{"id":185666,"date":"2014-11-22T02:05:05","date_gmt":"2014-11-21T16:05:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=185666"},"modified":"2014-11-22T02:05:05","modified_gmt":"2014-11-21T16:05:05","slug":"inos-torres-gains-commanding-lead-runoff-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/inos-torres-gains-commanding-lead-runoff-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Inos-Torres gains commanding lead in runoff race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With a commanding lead of 1,599 votes, the tandem of Gov. Eloy S. Inos-Ralph Torres is a sure winner over Heinz Hofschneider-Ray Yumul team during Friday\u2019s gubernatorial runoff race, based on the unofficial results by the Commonwealth Election Commission.<\/p>\n<p>As there are only about 2,000-plus absentee ballots to be counted on Dec. 5, it is nearly impossible for Hofschneider-Yumul to overtake Inos-Torres\u2019 big lead.<\/p>\n<p>CEC\u2019s unofficial tabulation results show that Inos-Torres garnered a total of 6,547 votes, while Hofschneider-Yumul got 4,948, or a 1,599 difference.<\/p>\n<p>Inos-Torres won almost all precincts on Saipan and prevailed on Tinian and Rota, as well as on early voting. Hofschneider-Yumul won only in San Jose, Garapan, and San Roque.<\/p>\n<p>More details to follow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With a commanding lead of 1,599 votes, the tandem of Gov. Eloy S. Inos-Ralph Torres&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[242],"class_list":["post-185666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-commonwealth-election-commission"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185666","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\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185666\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}