Teresita Santos

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Teresita Santos
Member of the Northern Mariana Islands Senate
from the Rota 1st district
In office
2015–2022

Teresita Apatang Santos (born October 25, 1959) [1] [2] is a politician from the Northern Mariana Islands and current Secretary of the Department of Public Lands. [3] She previously served as a member of the Northern Mariana Islands House of Representatives and as a member of the Northern Mariana Islands Senate. [4]

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Santos, a resident of the island of Rota, [5] is a member of the Republican Party, and represented the 1st Senatorial District. She was the Legislative Secretary of the Senate. She chaired the committee on Health and Welfare; she is the vice-chair of the committees on Education and Youth Affairs, Fiscal Affairs, and Judiciary, Government, and Law, and was a member of the committees on Rules and Procedure and Executive Appointments and Government Investigations. [6] She has spoken of the need to invest more money in the Commonwealth Healthcare Corporation to improve its hospital services. [7] As of 2017 she was the only woman sitting in the Senate. [8] Santos served in the House of Representatives alongside Felicidad Ogumoro and Janet Maratita; when the latter was sworn in for a new term in 2011 the three became the first three women to serve together in the House in the history of the Northern Mariana Islands. At the time she was an independent. [9] Her cousin is the former director of the Department of Public Safety on Rota, Felix M. Santos, who challenged her for her seat in the House in 2012. [5] In the 2022 general election, Santos ran to be Mayor of Rota. [10] Aubrey Manglona Hocog won the election while Santos finished third of five candidates. [11]

Electoral history

2009

House of Representative - District 7: Rota (1 seats) [12]
PartyCandidateVotes%
Independent Teresita Apatang Santos69553.50%
Independent Ross Hugh Songao Manglona60446.50%
Total votes1,299 100.00%

2012

House of Representative - District 7: Rota (1 seat) [13]
PartyCandidateVotes%
Republican Teresita Apatang Santos (incumbent) [a] 88258.96%
Independent Felix Mundo Santos61441.04%
Total votes1,496 100.00%
Republican hold

2014

Rota 1st Senatorial District (2 seats) [14]
PartyCandidateVotes%
Republican Teresita Apatang Santos 78628.17%
Republican Steven King Mesngon68724.62%
Independent Paul Atalig Manglona 63322.69%
Independent Jovita Maratita Taimanao (incumbent)49217.63%
Independent Tom Glenn A. Quitugua1926.88%
Total votes2,790 100.00%

2018

Rota 1st Senatorial District (2 seats) [15]
PartyCandidateVotes%
Independent Teresita Apatang Santos (incumbent)62821.55%
Republican Victor Borja Hocog 57019.56%
Republican Felix Mundo Santos54018.53%
Independent Albert Atalig Taitano44215.17%
Independent Joel Gogue Charfauros39613.59%
Independent Jovita Maratita Taimanao33811.60%
Total votes2,914 100.00%

2024

Mayor - Rota [16]
PartyCandidateVotes%
Republican Aubry Manglona Hocog50534.95%
Independent Harry James Atalig Masga47032.53%
Independent Teresita Apatang Santos28819.93%
Independent Magdalena San Nicolas Mesngon15911.00%
Independent Alfredo Taisacan Taimanao231.59%
Total votes1,445 100.00%
Republican hold

Notes

  1. ↑ Teresita Santos switched her affiliation from Independent to Republican before the elections

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References

  1. ↑ "Inauguration of the Seventeenth Northern Marianas Commonwealth Legislature" (PDF). Northern Mariana Islands Commonwealth Legislature. January 11, 2010. p. 30. Retrieved May 12, 2024.
  2. ↑ Santos, Teresita (March 4, 2022). "Marianas Trench NMS nomination" (PDF). Letter to Kristina Kekuewa. NOAA. Retrieved April 14, 2024.
  3. ↑ Dela Torre, Ferdie (February 14, 2024). "Santos seeks Senate support to enable DPL to tap $1M settlement". Saipan Tribune. Retrieved April 14, 2024.
  4. ↑ Erediano, Emmanuel (February 23, 2024). "Former Sen. Santos appointed as DPL chief". Marianas Variety. Retrieved April 14, 2024.
  5. 1 2 Erediano, Emmanuel T. "Santos vs. Santos on Rota". Marianas Variety. Retrieved 30 November 2017.
  6. ↑ "Teresita Santos". Northern Marianas Commonwealth Legislature. Retrieved 30 November 2017.
  7. ↑ Marianas Variety. "Senator Santos: Let's invest in CHCC". Marianas Variety. Retrieved 30 November 2017.
  8. ↑ Representation2020.com. "CNMI and Guam - Report: Women still underrepresented in govt - Representation20/20". www.representation2020.com. Retrieved 30 November 2017.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  9. ↑ "Janet Maratita is sworn into office - Saipan News, Headlines, Events, Ads - Saipan Tribune". www.saipantribune.com. Retrieved 30 November 2017.
  10. ↑ De La Torre, Ferdie (June 13, 2022). "Santos to run as Rota mayor". Saipan Tribune . Retrieved April 24, 2024.
  11. ↑ "Official General Election Results Certified on November 11, 2022". Northern Mariana Islands Election Commission. November 11, 2022. Archived from the original on December 27, 2022. Retrieved December 27, 2022.
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