Solomon Islands 2019 Election Results

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UPDATE. Accusations of corruption.
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My thanks to Professor Clive Moore,  University of Queensland and Convenor of the Solomon Islands Information Network (c.moore@uq.edu.au), for the results that follow.


For a critique of past government performance by a Solomon Islander see my last posting pn329 "Solomon Islands Soccer Soccer Disqualifications has Lessons for its General Elections." 

I'm no expert on the Solomon Islands, though I published a monograph "Popiulesin Blong Honiara" based on the 1986 census, but the election results suggest that the Westminster party system is not entirely appropriate for a society which is still essentially rural, only basically literate, fragmented by islands, with local loyalties, and little idea of what's going on in government. The small number voting for parties and the large number of "independents" seem to bear this out.

Some system of indirect voting, one of the oldest forms of elections, where people elect someone in their village or locality who then, with people from other villages,  elects others at perhaps island level, and then to national level, would seem to be a better alternative.  

The top two parties won only eight seats each in a parliament of 50, the final result was heavy reliant on "affiliated" independents, and five of the 15 parties that stood did not have a candidate elected. All this in a population of 512,000. Personal and local loyalties and limited policy alternatives impede the development of  a true party system. -- ACW

2019 National General Election Statistics


All results for the NGE 2019 have been declared and here are the statistics.

New and Re-electe MPs
The majority of former Members of Parliament have retained their seats winning 72 percent of the 50 seats. New Members make up only 28 percent

Gender
Women make up around 50 percent of Solomon Islands' population. However, women representation in the 11th Parliament stands at four percent. Only two women have been elected, leaving the highest assembly once again dominated by men.

Percentage of Votes Received by MPs Elect
The average votes received by winning candidates is around 48 percent of the total votes casted. Jeremiah Manele received the highest percentage of votes by any winning candidate with 74 percent of the total votes casted in the Hograno-Kia-Havulei constituency.


Robertson Galokale received the lowest percentage of votes by any winning candidate having received only 19 percent of the total votes casted in the South Choiseul constituency.

Political Parties
Solomon Islands KADERE Party and Solomon Islands Democratic Party won the most seats in this year's election. Led by John Maneniaru and Matthew Cooper Wale respectively, they both secured a total of 8 seats each.

However, Solomon Islands KADERE Party can claim 15 more seats from its shadow candidates who have contested as Independents. Most prominent among them is Manasseh Damukana Sogavare who was the Deputy Prime Minister in the previous SIDCCG.

Independents won the majority of seats in this year's election. When considered together, they won 21 of the 50 seats. However, of the the 21 registered Independents, only six are not affiliates of Solomon Islands KADERE Party.

The United Democratic Party led by former Prime Minister Danny Phillip has won four seats.

The most successful party in the 2014 NGE, the Democratic Alliance Party, of which caretaker Prime Minister Rick Nelson Houenipwela is a member, has failed to replicate its success managing to only secure three seats.

Solomon Islands United Party which fielded the highest number of registered candidates by a political party has only managed to win two seats. Its leader, the son of Rgt. Hon. Sir Peter Kenilorea, who won the East Are Are seat has been reported to have said that his party will not take the front seat in the formation of a new government, at least by not forming a camp.

Solomon Islands' oldest surviving party, the People's Alliance Party also won two seats while Solomon Islands People First Party and Solomon Islands Party for Rural Advancement have each secured one seat.

Five of the thirteen political parties which contested this year's election- the Greens Party of Solomon Islands, People's Progressive Party, National Transformation Party of Solomon Islands, New Nations Party, and Pan Melanesian Congress Party- have failed to win a seat.

(Update: We did not include Namson Tran Member of Parliament elect of West Honiara as an affiliate of Solomon Islands KADERE Party in this statistics. We did so because KADERE party in its announcement of affiliated candidates prior to election although acknowledging Tran's support of their policy, did not include him in their list)

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Solomon Islands Fact File 7 April at 06:29 ·



















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