American Samoa 2006 Midterm Election

The Green Papers: American Samoa 2006 Midterm Election

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American Samoa
Elections for Statewide offices and Congress
General Election: Tuesday 7 November 2006

Governor:	0
Senators:	0
2002-2010 Representatives:	0	(0.00% of 435)
Estimated Voting age population (November 2000):
Capital:	Fagatogo (formerly "Pago Pago")

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American Samoa State and Local Government

Political parties are not officially utilized in elections in American Samoa.



Governor 4 year term, Election Cycle: 2004, 2008. Term Limit: Two consecutive terms. Territorial Governor

		Democratic	Governor Togiola T.A. Tulafono • Acting Goveror: 2003 (remaining officially Lieutenant Governor after the death of Governor Tauese Sunia on 26 March 2003). First elected to a full term: 2004. Lt. Governor Ipulasi Aitofele Sunia • Seat up for election: Tuesday 4 November 2008 • The current Governor is unaffected by the State's term limit.
	The current Administration informally identifies itself with the US Democrats. The major opponents to the Sunia/Tulafono ticket in both 1996 and 2000 and to the Tulafono/Sunia ticket in 2004 identified themselves as "Independent" although they have ties to the US Republican Party.

Delegate to the House of Representatives 2 year term, Election Cycle: 2004, 2006. Elections in American Samoa are officially non-partisan.

{map}		Democratic	Territorial Delegate Eni F.H. Faleomavaega • Re-elected Tuesday 7 November 2006 • First elected: 1988; re-elected 1990, 1992, 1994, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004 • Seat up for election: Tuesday 7 November 2006

		Nonpartisan; (Democratic)	5,195	47.09%	Territorial Delegate Eni F.H. Faleomavaega • FEC: $42,587
		Nonpartisan; (Republican)	4,493	40.72%	Aumua Amata (Amata Coleman Radewagen) Coleman • FEC: $13,990
		Nonpartisan; (Independent)	1,345	12.19%	Muavaefaatasi Ae Ae, Jr. • FEC finanical report not available
Total			11,033	100.00%

Political Parties Parties appear in parenthesis and italics when a candidate receives the endorsement of a given Party and/or official sources indicate a candidate's association with a particular Party but only where the Party in question does not appear on the actual ballot as such.

Major Parties
	• Democratic (affiliates): 2 incumbents, 1 candidate
	• Republican: 1 candidate
Independents
	• Independent: 1 candidate
	• Nonpartisan: 3 candidates
Candidates running under the banner of more than one party are counted towards each party's total. A candidate who has lost a primary or is apparently no longer a candidate is not counted.

Notes

Candidates for office appear on this page in italics where 'The Green Papers' does not yet have independent confirmation from an election authority that this candidate is actually on the ballot.

FEC indicates the Federal Election Commission (FEC) Campaign Finance Summary "Total Receipts" for candidates for Federal Office.