| Parliament name |
Congress |
| Structure of parliament |
Unicameral |
| BACKGROUND |
| Dates of election / renewal (from/to) |
3 March 2009 |
| Purpose of elections |
Elections were held for 10 single-member constituency seats in the Congress on the normal expiry of the members' term of office. |
At stake in the March 2009 elections were ten seats in the 14-member Congress. These seats are renewed every two years while the remaining four "at large seats" are renewed every four years. "At large" members are eligible to run for the post of President and Vice-President.
Following the previous elections held in March 2007 for all the seats in the Congress
Mr. Isaac V. Figir was re-elected as Speaker
while Mr. Manny Mori was elected as the country's new President.
Since there are no political parties in Micronesia
all 21 candidates for the ten seats in contention ran as independents. As was the case in all previous elections
no women ran. Although the Speaker had proposed a constitutional bill to introduce four "at large" seats reserved for women
it was not passed by the Congress before the 2009 elections.
At the invitation of the Government of the Federated States of Micronesia
the Asia Pacific Democracy Partnership (APDP) sent an 18-member observer mission to monitor the polls. The observers noted some irregularities and procedural inconsistencies
which were reported to the country's election officials.
On 16 March
the National Election Director certified the election results of nine of the ten new members. The results for the tenth seat were confirmed on 24 March after a recount.
The ten members joined the four "at large" members to hold the first session of Congress on 11 May 2009
at which Mr. Figir was re-elected as Speaker. |
| STATISTICS |
| Voter turnout |
| Distribution of votes |
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| Distribution of seats |
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| Distribution of seats according to sex |
Men
Women
Percent of women |
10
0
0.00%
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| Distribution of seats according to age |
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| Distribution of seats according to profession |
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| Comments |
Sources:
- Congress (11.03.2009
12.05.2009)
- http://www.fsmpio.fm/ |
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