1987 Surinamese general election

1987 Surinamese general election

← 1977 25 November 1987 1991 →

51 seats in the National Assembly 26 seats needed for a majority

Party Leader Vote % Seats +/– VHP–NPS–KTPI Pretaap Radhakishun 85.50 40 +10 NDP Jules Wijdenbosch 9.29 3 New PALU Errol Alibux 1.69 4 +4 PL Paul Somohardjo 1.55 4 0 This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below. Prime Minister before Prime Minister after Jules Wijdenbosch NDP Jules Wijdenbosch NDP

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General elections were held in Suriname on 25 November 1987. They were the first held in the country since the first post-independence elections in 1977,^[1] and the first since a new constitution was approved in a referendum held a month earlier.

The Front for Democracy and Development, an alliance of the National Party of Suriname (NPS), the Progressive Reform Party (VHP) and the Party for National Unity and Solidarity (KTPI),^[2] won a decisive victory with 40 of the 51 seats with 86% of the vote, the largest vote share achieved by a Surinamese party or alliance since independence in 1975. The National Democratic Party, the political vehicle of Desi Bouterse, the country's de facto leader since a 1980 coup, finished a distant second with three seats. Voter turnout was 85%.