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New Caledonia elects a legislature. The Territorial Congress ( Congrès Territorial ) has 54 members, being the members of the three regional councils, all elected for a five-year term by proportional representation .
The 1st constituency of New Caledonia is a French legislative constituency in New Caledonia. Between 1958 and 1962, the constituency represented all of the New Hebrides condominium and New Caledonia until a redistricting in 1978 created the 2nd constituency .
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Legislative elections were held in New Caledonia on 10 September 1972. They had originally been scheduled for July, but were postponed by the French government. [1] Anti-autonomist parties won 18 of the 35 seats, with the previously dominant Caledonian Union reduced from the 22 seats it won in 1967 to only 12.
Prior to the elections the 25-seat General Council was replaced by a 30-seat Territorial Assembly.The new body was elected by open list proportional representation. [2]The elections were held under universal suffrage, with around 33,600 registered voters, [1] of which 18,964 were Kanaks and 13,406 Europeans.
A 2015 documentary by Al Jazeera English asserted that up to 10% [dubious – discuss] of New Caledonia's population is descended from around 2,000 Arab-Berber people deported from French Algeria in the late 19th century to prisons on the island in reprisal for the Mokrani Revolt in 1871. After serving their sentences, they were released and ...
A 10% electoral threshold was introduced for the elections, which was reported by Pacific Islands Monthly to mainly affect the prospects of indigenous and pro-independence parties. [2] As a result, the pro-independence Caledonian Union , Caledonian Socialist Party , Melanesian Progressive Union , Party of Kanak Liberation and United Front of ...
Legislative elections were held in New Caledonia on 12 May 2019 to elect members of the Congress of New Caledonia and members of the provincial assemblies.. Anti-independence parties retained their majority in Congress, with the centre-right, liberal conservative Future with Confidence party winning a plurality of seats in Congress.