2016 Kiribati presidential election

Presidential elections were held in Kiribati on 9 March 2016. The result was a victory for Taneti Maamau of the Tobwaan Kiribati Party, who received 60% of the vote, with Rimeta Beniamina (United Coalition Party, but nominated by Pillars of Truth) on 38.6% and Tianeti Ioane (also Pillars of Truth) 1.5%.[1][2]

2016 Kiribati presidential election

9 March 2016
 
Nominee Taneti Maamau Rimeta Beniamina
Party Tobwaan Kiribati Pillars of Truth
Popular vote 19,833 12,764
Percentage 60.0% 38.6%

President before election

Anote Tong
Pillars of Truth

Elected President

Taneti Mamau
Tobwaan Kiribati Party

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Results

Candidate Party Votes %
Taneti MaamauTobwaan Kiribati19,83359.96
Rimeta BeniaminaPillars of Truth12,76438.59
Tianeti IoanePillars of Truth4821.46
Invalid/blank votes168
Total33,247100
Registered voters/turnout
Source: Pina
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gollark: Or maybe they just check it for keywords automatically, who knows.
gollark: I assume most people would agree with (most of) those things, but just saying, effectively, "more good things, fewer bad things" isn't very meaningful. Maybe that's what you're going for, but I assume they might want you to say/make up more personal-scale things.
gollark: > a return to traditional moral valuesSounds vaguely worrying. But otherwise yes, I suppose. But that's not exactly... actionable?
gollark: Well, the societally accepted solution would be to make up some meaningless answer about it but then not actually do anything.

References

  1. Taneti Maamau declared new president of Kiribati Radio New Zealand, 10 March 2016
  2. Maamau becomes Kiribati president Archived 2016-03-11 at the Wayback Machine TRT World, 10 March 2016
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