Vanuatuan general election, 2012

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30 October 2012 (2012-10-30)

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All 52 seats to the Parliament

	First party	Second party	Third party

Leader	Edward Natapei	Sato Kilman	Serge Vohor
Party	VP	PPP	UMP
Last election	11	4	7
Seats won	8	6	5
Seat change	3	2	2
Popular vote	13,593	9,462	14,675
Percentage	11.29	8.01	12.19%
Swing	12.94	3.09	1.07%

Prime Minister before election

Sato Kilman
People's Progress Party

Subsequent Prime Minister

Moana Carcasses Kalosil
GC

Sato Kilman
People's Progress Party

Moana Carcasses Kalosil
GC

General elections were held in Vanuatu on 30 October 2012. 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 Progress Party have held that position, with Kilman being the incumbent Prime Minister of Vanuatu at the time of the 2012 election.

The 52 members of Parliament will be elected in 17 multi-member constituencies, using the single non-transferable vote.

Candidates had to be at least 25 years old, and could not have an undischarged prison sentence or bankruptcy. They also required the support of at least five registered voters in their constituency, and had to put down a non-refundable 50,000 vatu deposit. The President, judges, magistrates, civil servants, police officers, teachers and members of the National Council of Chiefs were all ineligible for election to Parliament.

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