1987 Surinamese general election
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, and the first since a new constitution was approved in a referendum held a month earlier.
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This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
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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), 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%.