PAGO PAGO, American Samoa (The Samoa News\/PIR)\u2014Aumua Amata has been elected to serve as American Samoa\u2019s non-voting delegate to the U.S. House, unseating longtime incumbent Eni Faleomavaega. She is the first woman to be elected to represent American Samoa in the U.S. Congress.<\/p>\n
A veteran campaigner for the delegate seat, Amata, a declared Republican, now joins the majority GOP-controlled U.S. House and the U.S. Senate following Tuesday\u2019s mid-term elections across the United States.<\/p>\n
Amata\u2019s lead began with results from the polling stations in Manu\u2019a, followed by the absentee ballots\u2014which included local and off island ballots as well as Swains Islander voters, whose ballots were counted at the Election Office. Amata has dominated the Manu\u2019a polls in the past several elections.<\/p>\n
Of the 45 polling stations\u2014including the Election Office\u2014Amata won in 33 of the polling stations and tied with Faleomavaega at one polling station.<\/p>\n
Total votes counted in the delegate race stand at 10,246 with Amata getting 4306 (42 percent); Faleomavaega 31571 (30.8 percent); Togiola Tulafono 1,130 (11 percent); Mapu J. Jamias 652 6.47 percent); Meleagi Suitonu-Chapman 229 (2.2 percent); Tuika Tuika 201 (2 percent); Rosie Fualaau Tago Lancaster 268 (2.6 percent); Mark Ude 143 (1.4 percent); and Tua\u2019au Kereti Matautia Jr. 160 (1.6 percent).<\/p>\n
Amata was at her campaign center at Pulu\u2019s guest fale in Pago Pago when the results were read out, but declined to comment at this time when asked by a Samoa News reporter at the scene. (Fili Sagapolutele)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" PAGO PAGO, American Samoa (The Samoa News\/PIR)\u2014Aumua Amata has been elected to serve as American…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[167,65,57],"class_list":["post-184243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-american-samoa","tag-house","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}