2012 Vanuatuan general election

2012 Vanuatuan general election
Vanuatu
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All 52 seats in Parliament
Party Leader Vote % Seats +/–
UMP Serge Vohor 12.19 5 −2
Vanua'aku Pati Edward Natapei 11.29 8 −3
People's Progressive Sato Kilman 8.01 6 +2
National United Ham Lin̄i 6.20 4 −4
Land & Justice Ralph Regenvanu 6.02 4 New
RMC Paul Telukluk 5.75 3 New
Nagriamel 4.23 3 +2
Iauko Harry Iauko 3.68 3 New
Green Confederation Moana Carcasses Kalosil 3.51 3 +1
Republican Marcellino Pipite 3.01 1 New
Melanesian Progressive Barak Sopé 2.81 2 +1
Liberal Democratic 2.48 1 New
National [fr] 1.62 1 0
Natatok 1.59 2 New
People's Services 0.77 1 New
Progressive Development 0.53 1 New
Independents 14.51 4 0
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
Prime Minister before Subsequent Prime Minister
Sato Kilman
People's Progressive
Moana Carcasses Kalosil
Green Confederation

General elections were held in Vanuatu on 30 October 2012.[1] The previous elections to the 52-member Parliament of Vanuatu were held in 2008. The largest parties in this election were the socialist Vanua'aku Party, which won 11 seats, and the social-democratic National United Party (8 seats). Thirteen other parties as well as four independents won parliamentary seats. As a result, Edward Natapei of the Vanua'aku Party was able to become the Prime Minister. Since then, both Serge Vohor of the conservative Union of Moderate Parties and Sato Kilman of the People's Progressive Party have held that position, with Kilman being the incumbent Prime Minister of Vanuatu at the time of the 2012 election.