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1987 Papua New Guinean general election information


1987 Papua New Guinean general election
Papua New Guinea
← 1982 13 June-4 July 1987 1992 →

All 109 seats in the National Parliament
55 seats needed for a majority
Party Leader % Seats +/–
Pangu Pati Michael Somare 14.93 26 −25
PDM Paias Wingti 10.93 17 New
National Party 4.97 12 −1
MAP Michael Somare 5.62 7 −1
PAP Ted Diro 3.21 6 New
PPP Julius Chan 6.16 5 −9
Morobe Utula Samana 2.23 4 New
LNA John Nilkare 4.83 3 New
Papua Party Galeva Kwarara 1.27 3 +3
United Party 3.19 1 −8
Independents 40.90 22 +18
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
Prime Minister before Prime Minister after
Paias Wingti
PDM
Paias Wingti
PDM

General elections were held in Papua New Guinea between 13 June and 4 July 1987.[1] The Pangu Party emerged as the largest party, winning 26 of the 109 seats. Voter turnout was 73.5%.

  1. ^ Dieter Nohlen, Florian Grotz & Christof Hartmann (2001) Elections in Asia: A data handbook, Volume II, p770 ISBN 0-19-924959-8

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