Legislative elections were held in New Caledonia on 11 September 1977.[1] Anti-autonomy parties won 19 of the 35 seats.[2]
A total of 495 candidates contested the elections, representing 19 parties.[3] For the first time, parties were allowed party political broadcasts on radio and television, with time allocated on the basis of seats held in the outgoing Assembly and local government.[3] The campaign was described by Pacific Islands Monthly as "exceptionally savage".[3]
Women were elected to the Assembly for the first time,[3] with Marie-Paule Serve and Edwige Antier winning seats.[1] Of the 35 elected members, 22 were new to the Assembly.[3]
Anti-autonomy parties (Rally for Caledonia, the Caledonian Liberal Movement, the New Caledonian Union, the Union for Caledonian Renewal, the All Ethnicity Union and the Democratic Union) won 19 seats; pro-independence parties (the Caledonian Union, the Party of Kanak Liberation and the United Front of Kanak Liberation) won 12 seats, with the remaining four held by pro-autonomy parties (the Caledonian Socialist Party and the Melanesian Progressive Union).[2]
| Constituency | Member | Party | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| East (7 seats) | Stanley Camerlynck | New Caledonian Union | ||
| Yves de Villelongue | Rally for Caledonia | |||
| André Gopea | Melanesian Progressive Union | Re-elected (previously UM) | ||
| Éloi Machoro | Caledonian Union | |||
| Auguste Parawi-Reybas | Rally for Caledonia | |||
| Daniel Poigoune | Party of Kanak Liberation | |||
| Jean-Marie Tjibaou | Caledonian Union | |||
| Islands (5 seats) | Nidoïsh Naisseline | Party of Kanak Liberation | ||
| Dick Ukeiwé | Rally for Caledonia | Re-elected (previously UD in South) | ||
| Yann Céléné Uregeï | United Front of Kanak Liberation | Re-elected (previously UM) | ||
| Édouard Wapaé | Caledonian Union | |||
| Yeiwéné Yeiwéné | Caledonian Union | |||
| South (16 seats) | Edwige Antier | Union for the Renewal of New Caledonia | ||
| Alain Bernut | Caledonian Socialist Party | Re-elected (previously MPC) | ||
| Victorin Boewa | Rally for Caledonia | |||
| Jacques Bouttin | Rally for Caledonia | |||
| Pierre Declercq | Caledonian Union | |||
| Pierre Frogier | Rally for Caledonia | |||
| Max Frouin | Caledonian Liberal Movement | Re-elected | ||
| Claude Fournier | Caledonian Socialist Party | Re-elected (previously MPC) | ||
| Roger Laroque | Rally for Caledonia | Re-elected (previously EDS) | ||
| Jean Lèques | Caledonian Liberal Movement | Re-elected | ||
| Petelo Manuofiua | Rally for Caledonia | |||
| Jacques Mouren | Rally for Caledonia | |||
| Raymond Mura | All Ethnicities' Agreement | |||
| Rock Pidjot | Caledonian Union | Re-elected | ||
| Marie-Paule Serve | Rally for Caledonia | |||
| Jacques Violette | Caledonian Socialist Party | |||
| West (7 seats) | Jean-Pierre Aïfa | New Caledonian Union | Re-elected (previously in UC) | |
| François Burck | Caledonian Union | |||
| Jean Delouvrier | Rally for Caledonia | |||
| Maurice Lenormand | Caledonian Union | Re-elected (previously in South) | ||
| Gaston Morlet | Democratic Union | |||
| Gabriel Païta | Caledonian Union | Re-elected | ||
| Joseph Tidjine | Rally for Caledonia | Re-elected (previously UD) | ||
| Source: Congress | ||||