Rua'au By-election 2003

Herausgegeben:Surhone, Lambert M.; Timpledon, Miriam T.; Marseken, Susan F.

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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Rua''au by-election was a by-election in the Cook Islands seat of Rua''au. It took place on 14 August 2003, and was precipitated by the death of Democratic Party MP Maria Heather. Three candidates contested the by-election: the Democratic Party''s Geoffrey Heather, husband of the former MP; the Cook Islands Party''s Vaine Wichman, and Cook Islands National Party leader Teariki Heather. The poll was won by Geoffrey Heather. The fifteen small islands in this South Pacific Ocean country have a total land area of 240 square kilometres (92.7 sq mi), but the Cook Islands Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) covers 1.8 million square kilometres (0.7 million sq mi) of ocean. The main population centres are on the island of Rarotonga (14,153 as of 2006), where there is an international airport. There is also a much larger population of Cook Islanders in New Zealand,particularly the North Island. In the 2006 census, 58,008 self-identified as being of ethnic Cook Island M ori descent.

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• Verlag: Betascript Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 120
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 220mm
• ISBN-13: 9786130442057
• ISBN-10: 613044205X
• Artikelnr.: 29911983