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Results by voting district: Eloy Inos: 50–55% 55–60% 60–65% 65–70% >95% Heinz Hofschneider: 50–55% | ||||||||||||||||||||
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The 2014 Northern Mariana Islands gubernatorial election was held on November 4, 2014, to elect the Governor and Lieutenant Governor of the Northern Mariana Islands. As no candidate received a majority of the vote, a run-off election was held 14 days later. Incumbent Republican Governor Eloy Songao Inos and running mate Ralph DLG. Torres were elected.[1] Inos, who served as lieutenant governor from 2009 to 2013, first became Governor following the resignation of his predecessor, Benigno Fitial.[2]
The previous gubernatorial election was held in 2009 for a 5-year term,[3] in order to move all elections to even numbered years. Covenant Party candidate Benigno Fitial won re-election. His running mate, Eloy Inos, was elected to his first full term as lieutenant governor. Fitial resigned as governor in February 2013 in the face of impeachment hearings.[2][4] Inos thus succeeded him governor. In September 2013, Inos, then a member of the Covenant Party, took steps to merge the Covenant Party with the territorial Republican Party, and ran for re-election as a Republican.[5]
Candidate | Running mate | Party | First round | Second round | |||
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Votes | % | Votes | % | ||||
Eloy Songao Inos | Ralph Deleon Guerrero Torres | Republican | 6,342 | 45.96% | 6,547 | 56.96% | |
Heinz Sablan Hofschneider | Ray Naraja Yumul | Independent | 4,501 | 32.62% | 4,948 | 43.04% | |
Juan Nekai Babauta | Juan Sablan Torres | Independent | 2,414 | 17.50% | |||
Edward Masga Deleon Guerrero | Daniel Ogo Quitugua | Democratic | 541 | 3.92% | |||
Total | 13,798 | 100% | 11,495 | 100% | |||
Source: Commonwealth Election Commission |