 |
|---|
Elections for the Local Government Council were held in Nauru in late 1959. [1] Seven of the nine incumbent councillors were re-elected and Hammer DeRoburt was re-elected as Head Chief by the Council. [1]
| |
|---|
Elections for the Local Government Council were held in Nauru in late 1959. [1] Seven of the nine incumbent councillors were re-elected and Hammer DeRoburt was re-elected as Head Chief by the Council. [1]
Of the eight constituencies, four of them had contested elections. The nominees in the remaining constituencies won by default. The following is a list of the nominees in the contested constituencies. [2]
| Constituency | Nominees |
|---|---|
| Boe | Hammer DeRoburt |
| Adue Moses | |
| Tamaiti Willie Star | |
| Buada | Austin Bernicke |
| Totouwa Depaune | |
| Meneng | James Aingimea |
| Simeon Baguga | |
| James Ategan Bop | |
| Elliot Halstead | |
| Dibwet Jose | |
| Ubenide | Buraro Robidok Detudamo |
| Idarabwabwin Victor Eoaeo | |
| Jacob Dagabwinare | |
| Dagabo Scotty | |
| Simpson Scotty |
| Constituency | Elected member | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Aiwo | Raymond Gadabu | Re-elected |
| Anabar | Agoko Doguape | Re-elected |
| Anetan | Roy Degoregore | Re-elected |
| Boe | Hammer DeRoburt | Re-elected |
| Buada | Austin Bernicke | Re-elected |
| Meneng | James Ategan Bop | |
| Ubenide | Buraro Detudamo | |
| Victor Eoaeo | Re-elected | |
| Yaren | Joseph Detsimea Audoa | Re-elected |
| Source: Department of External Territories [3] | ||
The Victorian Greens, officially known as the Australian Greens Victoria, is the Victorian state member party of the Australian Greens, a green political party in Australia.
Marcus Ajemada Stephen is a Nauruan politician and former sportsperson who previously was a member of the Cabinet of Nauru, and who served as President of Nauru from December 2007 to November 2011. The son of Nauruan parliamentarian Lawrence Stephen, Stephen was educated at St Bedes College and RMIT University in Victoria, Australia. Initially playing Australian rules football, he opted to pursue the sport of weightlifting, in which he represented Nauru at the Summer Olympics and Commonwealth Games between 1990 and 2002, winning seven Commonwealth gold medals.
The Parliament of Nauru has 19 members, elected for a three-year term in multi-seat constituencies. The President of Nauru is elected by the members of the Parliament. The number of seats was increased to 19 following elections in 2013.
Baron Divavesi Waqa is a Nauruan politician who currently serves as the secretary-general of the Pacific Islands Forum. He was the President of Nauru from 11 June 2013 until 27 August 2019. He previously served as Minister of Education from 2004 to 2007.
Early parliamentary elections were held in Nauru on 19 June 2010 after the previous parliamentary election in April 2010 had resulted in a deadlock between government and opposition, tied at nine seats each. This led to an extended state of emergency in Nauru as a result of this election.
Parliamentary elections were held in Nauru on 6 December 1980. As there were no political parties, all candidates ran as independents. The election was won by supporters of President Hammer DeRoburt, who re-elected him President on 9 December.
The District Council (Second) functional constituency was a functional constituency in the elections for the Legislative Council of Hong Kong which was created in the 2012 constitutional reform package. It was the largest functional constituency consisted of registered voters who were not eligible for voting in the other functional constituencies.
Elections for the Local Government Council were held for the first time in Nauru on 15 December 1951.
Elections for the Local Government Council were held in Nauru on 10 December 1955.
Elections for the Local Government Council were held in Nauru in late 1963. All nine incumbent councillors were re-elected.
Elections for the Legislative Council for the Territory of Nauru were held for the first and only time on 22 January 1966.
The 1959 Wellington City mayoral election was part of the New Zealand local elections held that same year. In 1959, elections were held for the Mayor of Wellington plus other local government positions including fifteen city councillors. The polling was conducted using the standard first-past-the-post electoral method.
Elections to Southampton City Council took place on Thursday 2 May 2019, alongside other local elections across the country. The Labour Party held a narrow majority of two at the last election and the seats contested in this election were last contested in 2015. Labour were defending 6 seats, the Conservatives were defending 8, whilst independent councillors, who held two seats, were not standing re-elections. Following a by-election in the Coxford ward where Labour gained the seat formerly held by an independent.
Lionel Rouwen Aingimea is a Nauruan lawyer and politician. He served as President of Nauru from 2019 to 2022. He currently serves as Deputy Speaker of the Parliament of Nauru.
Austin Bernicke was a Nauruan politician. He was a member of the first Local Government Council in 1951, then a member of Parliament after it was established in 1966, serving until his death in 1977. He also served as a cabinet minister from 1968 until 1976.
James Ategan Bop was a Nauruan politician. He served as a member of Parliament and its predecessors from 1951 to 1955 and then from 1959 until his death, and was Minister of Finance for most of the period between 1968 and 1978.
Parliamentary elections were held in Nauru on 24 September 2022 to elect all 19 members of parliament. All candidates were elected on a non-partisan basis. Following the election, Russ Kun, a member of parliament for Ubenide, was elected president by parliament.
Samuel Edwin Tsitsi was a Nauruan politician.
Totouwa Depaune was a Nauruan politician. He served as minister of public works and community services in 1978.
Roy Demanganuwe Degoregore was a Nauruan politician.
