Mr Polye's camp in turn blames Mr Manase scrutineers and supporters for disrupting the vote counting process, and generally lays blame with the People's National Congress for creating grounds for chaos in the Kandep seat. Apprehended scrutineers who disrupted the Kandep vote counting place in Wabag town a day before the deadly violence broke out.
The PNC leader Peter O'Neill, who is seeking to retain the prime minister's role when parliament begins next month, has voiced disgust at the violence in Wabag.
Mr O'Neill characterised the Wabag clashes as an isolated incident in an otherwise peaceful election period. However, earlier in the week, supporters of the losing candidate in the Finschafen electorate, Theo Zurenuoc, a PNC member who was speaker of parliament last term, went on a rampage and burnt down several school facilities and a police station. A Wabag local and former PNG deputy prime minister Sam Abal said local people were fed up with the spectre of violence around election time.
He explained that locals were especially uneasy when gunmen attached to the two leading Kandep candidates began coming to town as the election advanced. According to Mr Abal, while in government until , he tried to end the cycle of violence in his province.
Let's hold the shovel, let's grow vegetables and things like that. Mr Abal, who is standing in the Wabag seat, says that in his electorate all ballot boxes were counted, unlike for Kandep. Now Don's people are trying to get the RO to count theirs. In the meantime you could use the database and compare the parties that MPs were elected under in with those that they stood under in — this would give you some sense of party changes mid-term, although it would not be ideal.
On results — I am still trying to get these. I hope I might have them sometime soon. But I am not sure of this. Thank you so much for your work. It is a must have source of reference for students, researchers and public here in PNG. Thank you so much historian. I do note your Point 5 on women participation in national election and they are spot on. While women are recorded for nationally,looking at the interest rate for each provinces for Chimbu 11 EHP 13 East Sepik 11 Madang 14 Morobe 13 Central 14 Gulf 12 NDC 13 I am wondering what could be the underlying factors in these high numbers?
Thank you Gerard, those are very good questions. My hope is that reseachers from PNG can take their own knowledge of the country and combine it with the information in the database to provide answers to important questions like the ones you raise. Thank you Terence for the analysis and the data base as well. As alluded to by Bal, its definitely a worthwhile tool to have in terms of monitoring and reviewing elections results in PNG.
Thank you Terence and team for setting up this database — an important contribution to PNG electoral records! It will certainly inform research as well as the public on their electoral history and allow better campaign strategies.
Sign me up for the fortnightly newsletter! Don't subscribe All Replies to my comments Notify me of followup comments via e-mail. You can also subscribe without commenting. Written by Terence Wood. Point 1: Candidate numbers have gone up The chart below covers every general election since Trends in candidate numbers Point 2: Winning candidate vote shares have come down — to a point The next chart shows trends in maximum, median and minimum winning candidate vote shares over time. Trends in winning candidate vote shares Point 3: There are no clear trends in incumbent turnover rates With more candidates contesting one might expect sitting MPs to be having an increasingly difficult time holding onto their seats.
Percentage of incumbents who contested and won or lost Point 4: There is a lot of variation Key electoral features differ a lot between different parts of Papua New Guinea.
Candidate numbers in Enga Province constituencies in the election Point 5: The playing field is unfairly tilted against women candidates Most of the time access to money is crucial in electoral campaigns in PNG.
Number of successful women candidates in PNG, by election These are five key facts for you. Download PDF. Papua New Guinea's revolving door. Prime Minister James Marape pictured has confirmed that the National General Election will go ahead as scheduled this year. Prime Minister James Marape has confirmed that the National General Election will go ahead as scheduled this year. Mr Marape added the election would be funded by the Government despite the Electoral Commission still carrying many legacy issues of the past.
The voter. The articles included highlight Vote for the Future. The book, Vote for the Future was published in by the Oxford University Press and is directed at the importance of youth education of politics and elections in Papua New Guinea.
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