19 Nov 2020

Guam's San Nicolas easily wins run off

1:09 pm on 19 November 2020

Guam delegate to the United States Congress, Michael San Nicolas, has easily won the runoff election.

Pacific Islands Times reports that Mr San Nicolas, a Democrat, got 59.6 percent of the votes cast, defeating former congressman Robert Underwood, in Tuesday's runoff election which had just a 31 percent voter turnout.

He got 10,326 of the 17,355 votes cast.

Guam has more than 55,000 registered voters.

Guam's re-elected Congressman, Michael San Nicolas

Guam's re-elected Congressman, Michael San Nicolas Photo: facebook

The Democratic Party said the recent victory by Joe Biden and Kamala Harris paved a promising path for Guam.