2023 Niuean general election

General elections were held in Niue on 29 April 2023. The elections were originally planned to be held early, in late February or early March. Eight new MPs and six women were elected.

Following the elections the Assembly elected Dalton Tagelagi as Premier.

Electoral system
The 20 members of the Assembly are elected by two methods; 14 are elected from single-member consistencies using first-past-the-post voting and six are elected from a single nationwide constituency by multiple non-transferable vote. There are currently no political parties. After the election, the Members of the Assembly elect a Speaker of the Assembly from outside parliament, and a Premier, who must be an MP. The Premier then chooses a Cabinet.

In 2023, the candidate nomination fee was increased from NZ$11 to NZ$200.

Campaign
A total of 42 candidates contested the election, of which 17 contested the six common roll seats.

Results
Three of the common-roll seats went to newcomers, with the initial results indicating that the final seat would be decided by a coin-toss. The final results on 3 May did not show a tie, with Sonya Talagi winning the last seat on the common roll by two votes.

Six candidates, including Premier Dalton Tagelagi, were elected unopposed. Six women were elected. Three sitting MPs were unseated.

In a secret ballot, the Assembly re-elected Dalton Tagelagi as Premier in a 16-4 vote against O'Love Jacobsen. Tagelagi appointed his Cabinet on 12 May, the first gender-balanced Cabinet in Niuean history.