Leaders

Leaders, alongside the Prisoner of War and Pearls, were one of the main three twists of Survivor: Solomon Islands.
== Overview ==
The leaders had the ability to cast two votes at any given tribal council and pre-merge were given access to the "War Room", where they could converse with the other leader to aide them in the process of choosing the Prisoner of War. The original two leaders were selected via an election on Day 1, with leadership only being able to change hands via the leader being voted out, where the new leader would be the person that the leader voted for at their last tribal council.
At the merge, the two final leaders were sent to the War Room as the other eight people joined the merge. The two leaders then had a Prisoner's Dilemma. If one of them betrayed the other, they will receive The Blessed Pearl which would cancel out a vote for them at every tribal council, but the other person would receive The Cursed Pearl which would add a vote to them at every tribal council. If both co-operated, they will receive individual immunity. If they both betrayed each other, they would both receive a black pearl. 
 In addition to this, the eight non-leaders had the opportunity to vote for a new leader, who will lose their privileges at the Final 4.
Due to the even jury in Solomon Islands, an advantage known as the "Ponderosa Leader" was added to the game which allowed for the person who dropped out of the challenge for a secret advantage which allowed the holder to break a tie at Final Tribal Council. This was won by Abby who elected to secretly give it to Linus. When Linus was removed from the jury, the advantage shifted back to Abby who used it to double her vote for Ned, but was unneeded due to Ned's 6-2 win. 
== Leader History ==
Episode	Leader 	Tribe 	Voted 	Selected
1 	Malik 	Mataniko	Sean 	Elected. Elected by a vote of 5-1-1-1.
1 	James 	Tinakula	N/A 	Elected. Elected by a vote of 8-0.
2 	Malik 	Mataniko	Josiah 	Remained Leader.
2 	James 	Tinakula	N/A 	Remained Leader.
3 	Malik 	Mataniko	Carly 	Remained Leader.
3 	James 	Tinakula	N/A 	Remained Leader.
4 	Malik 	Mataniko	N/A 	Remained Leader.
4 	James 	Tinakula	Roxy 	Remained Leader.
5 	Malik 	Mataniko	N/A 	Remained Leader.
5 	Roxy 	Tinakula	Daniel 	Voted by James.
6 	Roxy 	Mataniko	N/A 	Swapped due to not agreeing on PoW.
6 	Malik 	Tinakula	Teto 	Swapped due to not agreeing on PoW.
7 	Roxy 	Mataniko	
Cooperate	Remained Leader.
7 	Teto(Not Leader)	Tinakula	Cooperate	Voted by Malik.
7 	Issy 	Eitfala 	Issy 	Elected most popular by the tribe. Self-voted.
8 	Issy 	Eitfala 	Felicia 	Remained Leader.
9 	Issy 	Eitfala 	Abby 	Remained Leader.
10 	Issy 	Eitfala 	David 	Remained Leader.
11 	Issy 	Eitfala 	Linus 	Remained Leader.
12 	Issy 	Eitfala 	Abby 	Remained Leader. Voted Out/Leader Retired.
14 	LinusAbby 	Jury 	Ned 	Unread due to Ned's 6-2 win.