2017 Micronesian general election

2017 Micronesian general election

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10 of the 14 seats in Congress

Parliamentary elections were held in the Federated States of Micronesia on 7 March 2017, ^[1] alongside a referendum on allowing dual citizenship. Although the proposed constitutional amendment to allow dual citizenship was approved by a majority of voters, it did not pass the threshold of 75% voting in favour in at least three of the four states. ^[2]

Electoral system

The 14 members of Congress are elected by two methods; ten are elected in single-member constituencies by first-past-the-post voting for two year terms. The four at-large Senators are elected on the basis of one from each state, ^[3] for four year terms

Following the elections, the President and Vice-President are elected by the Congress, with only the four at-large Senators allowed to be candidates. ^[3]

Results

Congress

State	District	Candidate	Votes	%	Notes
Chuuk	Election District 1	Florencio Singkoro Harper	2,359	100	Elected unopposed
	Election District 2	Victor Gouland	3,793	69.08	Elected
		Tesime Kofot	1,698	30.92
	Election District 3	Derensio S. Konman	3,957	60.76	Elected
		Bonsiano Fasy Nethon	2,556	39.24
	Election District 4	Tiwiter Aritos	5,110	100	Elected unopposed
	Election District 5	Robson Romolow	1,346	51.43	Elected
		Williander D. Jack	772	29.50
		Mathias Kuor	499	19.07
Kosrae	Election District	Paliknoa K. Welly	1,538	97.16	Elected
		Write-in	45	2.84
Pohnpei	Election District 1	Femy S. Perman	3,156	60.88	Elected
		Merlynn Abello-Alfonso	2,028	39.12
	Election District 2	Dion G. Neth	1,511	26.05	Elected
		Berney Martin	1,401	24.15
		Francisco L. Ioanis	1,132	19.51
		Herman Semes Jr.	865	14.91
		Nixon B. Soram	535	9.22
		Naiten O. Phillip	357	6.15
	Election District 3	Esmond Moses	2,548	76.33	Elected
		Marstella E. Jack	790	23.67
Yap	Election District	Isaac V. Figir	2,281	83.31	Elected
		Fidelis Thiyer-Fanoway	457	16.69
Source: CFSM

Referendum

The constitutional amendment to allow dual citizenship was passed in all four states, but only by more than 75% of voters in Kosrae. ^[2]

State	For		Against
	Votes	%	Votes	%
Chuuk	12,735	61		39
Kosrae	2,694	85		15
Pohnpei	14,344	70.21		29.79
Yap	1,563	52		48
Total	31,336
Source: Kaselehile Press, Direct Democracy

References

1. Federated States Of Micronesia IFES
2. FSM voters go to the polls—Dual Citizenship again fails to pass voter scrutiny Kaselehile Press, 20 March 2017
3. Electoral system IPU