2025 Tongan general election
20 November 2025
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All 26 elected seats in the Legislative Assembly 14 seats needed for a majority | |||||||||||||
| Turnout | 49.87% ( 12.05pp) | ||||||||||||
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This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
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General elections were held in Tonga on 20 November 2025. Prominent campaign issues included the cost of living and the monarchy's influence in government.
ʻAisake Eke became prime minister in January 2025. He succeeded Siaosi Sovaleni, who served from 2021 until his resignation in December 2024, shortly before a planned no-confidence motion, which Eke introduced. In August 2025, parliament passed a bill to replace the foreign ministry with an entity named His Majesty's Diplomatic Services, which would be under the monarch's authority. Royalists supported the bill, while pro-democracy advocates criticised it.
For the first time since its formation, the Democratic Party of the Friendly Islands (PTOA) failed to win any seats. Only one woman was elected, while two cabinet ministers lost their seats. Voter turnout was 49%, a decline from 62% in the 2021 election. Parliament elected a prime minister on 15 December. Two members of parliament were nominated, Prime Minister Eke and Parliamentary Speaker Fatafehi Fakafānua. The candidacy of Fakafānua, who is a relative of King Tupou VI, marked the first time a nobles' representative had run for prime minister since 2010. Fakafānua defeated Eke and became the second noble to serve as prime minister since democratisation. While some Tongans welcomed Fakafānua's victory, many pro-democracy advocates viewed his election as a setback for the country's democratic reforms.