elections: unicameral Territorial Congress or Congres du territoire (54 seats; members belong to the three Provincial Assemblies or Assemblees Provinciales elected by popular vote to serve five-year terms) last held 9 May 2009 (next to be held in 10 May 2014)
election results: percent of vote by party - NA; seats by party - UMP 13, Caledonia Together 10, UC 8, UNI 8, AE 6, FLNKS 3, Labor Party 3, other 3
note: New Caledonia holds two seats in the French Senate; elections last held 21 September 2008 (next to be held not later than September 2014); results - percent of vote by party - NA; seats by party - UMP 2; New Caledonia also elects two seats to the French National Assembly; elections last held 10 and 17 June 2007 (next to be held on June 2012); results - percent of vote by party - NA; seats by party - UMP 2
Judicial branch:
Court of Appeal or Cour d'Appel; County Courts; Joint Commerce
Tribunal Court; Children's Court
Political parties and leaders:
Alliance pour la Caledonie or APLC [Didier LE ROUX]; Caledonia
Together [Philippe GOMES]; Caledonian Union or UC [Charles PIDJOT];
Federation des Comites de Coordination des Independantistes or FCCI
[Francois BURCK]; Front National or FN [Jean-Marie LE PEN]; Front
Uni de Liberation Kanak or FULK [Ernest UNE]; Labor Party or PT
[Louis Kora UREGEI]; Kanak Socialist Front for National Liberation
or FLNKS (includes PALIKA, UNI, UC, and UPM); Parti de Liberation
Kanak or PALIKA [Paul NEAOUTYINE]; Rally for Caledonia or RPC
[Jacques LAFLEUR]; The Future Together or AE [Didier LEROUX]; The
Rally or UMP [Pierre FROGIER]; Union Nationale pour l'Independance
or UNI; Union Progressiste Melanesienne or UPM [Victor TUTUGORO]
Political pressure groups and leaders:
NA
International organization participation: