Country: | Niue |
Type: | parliamentary |
Ongoing: | no |
Election Date: | 7 May 2011 |
Previous Election: | 2008 Niuean general election |
Previous Year: | 2008 |
Next Election: | 2014 Niuean general election |
Next Year: | 2014 |
Seats For Election: | All 20 seats in the Assembly |
Majority Seats: | 10 |
General elections were held in Niue on 7 May 2011, to elect the members of the Niue Assembly. In the leadup to the election Speaker of the Niue Assembly Atapana Siakimotu announced that he would be retiring from politics.[1]
Of the 20 Niue Assembly members, six were elected on a common roll and fourteen in single-member constituencies. There were no political parties in Niue at the time of the election, and all candidates were independents.
The election was managed and controlled by the Chief Electoral Officer, Justin Kamupala, who was also the Secretary of the Niue Department of Justice, Lands and Survey.[2]
There were four changes in membership: Three new members were elected on the common roll, with caretaker PM Toke Talagi topping the vote. The only change in village seats was that Tofua Puletama was ousted from Makefu by Salilo Tongia in a close result.[3]
Constituency | Candidate | Votes | % | Notes | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Alofi North | 62 | 77.50 | Elected | ||
Roz Hipa | 18 | 22.50 | |||
Alofi South | 116 | 60.42 | Elected | ||
Charlie Togahai | 76 | 39.58 | |||
— | — | Elected unopposed | |||
33 | 53.23 | Elected | |||
29 | 46.77 | ||||
13 | 54.17 | Elected | |||
Pamela Togiakona | 11 | 45.83 | |||
Halene Magatogia | — | — | Elected unopposed | ||
— | — | Elected unopposed | |||
Salilo Tongia | 16 | 43.24 | Elected | ||
15 | 40.54 | ||||
Charlie Tohovaka | 6 | 16.22 | |||
34 | 72.34 | Elected | |||
13 | 27.66 | ||||
— | — | Elected unopposed | |||
— | — | Elected unopposed | |||
11 | 61.11 | Elected | |||
Hamouli Kaulima | 4 | 22.22 | |||
Lilivaka Muimatagi | 3 | 16.67 | |||
— | — | Elected unopposed | |||
— | — | Elected unopposed | |||
Source: Niue News 1[4] |
As expected, Talagi was re-elected as PM with 12 of 20 votes.[5]