Buaki Singeri
Buaki Singeri | |
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| Member of the National Parliament | |
| In office 1972–1977 | |
| Preceded by | |
| Succeeded by | |
| Constituency | Kabwum Open |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1937 , New Guinea |
| Died | June 1987 |
Buaki Singeri (1937 – June 1987) was a Papua New Guinean politician. He served as a member of the House of Assembly and National Parliament from 1972 until 1977.
Biography[]
Singeri was born in 1937 in the village of in the Territory of New Guinea.[1] He attended a mission school between 1948 and 1955 and spent 1956 in an Administration School.[1] Between 1957 and 1961 he trained as a Medical Assistant at the Papua Medical College in Port Moresby.[1] He subsequently worked as a clerk in the Department of District Administration in Kabwum from 1962 to 1967 and owned a coffee plantation.[1] He married and had five children.[1]
Singeri contested the Kabwum seat in the 1968 general elections, finishing second to eventual winner in first preference votes.[2] However, he defeated Gam in the 1972 elections and was elected to the House of Assembly, which was renamed the National Parliament at independence in 1975. In the 1977 elections he finished third in the first-preference vote tally and was unseated by .[3] He contested the Lae constituency in the 1982 elections, but finished eighth out of nine candidates.[3]
He died in June 1987 following a long illness.[4]
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d e Members of the Third House of Assembly, p48
- ^ Primary count details in New Guinea election Pacific Islands Monthly, April 1968, p29
- ^ Jump up to: a b Papua New Guinea Election Results 1972 – 2012 Development Policy Centre
- ^ Transitions Pacific Islands Monthly, August 1987, p52
- Papua New Guinean civil servants
- Papua New Guinean farmers
- Members of the House of Assembly of Papua and New Guinea
- Members of the National Parliament of Papua New Guinea
- 1987 deaths