2014 Tongan general election

2014 Tongan general election

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17 of the 26 seats in the Legislative Assembly
First party   Leader ʻAkilisi Pōhiva Party DPFI Last election 28.49%, 12 seats Seats won 9 Seat change 3 Popular vote 13,548 Percentage 33.34% Swing 4.85pp
Prime Minister before election Sialeʻataongo Tuʻivakanō Independent Subsequent Prime Minister ʻAkilisi Pōhiva DPFI

Politics of Tonga
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Monarchy King Tupou VI Crown Prince Tupoutoʻa ʻUlukalala Succession Privy Council
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Elections Recent elections (constituencies) General: 2014 2017 2021 next Political parties Democratic Party of the Friendly Islands (DPFI) People's Democratic Party (PDP)
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General elections were held in Tonga on 27 November 2014.^[1] All twenty-six elected seats in the single-chamber Legislative Assembly were up for election, although the monarch, acting on the advice of his Prime Minister, retains the possibility to appoint members to Cabinet from outside Parliament, thus granting them a non-elected ex officio seat in Parliament.

They were the second elections carried out under the May 2010 electoral law, which provided that a majority of Assembly members should be elected by the people, rather than the people and the nobility having equal representation.^[2] The November 2010 general election was the first held under this new democratic principle; it was also the first to produce a Parliament empowered to give binding advice to the King as to the appointment of a Prime Minister.^[2]