CONSTITUENCY 15 / 2025 RECORD
Vava‘u 15
The 2025 people’s representative election result.
The Vava‘u island group returns three people’s representatives.
ELECTED
‘Alani Petelo Tangitau
How the result reads
‘Alani Petelo Tangitau finished first in Vava‘u 15 with 848 formal votes, or 44.26% of the constituency total. ‘Alani Petelo Tangitau led the count without reaching 50 per cent. That is enough under first past the post, where the highest vote total wins.
The percentage belongs to this local contest. It is not a national vote share. Tonga’s 17 people’s seats are counted and decided one constituency at a time.
What stays on the record
The election result gives us a firm snapshot of polling day: the seat, the elected representative and the official count. It remains useful even as parliamentary work moves on.
Ministerial posts, committee assignments and a member’s status can change during a term. Those updates belong to a dated parliamentary record, rather than being written back into the original election result.
Check the published sheet
The source link below opens the Electoral Commission’s result sheet for this constituency. Readers can use it to check names, totals and the formal count against the original document.