Gov. Ralph DLG. Torres and his running mate, Sen. Vinnie Vinson F. Sablan (R-Saipan), won the Nov. 8, 2022, general election, but failed to gain a majority vote, paving the way for a runoff race against Lt. Gov. Arnold I. Palacios and his running mate, Saipan Mayor David M. Apatang, according to the Commonwealth Election Commission’s unofficial tabulation results.<\/p>\n
The Torres-Sablan tandem of the Republican Party obtained 3,007 votes from early voting, 2,149 votes during Election Day, and 570 from absentee voting, for a total of 5,726 votes, or 38.84% of the total votes cast.<\/p>\n
Palacios and Apatang of the unified independent team received 2,129 from early voting, 2,204 from election day, and 557 votes from absentee voting, for a total of 4,890 votes, or 33.16% of the total votes cast.<\/p>\n
Rep. Christina E. Sablan (D-Saipan) and her running mate, Rep. Leila Havela Staffer \u00a0(D-Saipan), of the Democratic Party, came in third after obtaining 1,755 votes from early voting, 1,973 during Election Day, and 404 absentee votes, for a total of 4,132 votes, or 28.02% of the total votes cast.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Gov. Ralph DLG. Torres and his running mate, Sen. Vinnie Vinson F. Sablan (R-Saipan), won…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":379295,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1355,23795,94],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-379380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-election-update","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379380","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=379380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379380\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/379295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}