Ongo Niua 17

How the result reads

Lata‘ifaingata‘a Tangimana finished first in Ongo Niua 17 with 540 formal votes, or 64.29% of the constituency total. A share above 60 per cent gave Lata‘ifaingata‘a Tangimana a clear majority of the formal vote.

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.