1987 Mauritian general election

1987 Mauritian general election

30 August 1987 (1987-08-30)
All 62 directly elected seats in the National Assembly (and up to 8 BLS seats)
First party Second party   Leader Anerood Jugnauth Prem Nababsing Party MSM MMM Alliance MSM-Labour Last election 41 seats 22 seats Seats won 40 24 Seat change 1 2 Popular vote 675,757 789,268 Percentage 40.5% 47.3%
Result by constituency. The colour shade shows the percentage of the elected candidate with the highest number of votes
Prime Minister before election Anerood Jugnauth MSM Subsequent Prime Minister Anerood Jugnauth MSM

General elections were held in Mauritius on 30 August 1987. The result was a victory for the Alliance, composed of the Labour Party, the Mauritian Socialist Movement and the Mauritian Social Democrat Party, which won 44 of the 70 seats, despite receiving a lower percentage of the vote than the MMM-led alliance.^[1]

The voting system involved twenty constituencies on Mauritius, which each elected three members. Two seats were elected by residents of Rodrigues, and up to eight seats were filled by the "best losers".^[2] Voter turnout was 85%.^[3]

Results

All 24 seats won by the Union were taken by the MMM. Of the 40 seats won by the MSM–Labour Party alliance, 31 were won by the MSM (26 constituency, five best loser) and nine by the Labour Party (all constituency seats).^[4]

Party		Votes	%	Seats
				Cons	BL	Total	+/–
	Union (MMM–DLM–SWF)	789,268	47.30	21	3	24	+2
	Alliance (MSM–Labour Party)	675,757	40.50	35	5	40	–1
	Mauritian Social Democrat Party	141,878	8.50	4	0	4	–1
	Rodrigues People's Organisation	17,044	1.02	2	0	2	0
	Rodrigues People's Grouping	11,826	0.71	0	0	0	New
	Lalit	8,723	0.52	0	0	0	0
	Mauritian People's Party	3,794	0.23	0	0	0	0
	MTS	2,077	0.12	0	0	0	New
	OMT-FNAS	1,529	0.09	0	0	0	New
	MEM/PE	678	0.04	0	0	0	New
	Mauritian Future	676	0.04	0	0	0	New
	National Mauritius Muslim Rights	606	0.04	0	0	0	New
	Progressive Socialist Movement	590	0.04	0	0	0	New
	Mauritian Planters Movement	524	0.03	0	0	0	New
	Rally for the Economy and Development	512	0.03	0	0	0	New
	Socialist Movement of the South	459	0.03	0	0	0	New
	Mario Fabien Grouping	362	0.02	0	0	0	New
	Tamil Fraternity of Mauritius	240	0.01	0	0	0	New
	People's Democratic Movement	117	0.01	0	0	0	New
	Mauritian National Party	57	0.00	0	0	0	New
	Mauritius United Party	54	0.00	0	0	0	New
	Mauritian Unity Organisation	41	0.00	0	0	0	New
	Independents	11,927	0.71	0	0	0	0
Total		1,668,739	100.00	62	8	70	0
Registered voters/turnout		639,491	–
Source: Electoral Commission, Nohlen et al., African Elections Database

References

1. Dieter Nohlen, Michael Krennerich & Bernhard Thibaut (1999) Elections in Africa: A data handbook, p618 ISBN 0-19-829645-2
2. Mauritius: Background to the 1967 Legislative Assembly election EISA
3. Mauritius: 1987 Legislative Assembly election results EISA
4. Elections in Mauritius African Elections Database