Country: | Kiribati |
Type: | presidential |
Previous Election: | July 2003 Kiribati presidential election |
Next Election: | 2012 Kiribati presidential election |
Next Year: | 2012 |
Election Date: | 17 October 2007 |
Turnout: | 56.98% |
Image1: | File:Anote Tong (cropped).jpg |
Popular Vote1: | 15,664 |
Percentage1: | 64.29% |
Popular Vote2: | 8,149 |
Percentage2: | 33.44% |
President | |
Before Election: | Anote Tong |
After Election: | Anote Tong |
Candidate1: | Anote Tong |
Candidate2: | Nabuti Mwemwenikarawa |
1Data1: | Tabuaeran |
Party1: | Pillars of Truth |
Party2: | Independent |
Presidential elections were held in Kiribati on 17 October 2007,[1] following the 2007 parliamentary election. President Anote Tong, who was re-elected to parliament in the first round of the parliamentary election, sought another term as president.[2] At the first parliamentary session,[1] four candidates were chosen to appear on the ballot: Anote Tong, Patrick Tatireta, Timon Aneri, and Nabuti Mwemwenikarawa. Opposition nominees Harry Tong (Anote Tong's brother) and Tetaua Taitai were excluded from the ballot,[3] upon which the opposition called for a boycott of the election.[4]
Consequently, voter turnout was just above 50%. Tong received more than 15,500 votes, Mwemwenikarawa received over 8,000 votes, and Tatireta and Anera received less than 400 votes each.[4]