2014 Tongan general election

2014 Tongan general election

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17 of the 26 seats in the Legislative Assembly
  First party
 
Leader ʻAkilisi Pōhiva
Party DPFI
Last election 28.49%, 12 seats
Seats won 9
Seat change Decrease 3
Popular vote 13,548
Percentage 33.34%
Swing Increase 4.85pp

Results by constituency

Prime Minister before election

Sialeʻataongo Tuʻivakanō
Independent

Subsequent Prime Minister

ʻAkilisi Pōhiva
DPFI

General elections were held in Tonga on 27 November 2014.[1] All twenty-six elected seats in the single-chamber Legislative Assembly were up for election, although the monarch, acting on the advice of his Prime Minister, retains the possibility to appoint members to Cabinet from outside Parliament, thus granting them a non-elected ex officio seat in Parliament.

They were the second elections carried out under the May 2010 electoral law, which provided that a majority of Assembly members should be elected by the people, rather than the people and the nobility having equal representation.[2] The November 2010 general election was the first held under this new democratic principle; it was also the first to produce a Parliament empowered to give binding advice to the King as to the appointment of a Prime Minister.[2]