1965 Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands parliamentary election

February 2025 Parliamentary elections were held in the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands on 19 January 1965.Annual Report of the High Commissioner of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands to the Secretary of the Interior, Fiscal Year Ended 1965 p13 Background Constitutional changes for the Trust Territory were made by an order from the US Secretary of the Interior on 28 September 1964.Congressional Record: Proceedings and Debates of the United States Congress, Volume 111, Part 12, p16441 A bicameral Congress was established, with a 12-member House of Delegates (later renamed the Senate) with two members from each of the six districts and a 21-member General Assembly (later renamed the House of Representatives) with seats apportioned to each district based on their population – five from Truk, four from the Marshall Islands and Ponape, three from the Mariana Islands and Palau and two from Yap.Micronesia To Go To Polls Pacific Islands Monthly, November 1964, p13 This replaced the previous Council of Micronesia, which had been based outside the Trust Territory in Guam.Meeting Will Discuss Plans for US Trust Territory Pacific Islands Monthly, October 1962, p143 Future elections were to be held every two years in November of even-numbered years, with all members of the General Assembly and half the House of Delegates renewed at each election. In the 1965 elections, half the Delegates (one from each district) were elected for a term ending in January 1967 (following the 1966 elections) and the other half elected for a term ending in January 1969 (following the 1968 elections). Campaign A total of 94 candidates contested the elections,Norman Meller (1969) The Congress of Micronesia: Development of the Legislative Process in the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands University of Hawai'i Press, p273 of which 28 were running in the House of Delegates elections, with six running in both Palau and Ponape, and four in the Marshalls, Marianas, Truk and Yap.In A Nutshell Pacific Islands Monthly, February 1965, p10 Although voting was meant to take place even where there was only one candidate, a misunderstanding led to Bethwel Henry being returned unopposed without a vote.Meller, p261 Results Of the 41,473 people thought to be eligible to vote, 35,506 registered to do so. Of these, 25,079 people voted.Annual Report of the High Commissioner of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands to the Secretary of the Interior, Fiscal Year Ended 1965 p18 Elected members House of Delegates DistrictMemberTermMarianasOlympio T. BorjaFour yearsJose R. CruzTwo yearsMarshallsIsaac LanwiFour yearsAmata KabuaTwo yearsPalauJohn O. NgirakedFour yearsRoman TmetuchlTwo yearsPonapeBailey OlterFour yearsEliuel PretrickTwo yearsTrukTosiwo NakayamaFour yearsAndon AmaraichTwo yearsYapFrancis NuuanFour yearsJoseph TamagTwo yearsSource: Annual Report, TTPI, TTPI General Assembly DistrictConstituencyMemberMarianas1st DistrictBenjamin Manglona2nd DistrictManuel D. Muna3rd DistrictJuan A. SablanMarshalls4th DistrictNamo Hermios5th DistrictHenry Samuel6th DistrictDwight Heine7th DistrictAtlan AnienPalau8th DistrictLazarus Salii9th DistrictSadang Ngiraeherang10th DistrictJacob SawaichiPonape11th DistrictElias Robert12th DistrictBethwel Henry13th DistrictMax Iriarte14th DistrictOlter PollTruk15th DistrictSmart Lampson16th DistrictPetrus Mailo17th DistrictSoukichi Fritz18th DistrictMitaro Danis19th DistrictChutomu NimuesYap20th DistrictLuke Tman21st DistrictJohn N. RugulimarSource: Annual Report, TTPI, TTPI Aftermath Following the elections, Tosiwo Nakayama was elected as the President of the House of Delegates.President Tosiwo Nakayama https://web.archive.org/web/20210807120236/https://gov.fm/index.php/fsm-presidents/1st-president 2021-08-07 Government of Micronesia On 15 October 1965 Dwight Heine resigned from Congress to become District Administrator of the Marshall Islands. A by-election was held in February and April 1966 which was won by Ekpap Silk.Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands Office of United Nations Political Affairs, pp198–199 Smart Lampson died on 13 June 1966; Naosy Pitiol was appointed to complete his term by the Acting Truk District Administrator. References Category:1965 elections in Oceania Category:1965 in the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands Category:Elections in the Federated States of Micronesia Category:Elections in the Marshall Islands Category:Elections in Palau Category:Elections in the Northern Mariana Islands Category:January 1965 in Oceania