2014 Gagaʻifomauga by-election

2014 Gagaʻifomauga by-election

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Constituency of Gagaʻifomauga
First party Second party Third party   HRPP HRPP Candidate Faimalotoa Kika Stowers Lavea Ieti Taito Vaea Tanu Party HRPP HRPP HRPP Popular vote 1,045 232 198 Percentage 27.24% 23.58% 20.12%   Fourth party Fifth party   HRPP TSP Candidate Gaʻina Tino Lavea Peseta Nafoʻi Party HRPP TSP Popular vote 185 101 Percentage 18.80% 10.26%
MP before election Aniteleʻa Tuiloʻa HRPP Subsequent MP Faimalotoa Kika Stowers HRPP

A by-election was held in the Gagaʻifomauga no.1 constituency in Samoa on 15 August 2014.^[1]

The Gagaʻifomauga no.1 seat in the Legislative Assembly had been held by Aniteleʻa Tuiloʻa for the Human Rights Protection Party in the 2011 general election; he had first won it in 2006. During the 15th Parliament, he served as an associate minister in the Ministry for Women, Community and Social Development. He died of kidney failure on 9 June 2014.^[2]

Despite it being a single seat constituency, the ruling Human Rights Protection Party, as often, nominated several candidates - in this instance, four: Gaʻina Tino (a former Minister for Justice), Faimalotoa Kolotita Stowers (former Director and CEO of the Samoa Broadcasting Service), Lavea Ieti, and Taito Vaea Tanu.^[1] This despite having nominated only one candidate in the constituency in the 2011 general election.^[3] The opposition Tautua Samoa Party chose a single candidate: Lavea Peseta Lua Nafoʻi.^[4]

Kolotita Stowers, the only woman among the five candidates, was elected - bringing to three the number of women in the 15th Samoan Parliament. The Tautua Samoa Party candidate finished last.^[5]