In July the Melanesian Progressive Party requested that they be postponed, contesting the constitutionality of the Peoples Representation Act No.

[1] The Principal Electoral Officer, Martin Tete, confirmed that the election would take place on 2 September, as scheduled.

[3] Over three hundred candidates, of which nine women, stood for election,[4] representing twenty-five political parties and approximately eighty independents.

[7] Two veteran politicians, the incumbent finance minister Willie Jimmy and former PM Barak Sopé, appear to have failed to be reelected, while the independent Ralph Regenvanu appeared to have got the most votes in his constituency of Port Vila and the leaders of the Green Confederation (Moana Carcasses) as well as of the Vanuatu Republican Party (Maxime Carlot Korman) as well as the deputy PM Edward Natapei were returned to parliament.

[13][14] However, the leader of the Vanuatu Republican Party, Maxime Korman, now claims he has enough votes to form his own government and become prime minister.