Falkland Islands general election, 2017

The Falkland Islands general election of 2017 is scheduled to be held on Thursday 9 November 2017 and will elect all eight members of the Legislative Assembly (five from the Stanley constituency and three from the Camp constituency) through universal suffrage using block voting, with the Chief Executive of the Falkland Islands acting as returning officer. It will be the third election since the new Constitution came into force replacing the Legislative Council (which had existed since 1845) with the Legislative Assembly.

Under the Constitution of the Falkland Islands, the Legislative Assembly must be dissolved by the Governor four years after the first meeting of the Legislative Assembly following the last election (unless the Executive Council advises the Governor to dissolve the Legislative Assembly sooner). An election must then take place within 70 days of the dissolution.

The first meeting of the current Legislative Assembly took place on 11 November 2013, meaning the Legislative Assembly must be dissolved by midnight on 10 November 2017 and an election must take place before 19 January 2018.

However, in August 2017 the Legislative Assembly announced that an early general election was being planned for 9 November 2017, with the proposed closing date for voter registration and applications for postal and proxy votes being noon FKST on 19 October 2017 and the proposed deadline for nomination as a candidate in the election set for 16:15 FKST on 20 October 2017.

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