General elections were held in Tuvalu on 8 September 1981. Voter turnout was 85%. A total of 26 candidates contested the 12 seats. As there were no political...

agree" Tuvalu's foreign security arrangements in exchange for allowing Tuvaluans displaced by climate change to immigrate to Australia, and the country's...

Toaripi Lauti was acting in a caretaker capacity only until the 1981 Tuvaluan general election was held. At the date of independence there were 12 members...

General elections were held in Tuvalu on 27 September 1989. Bikenibeu Paeniu was elected Prime Minister following the elections and formed a five-member...

Early general elections were held in Tuvalu on 25 November 1993, after the previous elections in September had resulted in a deadlock in Parliament, with...

General elections were held in Tuvalu on 12 September 1985. As there were no political parties, all candidates for the 12 seats ran as independents, with...

the Ellice Islands separated from the Gilbert and Ellice Islands. The Tuvaluan Order 1975, which took effect on 1 October 1975, recognised Tuvalu as a...

General elections were held in Tuvalu on 26 March 1998. There are no formal parties in Tuvalu. The political system is based on personal alliances and...

General elections were held in Tuvalu on 25 July 2002. All candidates were independents, as there are no political parties in the country. Saufatu Sopoanga...

by-election in the following month. The election was won by his widow, Pelenike Isaia, who became only the second woman ever to have sat in the Tuvaluan...