1997 Falkland Islands general election

1997 Falkland Islands general election

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The Falkland Islands general election of 1997 was held on Thursday 9 October 1997 to elect members to the Legislative Council. Eight Councillors were elected through universal suffrage using block voting, five from the Stanley constituency and three from the Camp constituency.

It was the first election to take place after a constitutional amendment came into force, which redistributed the representation in the constituencies, giving an additional seat to Stanley and removing one from Camp. The amendment also modified voter eligibility.^[1]

Candidates in bold were elected. Candidates in italic were incumbents.

Stanley result[2]
List		Candidates	Votes	Of total (%)	± from prev.
	Nonpartisan	Jan Cheek	627	19.2	N/A
	Nonpartisan	Mike Summers	559	17.1	N/A
	Nonpartisan	Lewis Clifton	558	17.1	N/A
	Nonpartisan	John Birmingham	472	14.5	N/A
	Nonpartisan	Sharon Halford	450	13.8	+5.6
	Nonpartisan	Ben Claxton	292	8.9	+4.1
	Nonpartisan	June Besley-Clark	166	5.1	N/A
	Nonpartisan	A. Jones	98	3.0	N/A
	Nonpartisan	W. Davies	42	1.3	N/A
Turnout			3264

Camp result[2]
List		Candidates	Votes	Of total (%)	± from prev.
	Nonpartisan	Bill Luxton	203	28.2	+5.2
	Nonpartisan	Richard Cockwell	182	25.3	N/A
	Nonpartisan	Norma Edwards	174	24.2	+10.5
	Nonpartisan	Eric Goss	74	10.3	−4.2
	Nonpartisan	Richard Stevens	87	12.1	−1.5
Turnout			720