2014 Gaga'ifomauga by-election

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2014 Gaga'ifomauga by-election
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Constituency of Gagaʻifomauga
 First partySecond partyThird party
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HRPP
HRPP
Candidate Ale Vena Ale Lavea IetiTaito Vaea Tanu
Party HRPP HRPP HRPP
Popular vote1,045232198
Percentage27.24%23.58%20.12%
 Fourth partyFifth party
 
HRPP
TSP
Candidate Ga'ina Tino Lavea Peseta Nafo'i
Party HRPP TSP
Popular vote185101
Percentage18.80%10.26%
MP before election

Anitele'a Tuilo'a
HRPP

Subsequent MP

Faimalotoa Kika Stowers
HRPP

A by-election was held in the Gaga'ifomauga no.1 constituency in Samoa on 15 August 2014. [1]

Contents

The Gaga'ifomauga no.1 seat in the Legislative Assembly had been held by Tuilo'a Anitele'a Tuilo'a for the Human Rights Protection Party in the 2011 general election; he had first won it in 2006. During the 15th Parliament, he served as an associate minister in the Ministry for Women, Community and Social Development. He died of kidney failure on 9 June 2014. [2]

Despite it being a single seat constituency, the ruling Human Rights Protection Party, as often, nominated several candidates - in this instance, four: Ga'ina Tino (a former Minister for Justice), Faimalotoa Kolotita Stowers (former Director and CEO of the Samoa Broadcasting Service), Lavea Ieti, and Taito Vaea Tanu. [1] This despite having nominated only one candidate in the constituency in the 2011 general election. [3] The opposition Tautua Samoa Party chose a single candidate: Lavea Peseta Lua Nafo'i. [4]

Results

Kolotita Stowers, the only woman among the five candidates, was elected - bringing to three the number of women in the 15th Samoan Parliament. The Tautua Samoa Party candidate finished last. [5]

Gaga'ifomauga by-election, 2014
PartyCandidateVotes%
HRPP Faimalotoa Kika Stowers 26827.24
HRPP Lavea Ieti23223.58
HRPP Taito Vaea Tanu19820.12
HRPP Ga'ina Tino 18518.80
TSP Lavea Peseta Nafo'i10110.26
HRPP hold

2011 results

2011 Samoan general election in Gaga'ifomauga no.1 constituency [3]
PartyCandidateVotes%
HRPP Anitele'a Tuilo'a 50461.1
Independent Aukusitino Gaiga32138.9
HRPP hold

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