Legislative elections were held in

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on 10 May 2009. Voters elected 76 members of the three provincial assemblies, of whom 54 were also to become members of the territorial

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. The Labour Party, which had been founded in 2007 as the political arm of the pro-independence

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, contested the elections for the first time and hoped to gain 12,000 votes and a seat. Due to splits in the two main parties of the anti-independence front,

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and

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(from which

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split off in October 2008), the main pro-independence party, the

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(FLNKS), hoped to become the largest party in the elections.

Campaign

The newly elected Congress was to decide how to implement the autonomy provisions of the Noumea Accord of 1998. Apart from the island's political future, the economy and New Caledonia's high

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were the main issue in the election campaign.

Results

References

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