QQMACANSLOT In addition to the seats won by the National Alliance Party directly, thirteen independents joined the party after the election. Early results on 15 July indicated that incumbent Prime Minister Sir Michael Somare's National Alliance Party was picking up more seats than other parties of the National Parliament of Papua New Guinea's 109 seats. Counting in two seats was extended for a few days due to legal challenges halting the counting process. For the first time, the election did not use first past the post (which has in the past resulted in a very volatile political system, with the election of a candidate being largely a matter of chance due to the large number of candidates), but rather Limited Preferential Voting, in which voters number their three most preferred candidates.|Despite a new Performance-boosting Supercharger Option