General elections were held in Western Samoa on 15 November 1957. A Constitutional Convention was held in 1954, which recommended the merger of the 41-member...
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General elections were held in Western Samoa on 4 February 1961. They had originally been planned for November 1960, but were postponed by three months...
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Assembly (Samoan: Fono Aoao Faitulafono a Samoa), also known as the Parliament of Samoa (Samoan: Palemene o Samoa), is the national legislature of Samoa, seated...
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the results of the 2021 general election. On 23 July 2021, the Samoan Court of Appeal ruled that the Faʻatuatua i le Atua Samoa ua Tasi (FAST) party had...
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Forty-seven are elected from ethnic Samoan territorial constituencies; the other two are chosen by the Samoan citizens of non-Samoan origin on a separate electoral...
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Annotated, American Samoa Bar Association. F. J. H. Grattan (1948). "The Organisation of Samoan Society". An Introduction to Samoan Custom. Papakura: R...
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Alfred Smyth (politician) (redirect from Alfred Smyth (Samoan politician))
George Smyth (17 June 1879 – 27 October 1959) was a New South Wales-born Western Samoan politician. Smyth was born in Maitland, New South Wales and attended...
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have to renounce their nationality at a time when the Samoan state did not exist. In the 41 Samoan constituencies, only twelve had more than three candidates...
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Fiamē Naomi Mataʻafa (category Attorneys general of Samoa)
April 1957) is a Samoan politician and High Chief (matai) who has served as the seventh Prime Minister of Samoa since 2021. The daughter of Samoa's first...
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diet, "O le Kuka Samoa," on 16 October 2000 with Samoan comedian Sumeo, alias "O le King Kuka," and was aimed at rejuvenating Samoan cultural food practices...
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Asiata Lagolago (category Samoan educators)
was a Western Samoan politician. He served as Minister for Agriculture between 1961 and 1964, and as a member of the Legislative Assembly from 1957 until...
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telling the people of Samoa that the government had failed miserably." Following the ousting of the HRPP in the 2021 Samoan general election, new Health Minister...
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Ombudsman. Universal suffrage was achieved in 1991 for all Samoan citizens aged 21 years and over. Samoan tradition is incorporated into the electoral system...
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Percy Lewis McDonald Morgan (category Samoan civil servants)
McDonald Morgan was a New Zealand-born Western Samoan politician. Born in New Zealand, Morgan emigrated to Western Samoa. He originally worked in the civil...
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Landslide victory (redirect from Landslide election)
with 85% of the vote. State and territory elections: 2021 Western Australian state election – Mark McGowan led the Labor Party to win 53 out of the 59...
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Archaeology of Samoa began with the first systematic survey of archaeological remains on Savai'i island by Jack Golson in 1957. Since then, surveys and...
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Amoa Tausilia (category Samoan educators)
Amoa Lolesio Tausilia (born 24 August 1922) was a Western Samoan chief and politician. He served as Speaker of the Legislative Assembly from 1961 to 1967...
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of the Legislative Assembly of Western Samoa were elected on 15 November 1957. The 46 members consisted of 41 Samoans elected in single-member constituency...
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The 1991 General Elections. ISBN 9780731515462. "SAMOA: Parliamentary elections Fono - Legislative Assembly, 2001". "IPU PARLINE database: SAMOA (Fono )...
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Resolution 1192 (XII) of 12 December 1957, which established a formal pattern for distribution of seats on the General Committee. This was followed on 17...
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Fono of Faipule (category 1950s disestablishments in Western Samoa Trust Territory)
The Fono was abolished in 1957 by an amendment to the Samoa Act by the New Zealand government, which also increased Samoan representation in the Legislative...
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Tualatai County (redirect from Tualatai County, American Samoa)
Pratt, G. (1862). Samoan Dictionary: English and Samoan, and Samoan and English, with a Short Grammar of the Samoan Dialect. American Samoa: London Missionary...
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territories (American Samoa, Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands) are sometimes considered part of the Western United States. American Samoa is in Polynesia...
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Afoafouvale Misimoa (category Samoan civil servants)
returning to Western Samoa, Misimoa joined the civil service, working for the Department of Samoan Affairs. A keen sportsman, he founded the Samoa Rugby Football...
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singer and producer (b. 1957) (born and died in the Philippines) 9 May – Cam McCarthy, Australian rules footballer (Greater Western Sydney, Fremantle) (b...
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already citizens. Notwithstanding, some western states continued to bar Native Americans from voting until 1957. South Dakota refused to follow the law...
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February – 2025 Prahran state by-election 2025 Werribee state by-election 8 March – 2025 Western Australian state election 3 May – 2025 Tasmanian Legislative...
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The Samoan crisis was the major foreign policy event of Cleveland's first term, and that crisis ended with a tripartite protectorate in the Samoan Islands...
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Gilbert and Ellice Islands (category British Western Pacific Territories)
delivered in the Samoan language, due to the influence of the early LMS Samoan missionaries and the affinity of the Ellice language with Samoan. During 1935...
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founding ancestor came from the Samoan Islands. The name Funafati is derived from the word "Funa", which means "chief" in Samoan. Furthermore, the name of one...
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