Country: | New Caledonia |
Previous Election: | 2004 |
Next Election: | 2014 |
Election Date: | 11 May 2014 |
Seats For Election: | All 54 seats in Congress |
Majority Seats: | 27 |
Percentage1: | 20.60 |
Seats1: | 13 |
Last Election1: | 16 |
Party2: | Caledonia Together |
Percentage2: | 16.83 |
Seats2: | 10 |
Last Election2: | New |
Party3: | Caledonian Union |
Percentage3: | 11.65 |
Seats3: | 8 |
Last Election3: | 7 |
Percentage4: | 10.52 |
Seats4: | 8 |
Last Election4: | 8 |
Percentage5: | 10.25 |
Seats5: | 6 |
Last Election5: | 16 |
Party6: | Labour Party (New Caledonia) |
Percentage6: | 7.97 |
Seats6: | 3 |
Last Election6: | new |
Party7: | Kanak and Socialist National Liberation Front |
Percentage7: | 5.53 |
Seats7: | 3 |
Last Election7: | 0 |
Party8: | Rally for Caledonia |
Percentage8: | 4.46 |
Seats8: | 2 |
Last Election8: | new |
Party9: | Kanak Socialist Liberation |
Percentage9: | 1.92 |
Seats9: | 1 |
Last Election9: | 1 |
Map: | Provincial2009.png |
Legislative elections were held in New Caledonia on 10 May 2009.[1] [2] [3] Voters elected 76 members of the three provincial assemblies,[4] of whom 54 were also to become members of the territorial Congress.[4]
The Labour Party, which had been founded in 2007 as the political arm of the pro-independence Union of Kanaky Workers and the Exploited, contested the elections for the first time and hoped to gain 12,000 votes and a seat. Due to splits in the two main parties of the anti-independence front, the Rally–UMP and Future Together (from which Caledonia Together split off in October 2008), the main pro-independence party, the Kanak Socialist National Liberation Front (FLNKS), hoped to become the largest party in the elections.[5]
The newly elected Congress was to decide how to implement the autonomy provisions of the Noumea Accord of 1998.[4] Apart from the island's political future, the economy and New Caledonia's high cost of living were the main issue in the election campaign.[4] [6]