General elections were held in

Niue Niue is a self-governing island country in free association with New Zealand. It is situated in the South Pacific Ocean and is part of Polynesia, and predominantly inhabited by Polynesians. One of the world's largest coral islands, Niue is c ...

on 29 April 2023. The elections were originally planned to be held early, in late February or early March. Eight new MPs and six women were elected. Following the elections the Assembly elected

Dalton Tagelagi Dalton Emani Makamau Tagelagi (born 5 June 1968) is a Niuean politician who is serving as the sixth and current prime minister of Niue since June 2020. He was elected premier by the Niue Legislative Assembly on 11 June 2020, defeating O'Lov ...

as Premier.

Electoral system

The 20 members of the Assembly are elected by two methods; 14 are elected from single-member consistencies using

first-past-the-post voting First-past-the-post (FPTP)—also called choose-one, first-preference plurality (FPP), or simply plurality—is a single-winner voting rule. Voters mark one candidate as their favorite, or first-preference, and the candidate with more first- ...

and six are elected from a single nationwide constituency by

multiple non-transferable vote Plurality block voting is a type of block voting method for multi-winner elections. Each voter may cast as many votes as the number of seats to be filled. The candidates with the most votes are elected. The usual result when the candidates div ...

. There are currently no political parties. After the election, the Members of the Assembly elect a Speaker of the Assembly from outside parliament, and a Premier, who must be an MP. The Premier then chooses a Cabinet. In 2023, the candidate nomination fee was increased from NZ$11 to NZ$200.

Campaign

A total of 42 candidates contested the election, of which 17 contested the six common roll seats.

Results

Three of the common-roll seats went to newcomers, with the initial results indicating that the final seat would be decided by a coin-toss. The final results on 3 May did not show a tie, with Sonya Talagi winning the last seat on the common roll by two votes. Six candidates, including Premier

, were elected unopposed. Six women were elected. Three sitting MPs were unseated. In a secret ballot, the Assembly re-elected

as Premier in a 16-4 vote against

O'Love Jacobsen Tauveve O’Love Jacobsen is a Niuean politician and diplomat. She served as Niue's High Commissioner to New Zealand from 2011 to 2017. Her predecessor was Sisilia Talagi, Niue's first female diplomat and High Commissioner. She had previousl ...

. Tagelagi appointed his Cabinet on 12 May, the first gender-balanced Cabinet in Niuean history.

Common roll

By constituency

Constituencies

References

{{Niuean elections Elections in Niue

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