Sandaun Province, officially West Sepik Province, is the north-westernmost province of Papua New Guinea

Papua New Guinea

Papua New Guinea , officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, is a country in Oceania, occupying the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and numerous offshore islands...

. It covers an area of 36,300 km² and has a population of 185,741 (2000 census). The capital is Vanimo

Vanimo

Vanimo is the capital of Sandaun Province in Papua New Guinea. It is located on a peninsula close to the border with Indonesia.Vanimo is a small township with an economy based around the timber industry. Logging company Vanimo Forest Products, which is owned by Malaysian company Rimbunan Hijau, is...

. In July 1998 the area surrounding the town Aitape

Aitape

Aitape is a small town of about 8,000 people on the north coast of Papua New Guinea in the Sandaun Province. It is a coastal settlement that is almost equidistant from the provincial capitals of Wewak and Vanimo, and marks the midpoint of the highway between these two capitals...

 suffered from an enormous tsunami in which killed over 2,000 people in total.

Districts and LLGs

There are four districts

Districts and LLGs of Papua New Guinea

||This page is a list of districts and Local-Level Government areas of Papua New Guinea.On the highest level, Papua New Guinea is divided into four Regions. Below, Papua New Guinea has 20 province-level divisions: 18 integrated provinces, the autonomous province of North Solomons and the National...

 in the province. Each district has one or more Local Level Government (LLG) areas. For census

Census

A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring and recording information about the members of a given population. It is a regularly occurring and official count of a particular population. The term is used mostly in connection with national population and housing censuses; other common...

 purposes, the LLG areas are subdivided into wards and those into census units.

District	District Capital	LLG Name
Aitape-Lumi District Aitape-Lumi District Aitape-Lumi District is a district of the Sandaun Province of Papua New Guinea. Its capital is Aitape....	Aitape Aitape Aitape is a small town of about 8,000 people on the north coast of Papua New Guinea in the Sandaun Province. It is a coastal settlement that is almost equidistant from the provincial capitals of Wewak and Vanimo, and marks the midpoint of the highway between these two capitals...	East Aitape Rural
		East Wapei Rural
		West Aitape Rural
		West Wapei Rural
Nuku District Nuku District Nuku District is a district of the Sandaun Province of Papua New Guinea. Its capital is Nuku....	Nuku Nuku (Papua New Guinea) Nuku, also known as Nuku Station, is the capital of Nuku District in Sandaun Province, Papua New Guinea. The district is the tertiary level of political division within Papua New Guinea, after the national and provincial levels...	Nuku Rural
		Palai Rural
		Yangkok Rural
		Maimai Wanwan Rural
Telefomin District Telefomin District Telefomin District is a district of the Sandaun Province of Papua New Guinea. Its capital is Telefomin....	Telefomin Telefomin Telefomin is a station town on the border of Sandaun and Western Provinces in Papua New Guinea. The town started during the Second World War after Mick Leahy was assigned to engineer an air-strip in 1944 for the United States for use against the Imperial Japanese Army forces based in New Guinea.The...	Namea Rural
		Oksapmin Rural
		Telefomin Rural
		Yapsie Rural
Vanimo-Green River District Vanimo-Green River District Vanimo-Green River District is a district of the Sandaun Province of Papua New Guinea. Its capital is Vanimo....	Vanimo Vanimo Vanimo is the capital of Sandaun Province in Papua New Guinea. It is located on a peninsula close to the border with Indonesia.Vanimo is a small township with an economy based around the timber industry. Logging company Vanimo Forest Products, which is owned by Malaysian company Rimbunan Hijau, is...	Amanab Rural
		Bewani-Wutung-Onei Rural
		Green River Rural
		Vanimo Urban
		Walsa Rural

Members of the National Parliament

The province and each district is represented by a Member of the National Parliament

National Parliament of Papua New Guinea

The National Parliament of Papua New Guinea is the unicameral national legislature in Papua New Guinea. It was first created in 1964 as the House of Assembly of Papua and New Guinea, but gained its current name with the granting of independence in 1975....

. There is one provincial electorate

Electoral district

An electoral district is a distinct territorial subdivision for holding a separate election for one or more seats in a legislative body...

 and each district is an open electorate. The following table lists Members before and after the 2007 general election

Results of the Papua New Guinean general election, 2007

Counting of the official results of the Papua New Guinean general election to elect members of the 2007–2012 National Parliament, held from 30 June 2007 to 14 July 2007, was largely completed by 6 August, the deadline for the return of writs. Counting in two seats was delayed for a further few days...

