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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 .
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 ...
This article lists political parties in New Caledonia. New Caledonia has a number of strong, well-developed political parties because of the use of proportional representation in the island's Congress. The major issue dividing the parties is the question of independence.
0–9. 1934 New Caledonian legislative election; 1945 New Caledonian legislative election; 1946–47 New Caledonian legislative election; 1953 New Caledonian legislative election
A total of 495 candidates contested the elections, representing 19 parties. [3] For the first time, parties were allowed party political broadcasts on radio and television, with time allocated on the basis of seats held in the outgoing Assembly and local government. [3]
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.
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.
Since 1986, the United Nations Committee on Decolonization has included New Caledonia on the United Nations list of non-self-governing territories. [7] The 1987 New Caledonia independence referendum, the first independence referendum, was held the following year on 13 September 1987. However, independence was rejected by a large majority, with ...