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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 Rally (New Caledonia) Le Rassemblement: Rassemblement-LR Conservative, anti-independence Caledonia Together Caledonie Ensemble: CE Liberal, anti-independence Caledonian Republicans Les Républicains calédoniens: LRC Liberal, anti-independence Caledonian People's Movement Mouvement Populaire Calédonien: MPC Conservative, anti-independence ...
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.
New Caledonia sends two representatives to the French National Assembly and two senators to the French Senate. The representative of the French central state in New Caledonia is the High Commissioner of the Republic ( Haut-Commissaire de la République , locally known as " haussaire "), who is the head of civil services, and who sits in the ...
Although women had recently been enfranchised in France, the lack of time to prepare a new voter roll meant that female suffrage was not introduced for the 1945 elections in New Caledonia. Despite not being able to vote, women were allowed to run as candidates, and two were nominated by the Social Progress bloc. [1]
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.
0–9. 1934 New Caledonian legislative election; 1945 New Caledonian legislative election; 1946–47 New Caledonian legislative election; 1953 New Caledonian legislative election
Following the elections, Entente leader Henri Lafleur submitted a petition to annul the results. The petition was rejected on 28 August. He appealed on 4 November. [4] Rock Pidjot also filed a complaint about the election in East constituency, where Caledonian Union candidate and High Chief Goa Alphonse (who was expected to be elected) lost after a fortune teller told his tribe that the chief ...