter ranks 3 candidates in the order of preference

Candidates for General elections 2017

The Papua New Guinea Electoral Commission reports in preliminary figures that 3332 candidates have nominated to contest the election, 165 candidates of which are women.

Christian Democratic Party, Coalition for Reform Party, Country Party,Greens.,Indigenous,People's Party,Melanesian Alliance Party,Melanesian Liberal Party,National Alliance Party.

Papua New Guinea General elections Results