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The 2065 Greater Solomon Kingdom General Election was held on Tuesday, 5th May 2065. It resulted in a victory for the Universal Labour Union, the Social Justice Party, and the Green Party at the expense of the traditionally right-wing parties.

Following the 2061 election, a coalition was formed between the Social Justice Party and the Solomon Islands Democratic Party, with a confidence and supply agreement with Solomon First. The Chamber session was set to expire in 2066 due to session lengths of 5 years, but an early election was called following the withdrawal of the Democratic Party from the coalition, after the election of Manasseh Sogavare as leader of the party in 2064.

Opinion polls had indicated small gains for the Universal Labour Union, with the Social Justice Party projected to make significant losses to the Democratic Party, but anti-expansionist sentiment near to the date of the election gave the Social Justice Party a sudden boost in the polls.

Anti-expansionist parties (Social Justice, Freedom, Java, and Green) achieved their strongest combined result of 163 seats, while the Democratic Party suffered its worst result ever since the 2034 revolution, with only 42 seats, relegating it to the third largest party. Nonetheless, entrance of the Social Justice Party into a coalition allowed the Democrats to become the Official Opposition.

In the government formation, the ruling out of any agreements with the Freedom Alliance, Java Party, and Solomon First by the Universal Labour Union left the only possible coalition to be one between Universal Labour and Social Justice. In the negotiations, Social Justice insisted the Green Party be included, in order to have a balance between pro and anti expansionist parties. The new government was sworn in on the 1st June 2065, with Kiri Allen becoming Prime Minister. The government agreement to allow for a free vote between the parties on issues pertaining to expansionism, the first such arrangement, has been considered to be a victory for the anti-expansionist parties.

The coalition between the Social Justice Party and the Universal Labour Union was considered to be a grand coalition, the first of its type, due to the parties' opposing positions on expansionism. As a result, this election resulted in what was speculated to be a realignment of Solomon politics, to be that of the left-right political spectrum of other countries, in contrast to the positions on expansionism previously dominant.