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General elections were held in
Papua New Guinea Papua New Guinea, officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, is an island country in Oceania that comprises the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and offshore islands in Melanesia, a region of the southwestern Pacific Ocean n ...
between 13 June and 4 July 1987. The
Pangu Party The Pangu Pati (Pangu Party), officially Papua na Niugini Yunion Pati (), is a nationalist and developmentalist political party in Papua New Guinea. The party is the oldest political party in Papua New Guinea and has held all levels of government ...
emerged as the largest party, winning 26 of the 109 seats. Voter turnout was 73.5%.


Results

None of the eighteen female candidates were elected, leading to the first all-male National Parliament in Papua New Guinea's history. Following the elections, all 22 elected independents joined parties, while two National Party MPs defected; the People's Democratic Movement (PDM) gained nine MPs, the
People's Action Party The People's Action Party (PAP) is a major Conservatism, conservative political party in Singapore and is the governing contemporary political party represented in the Parliament of Singapore, followed by the opposition Workers' Party of Singap ...
eight, the
People's Progress Party The People's Progress Party is a political party in Papua New Guinea. It was founded on 11 November 1969 by Julius Chan and Warren Dutton, forming a caucus of eleven members of the House of Assembly of Papua and New Guinea. Following indepe ...
(PPP) five, and the Pangu Party and United Party one. The three vacant seats were later won by the National Party, PDM and PPP.Yaw Saff
Papua New Guinea in 1987: Wingti's Coalition in a Disabled System
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Aftermath

The newly elected Parliament met on 5 August to elect the Prime Minister. Incumbent Prime Minister
Paias Wingti Paias Wingti (born 2 February 1951) is a Papua New Guinean politician. He served as the third Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea, prime minister of Papua New Guinea between 1985 and 1988, and again from 1992 to 1994. Early life and education Win ...
defeated former Prime Minister
Michael Somare Sir Michael Thomas Somare (9 April 1936 – 25 February 2021) was a Papua New Guinean politician. Widely called the " father of the nation" (), he was the first Prime Minister after independence. At the time of his death, Somare was also the lo ...
by a vote of 54 to 51.Wingti The Victorious
''Pacific Islands Monthly'', September 1987, pp12–15
Wingti formed a 25-member cabinet, with Minister of Education Aruru Matiabe also serving as Acting Foreign Minister due to the previous incumbent Ted Diro being accused of corruption during an ongoing inquiry.The New Government
''Pacific Islands Monthly'', September 1987, p16
Diro was instead appointed as a minister without portfolio.


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{{Papua New Guinean elections Elections in Papua New Guinea Papua 1987 in Papua New Guinea 1987 election