.

Electorate	Previous member (party)	2007 winner (party)
West Sepik Provincial	Carlos Yuni (Independent Independent (politician) In politics, an independent or non-party politician is an individual not affiliated to any political party. Independents may hold a centrist viewpoint between those of major political parties, a viewpoint more extreme than any major party, or they may have a viewpoint based on issues that they do... )	Simon Solo Simon Solo Simon Solo is a Papua New Guinea politician. He has been the National Alliance Governor of Sandaun Province and the member for West Sepik Provincial in the National Parliament of Papua New Guinea since July 2007. He defeated independent MP Carlos Yuni, who had represented the seat since 2002. Yuni...  (NA National Alliance Party (Papua New Guinea) The National Alliance Party is a political party in Papua New Guinea. It was founded in 1995 by Bernard Narokobi, Moi Avei, Bart Philemon and Masket Iangalio, who invited Sir Michael Somare to lead them to the 1997 elections after he had been sacked as leader of the Pangu Party.National Alliance... )
Aitape-Lumi Open	Patrick Pruaitch (NA National Alliance Party (Papua New Guinea) The National Alliance Party is a political party in Papua New Guinea. It was founded in 1995 by Bernard Narokobi, Moi Avei, Bart Philemon and Masket Iangalio, who invited Sir Michael Somare to lead them to the 1997 elections after he had been sacked as leader of the Pangu Party.National Alliance... )	Patrick Pruaitch (NA National Alliance Party (Papua New Guinea) The National Alliance Party is a political party in Papua New Guinea. It was founded in 1995 by Bernard Narokobi, Moi Avei, Bart Philemon and Masket Iangalio, who invited Sir Michael Somare to lead them to the 1997 elections after he had been sacked as leader of the Pangu Party.National Alliance... )
Nuku Open	Andrew Kumbakor (PANGU Pangu Party The Pangu Party or Papua and Niugini Union Pati is a political party in Papua New Guinea.It was founded in 1968 by Michael Somare, who served as prime minister of Papua New Guinea as the leader of the Pangu Party from 1972 to 1980 and from 1982 to 1985... )	Andrew Kumbakor (PANGU Pangu Party The Pangu Party or Papua and Niugini Union Pati is a political party in Papua New Guinea.It was founded in 1968 by Michael Somare, who served as prime minister of Papua New Guinea as the leader of the Pangu Party from 1972 to 1980 and from 1982 to 1985... )
Telefomin Open	Atimeng Buhupe (NA National Alliance Party (Papua New Guinea) The National Alliance Party is a political party in Papua New Guinea. It was founded in 1995 by Bernard Narokobi, Moi Avei, Bart Philemon and Masket Iangalio, who invited Sir Michael Somare to lead them to the 1997 elections after he had been sacked as leader of the Pangu Party.National Alliance... )	Peter Iwei Peter Iwei Peter Iwei is a Papua New Guinea politician. He has been a People's Democratic Movement member of the National Parliament of Papua New Guinea since July 2007, representing the electorate of Telefomin Open....  (PDM People's Democratic Movement The People's Democratic Movement is a political party in Papua New Guinea.It was founded by Paias Wingti in 1985, after his faction left the Pangu Party. Wingti served as prime minister from 1985 to 1988 and from 1992 to 1994... )
Vanimo-Green River Open	Philip Inou (PAP People's Action Party (Papua New Guinea) The People's Action Party is a right-of-centre political party in Papua New Guinea.At the legislative elections in June 2002, the party won 5 out of 109 seats in total . At the last legislative elections, in June and July 2007, the party won 6 seats. It supports the government of Prime Minister... )	Belden Namah Belden Namah Belden Namah is a Papua New Guinean politician and former military officer.In the 1990s, he was an officer in the Papua New Guinea Defence Force, with the rank of captain. He was involved in the aftermath of the Sandline affair in 1997...  (NA National Alliance Party (Papua New Guinea) The National Alliance Party is a political party in Papua New Guinea. It was founded in 1995 by Bernard Narokobi, Moi Avei, Bart Philemon and Masket Iangalio, who invited Sir Michael Somare to lead them to the 1997 elections after he had been sacked as leader of the Pangu Party.National Alliance... )