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The Covenant Party was a political party advocating governmental and financial reform. It was named after the Covenant to Establish a Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands in Political Union with the United States of America, Act of Mar. 24, 1976, Pub. L. 94-241, 90 Stat. 263, codified as amended at 48 U.S.C. § 1801 note
The following table indicates the party of elected officials in the United States insular area of the Northern Mariana Islands: Governor; Lieutenant Governor; Attorney General (first elected in 2014). Resident Representative in Washington, D.C. (through 2008); non-voting delegate to the United States House of Representatives (beginning 2009)
Politics of the Northern Mariana Islands takes place in a framework of a presidential representative democratic system, whereby the Governor is head of government, and of a pluriform multi-party system. The Northern Mariana Islands is an unincorporated territory of the United States, and in a political union with it in the form of a commonwealth.
The Northern Mariana Islands House of Representatives is the lower house of the Northern Mariana Islands Commonwealth Legislature. The house has seven districts and five of the seven are Multi-member districts. The governing Democrat-Independent coalition is entering the 2024 election cycle with sixteen of twenty seats, an overwhelming majority ...
The CNMI Republican Party is a political party in the Northern Mariana Islands.The Northern Mariana Islands Republican Party is now associated with the United States Republican Party though no Northern Mariana Islands politicians have achieved high-ranking positions in the mainland United States.
Three of the 67 political candidates on the NMI are Democrats. [5] The party organized the 2020 Northern Mariana Islands Democratic caucuses. [6] In the 2020 elections, four incumbent representatives announced that they would run for re-election as Democrats. [7] The party is running 18 candidates, and supporting 3 independent candidates.
The Northern Mariana Islands Commonwealth Legislature has two chambers. The House of Representatives has 20 members (18 prior to 2007), elected for a two-year term in single-seat constituencies . The Senate has 9 members, elected for a two-year term in single-seat constituencies.
The United States became the TTPI's administering authority under the terms of a trusteeship agreement. In 1976, Congress approved the mutually negotiated Covenant to establish a Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands in Political Union with the United States of America. [76] The Covenant was codified on March 24, 1976, as Public Law 94 ...