Photo: Frank San Nicolas / Guam Daily Post (archive)
Republican Tony Ada led Guam’s governor race by 1,020 votes in the final unofficial Election Day count, while Democrat Alicia Limtiaco defeated incumbent Republican James Moylan in the race for the territory’s nonvoting U.S. House delegate seat, according to local news reports. All results remain unofficial and subject to certification.
Ada and running mate E.J. Calvo received 15,945 votes, or 51.45%, compared with 14,925 votes, or 48.15%, for Democrats Therese Terlaje and Sabina Perez, The Guam Daily Post reported, citing the Guam Election Commission’s final unofficial tally.
The tally was released at about 1:30am Wednesday, November 4, in Guam, equivalent to 10:30am EST Tuesday, November 3. The result was available during the U.S. mainland’s Election Day morning because of the time difference.
The Terlaje-Perez campaign conceded at around 1:40am Guam time, The Guam Daily Post reported in a separate account. Ada told the newspaper that Terlaje had congratulated him and Calvo, and said the team would begin working through the transition with Gov. Lou Leon Guerrero’s administration.
Democrats take the delegate race
Limtiaco, a former Guam attorney general, received 15,645 votes to Moylan’s 14,983, a margin of 662 votes in the unofficial count. Pacific Island Times reported that Limtiaco defeated Moylan, who had sought a third term.
The delegate result made the election a mixed outcome for the parties, rather than a Republican sweep: Republicans led the governor race, while Democrats won the contest for Guam’s nonvoting seat in the U.S. House. That office is separate from the U.S. Senate.
Narrow Republican legislative edge
Republicans occupied eight of the top 15 positions in the Guam Legislature race, the Daily Post reported. If those standings are certified without change, Republicans would retain control of the 15-member territorial Legislature with eight seats to the Democrats’ seven, a one-seat majority.
Democratic Sen. Chris Barnett was the top vote-getter in the legislative contest, with 19,783 votes. The final unofficial tally recorded 31,414 ballots cast, representing turnout of 53.11% among Guam’s 59,146 registered voters, according to the Daily Post’s account of the commission figures.
The Guam Legislature is the territory’s own legislative body. These results do not determine control of the U.S. Senate and should not be read as a call on mainland congressional races.
The vote totals in this report come from the Daily Post and Pacific Island Times. JBizNews has not independently reviewed the commission’s primary results page. The final unofficial count is not a certified election result.
JBizNews Desk | Hagåtña, Guam
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