2022 Cook Islands general election

General elections are scheculed to be held in the Cook Islands in 2022.[1]

2022 Cook Islands general election
2022
24 seats
13 seats needed for a majority
PartyLeader Current seats
Democratic Tina Browne 11
Cook Islands Mark Brown 9
OCI George Turia 1
Independents – 3
Incumbent Prime Minister
Mark Brown
Cook Islands
Politics of the Cook Islands

Electoral system

The 24 members of the Parliament of the Cook Islands are elected from single-member electorates by first-past-the-post voting.[2]

Campaign

The One Cook Islands Movement (OCI) announced its candidates in November 2021.[3] However, they caused controversy by claiming Toanui Isamaela and Teina Bishop would stand as joint OCI–Democratic Party candidates; this was denied by the Democratic Party, which stated it would be announcing its own candidates and there was no alliance with the OCI.[4]

In December 2021 the new Cook Islands United Party, founded by former Deputy Prime Minister Teariki Heather in 2018, announced eleven candidates for the elections.[5]

References
  1. "New political party to launch in Cook Islands". RNZ. 14 October 2019.
  2. "Cook Islands 2014 elections in brief" (PDF). Electoral Office.
  3. "Aitutaki One Cook Islands/Demo announce candidates for 2022 Elections". Cook Islands News. 17 November 2021.
  4. "'No OCI/Demo coalition whatsoever'". Cook Islands News. 20 November 2021.
  5. "'United' we stand". Cook Islands News. 3 December 2021.


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