section_path: Results
section_name: Results
paragraph_text: Results
  
  Initial results released on 18 January showed the Leaders Party of Vanuatu with a plurality of 11 seats in parliament, followed by the Vanua'aku Party with seven seats, and Union of Moderate Parties and the Reunification Movement for Change with six seats each, the Iauko Group with five seats and the Land and Justice Party winning four seats. Official results were released on 29 January.
  
  Most incumbents were reelected, while at least two neophytes were elected in Port-Vila. The only woman MP in the outgoing parliament, Julia King, lost her seat in Efate. Only one woman was elected to the new parliament, former Port Vila deputy mayor Marie Louise Paulette Milne, who ran in Port Vila Constituency for the Green Confederation. Her husband, former prime minister Moana Carcasses Kalosil, failed to be elected in Efate Rural Constituency. Of 31 independent candidates, only Gaetan Pikioune, who ran in Santo Constituency, was elected.
  
  On 27 January, the Leaders Party of Vanuatu, the Vanua'aku Party, the Union of Moderate Parties, the Reunification Movement for Change the Iauko Group and the Land and Justice Party agreed to form a coalition government. On 11 February, Jotham Napat of the Leaders Party was elected prime minister by parliament, receiving 50 votes and two void ones.