Samoa House Race Ends
<i> Associated Press</i>
PAGO PAGO, American Samoa —
Eni Faleomavaega won reelection to a fifth term as American Samoa’s nonvoting member of the U.S. House. Faleomavaega received 6,321 votes, or 56.7%, in Tuesday’s runoff election, while Gus Hannemann, a former member of the American Samoa House of Representatives, got 4,871 votes, or 43.3%. The runoff was needed because neither candidate received more than 50% in the Nov. 5 general election.
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