Political party strength in Guam
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The following table indicates the party of elected officials in the United States
insular area
of Guam
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The table also indicates the historical party composition in the:
For years in which a presidential election was held, the table indicates which party's nominees won the island's presidential straw poll.
The parties are as follows: (D), (I), (NP), and (R).
United States
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insular area
Insular area
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of Guam
Guam
Guam is an organized, unincorporated territory of the United States located in the western Pacific Ocean. It is one of five U.S. territories with an established civilian government. Guam is listed as one of 16 Non-Self-Governing Territories by the Special Committee on Decolonization of the United...
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- Governor
- Lieutenant GovernorLieutenant Governor of GuamThe Guamanian self governing government consists of a locally elected Governor, Lieutenant Governor and a fifteen member Legislature. The current Lieutenant Governor is Ray Tenorio, who has been in office since January 3, 2011....
- Attorney General
The table also indicates the historical party composition in the:
- Territorial LegislatureLegislature of GuamThe Legislature of Guam is the territorial legislature of Guam. The legislative branch of the unincorporated U.S. territory is unicameral, with a single house consisting of fifteen senators, serving for a two year term...
- Territory delegation to the United States House of RepresentativesGuam's At-large congressional districtGuam's At-large congressional district comprises the entire area of the unincorporated territory of the United States. Guam has been represented in the United States House of Representatives by a non-voting delegate since 1973. It is currently represented by Democrat Madeleine Bordallo who has...
For years in which a presidential election was held, the table indicates which party's nominees won the island's presidential straw poll.
The parties are as follows: (D), (I), (NP), and (R).
Year | |Executive offices | |Territorial Legislature Legislature of Guam The Legislature of Guam is the territorial legislature of Guam. The legislative branch of the unincorporated U.S. territory is unicameral, with a single house consisting of fifteen senators, serving for a two year term... | |U.S. House Guam's At-large congressional district Guam's At-large congressional district comprises the entire area of the unincorporated territory of the United States. Guam has been represented in the United States House of Representatives by a non-voting delegate since 1973. It is currently represented by Democrat Madeleine Bordallo who has... | |Presidential straw poll | ||
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Governor | Lieutenant Governor Lieutenant Governor of Guam The Guamanian self governing government consists of a locally elected Governor, Lieutenant Governor and a fifteen member Legislature. The current Lieutenant Governor is Ray Tenorio, who has been in office since January 3, 2011.... | Attorney General | ||||
1969 | Carlos Camacho Carlos Camacho Carlos Garcia. Camacho was a U.S. Republican Party politician. He served as Governor of Guam from 1969 to 1975.... (R) |
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1971 | Kurt Moylan Kurt Moylan Kurt Moylan is a Guamanian politician who served as the first elected Lieutenant Governor of Guam.Moylan is one of four children born to businessman Francis "Scotty" Moylan and his wife, Yuk Lan Ho, who is of Hawaiian and Chinese descent... (R) |
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1973 | Antonio Borja Won Pat Antonio Borja Won Pat Antonio Borja Won Pat was the first Delegate from Guam to the United States House of Representatives.He was born in Sumay, Guam, and worked as a teacher. He was first elected to the Advisory Guam Congress in 1936. In 1951 he became speaker of the Guam Assembly. In 1965 he was elected as a... (D) |
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1975 | Ricardo Bordallo Ricardo Bordallo Ricardo Jerome "Ricky" Bordallo , U.S. Democratic Party politician, He served as Governor of Guam from 1975 to 1979 and from 1983 to 1987.- Early life :... (D) |
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1979 | Paul McDonald Calvo Paul McDonald Calvo Paul McDonald Calvo is a Guamanian politician. He was the third elected Governor of Guam. Calvo was born in Agana and attended George Washington High School in Guam. He then attended the Peacock Military Academy and Santa Clara University... (R) |
Joseph Franklin Ada Joseph Franklin Ada Joseph Franklin Ada is a U.S. politician.Born in Guam, Ada attended the College of Guam for two years before entering the University of Portland, where he graduated with a bachelor's degree in corporate finance in 1968. He served as the Republican Governor of Guam from 1987 until 1995. His running... (R) |
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1983 | Ricardo Bordallo (D) | Edward Diego Reyes (D) | ||||
1984 | Ronald Reagan Ronald Reagan Ronald Wilson Reagan was the 40th President of the United States , the 33rd Governor of California and, prior to that, a radio, film and television actor.... and George H. W. Bush George H. W. Bush George Herbert Walker Bush is an American politician who served as the 41st President of the United States . He had previously served as the 43rd Vice President of the United States , a congressman, an ambassador, and Director of Central Intelligence.Bush was born in Milton, Massachusetts, to... (R) |
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1985 | Vincente T. Blaz Vincente T. Blaz Brigadier General Vicente Tomás Blaz Garrido , also known as Ben Blaz, is a retired United States Marine Corps Brigadier General. Blaz served in the Marine Corps from 1951 to until July 1, 1980... (R) |
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1987 | Joseph F. Ada (R) | Frank Blas (R) | ||||
1988 | George H. W. Bush and Dan Quayle Dan Quayle James Danforth "Dan" Quayle served as the 44th Vice President of the United States, serving with President George H. W. Bush . He served as a U.S. Representative and U.S. Senator from the state of Indiana.... (R) |
