American Samoa 2009 General Election

The Green Papers: American Samoa 2009 General Election

This page is for offices up for election in 2009. Find 2010 elections here.

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American Samoa
Elections for Statewide offices and Congress

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.

Should no candidate receive 50% of the vote in the General Election, the two top vote-getters will participate in a Runoff.



Governor 4 year term, Election Cycle: 2008, 2012. 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, re-elected: 2008. Lt. Governor Ipulasi Aitofele Sunia • Seat up for election: Tuesday 6 November 2012 • 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 through 2008 identified themselves as "Independent" although they have ties to the US Republican Party.

Delegate to the House of Representatives 2 year term, Election Cycle: 2008, 2010. Elections in American Samoa are officially non-partisan.

{map}		Democratic	Territorial Delegate Eni F.H. Faleomavaega • First elected: 1988; re-elected 1990, 1992, 1994, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008 • Seat up for election: Saturday 6 November 2010
	Non-voting Delegate to the U.S. House of Representatives. A candidate must receive a majority of the popular vote in order to be elected as Delegate to the House. A runoff election is scheduled in the event that no candidate receives the requisite majority.

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
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 a legal election authority that the person has been officially certified to appear on the ballot.

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