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1992 | Bill Clinton Bill Clinton William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton is an American politician who served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. Inaugurated at age 46, he was the third-youngest president. He took office at the end of the Cold War, and was the first president of the baby boomer generation... and Al Gore Al Gore Albert Arnold "Al" Gore, Jr. served as the 45th Vice President of the United States , under President Bill Clinton. He was the Democratic Party's nominee for President in the 2000 U.S. presidential election.... (D) |
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1993 | Robert A. Underwood Robert A. Underwood Robert Anacletus Underwood was a Delegate from Guam to the United States House of Representatives.Underwood was born in Tamuning, Guam, and attended California State University, Los Angeles and the University of Southern California... (D) |
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1995 | Carl T.C. Gutierrez Carl T.C. Gutierrez Carl Tommy Cruz Gutierrez is a Guamanian politician.He has served at total of 10 terms in the Guam Legislature and ran unsuccessfully for Governor in 1978 , and again in 1986. Gutierrez was defeated by Governor Ricardo J. Bordallo and Lieutenant Governor Edward D. Reyes in 1986... (D) |
Madeleine Bordallo Madeleine Bordallo Madeleine Mary Zeien Bordallo is the Delegate from Guam to the United States House of Representatives.She was the first woman ever to serve as Guam's Delegate, Guam's first female Lieutenant Governor , Guam's first female candidate for Governor , and the first Democratic woman elected to the... (D) |
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2000 | George W. Bush George W. Bush George Walker Bush is an American politician who served as the 43rd President of the United States, from 2001 to 2009. Before that, he was the 46th Governor of Texas, having served from 1995 to 2000.... and Dick Cheney Dick Cheney Richard Bruce "Dick" Cheney served as the 46th Vice President of the United States , under George W. Bush.... (R) |
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2003 | Felix Perez Camacho Felix Perez Camacho Felix Perez Camacho is a former Governor of Guam and son of former Governor Carlos Camacho. He is a member of the United States Republican Party.... (R) |
Kaleo Moylan Kaleo Moylan Kaleo Moylan is a politician from the United States territory of Guam. He was Lieutenant Governor of Guam between January 2003 and January 2007. Before that, he was a senator in the Guam Legislature... (R) |
Douglas Moylan Douglas Moylan Douglas Moylan is the former Attorney General of Guam, 2002 - 2006.In 2006, Moylan lost the primary election, but decided to run as a write-in candidate. On the same day, the United States Supreme Court announced that it would hear Moylan's challenge of Guam's bond issuance... (NP/R) |
Madeleine Bordallo (D) | ||
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2005 | 9R, 6D | |||||
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2007 | Mike Cruz (R) | Alicia Limtiaco Alicia Limtiaco Alicia Garrido Limtiaco is the United States Attorney for Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands. She was sworn in on June 21, 2010. She was previously Attorney General of Guam, having been sworn in on January 1, 2007.... (NP/I) |
8R, 7D | |||
7R, 7D | ||||||
2008 | Barack Obama Barack Obama Barack Hussein Obama II is the 44th and current President of the United States. He is the first African American to hold the office. Obama previously served as a United States Senator from Illinois, from January 2005 until he resigned following his victory in the 2008 presidential election.Born in... and Joe Biden Joe Biden Joseph Robinette "Joe" Biden, Jr. is the 47th and current Vice President of the United States, serving under President Barack Obama... (D) |
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8D, 7R | ||||||
2009 | 10D, 5R | |||||
2010 | John Weisenberger John Weisenberger John Weisenberger was the attorney general of Guam from June 2010 to January 2011. He was appointed in 2010 to replace Alicia Limtiaco, who departed to become Guam's United States Attorney. He was replaced in January 2011 by Leonardo Rapadas, who was elected in November 2010.-External links:** from... |
9D, 6R | ||||
2011 | Eddie Calvo (R) | Ray Tenorio Ray Tenorio Raymond "Ray" Tenorio is a Guamanian Republican politician and former police officer. Tenorio has served as a Senator in the Legislature of Guam since January 2003... (R) |
Leonardo Rapadas Leonardo Rapadas Leonardo Rapadas is the current attorney general of Guam. He was elected in 2010, replacing John Weisenberger. Rapadas was sworn in on January 3, 2011, in Agana. Prior to serving as attorney general, he served as the United States Attorney for Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands from May 2003... |
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Year | Governor | Lieutenant Governor Lieutenant Governor of Guam The Guamanian self governing government consists of a locally elected Governor, Lieutenant Governor and a fifteen member Legislature. The current Lieutenant Governor is Ray Tenorio, who has been in office since January 3, 2011.... | Attorney General | |Territorial Legislature Legislature of Guam The Legislature of Guam is the territorial legislature of Guam. The legislative branch of the unincorporated U.S. territory is unicameral, with a single house consisting of fifteen senators, serving for a two year term... | |U.S. House Guam's At-large congressional district Guam's At-large congressional district comprises the entire area of the unincorporated territory of the United States. Guam has been represented in the United States House of Representatives by a non-voting delegate since 1973. It is currently represented by Democrat Madeleine Bordallo who has... | |Presidential straw poll |
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See also
- Government and politics in Guam
- Politics of GuamPolitics of GuamPolitics of Guam takes place in a framework of a presidential representative democratic system, whereby the Governor is head of government, and of a multi-party system...
- Elections in GuamElections in GuamElections in Guam gives information on election and election results in Guam.Guam elects on territorial level a governor and a legislature with the governor elected for a four year term by the people...
- List of political parties in Guam