General elections were held in the
Pitcairn Islands
The Pitcairn Islands (; Pitkern: '), officially the Pitcairn, Henderson, Ducie and Oeno Islands, is a group of four volcanic islands in the southern Pacific Ocean that form the sole British Overseas Territory in the Pacific Ocean. The four isl ...
on 15 December 2004. Voters elected a
mayor
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, a
council chairman
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, and four councillors to sit on the
island council.
Results
Mayor
For the mayoralty,
Jay Warren
Jay Calvin Warren (born 29 July 1956) is a political figure from the Pacific territory of the Pitcairn Islands.
Political roles
Jay Warren was elected mayor of the last remaining British dependency in Oceania in the general election held on 15 ...
defeated
Mike Warren and the incumbent
Brenda Christian
Brenda Vera Amelia Lupton-Christian (born February 25, 1953) is a political figure from the Pacific territory of the Pitcairn Islands. When her brother Steve Christian was removed from the office of mayor following the 2004 Pitcairn child sexua ...
, who had held the office since 8 November in an interim capacity following Governor
Richard Fell
Richard Taylor Fell CVO (born 11 November 1948) was the British High Commissioner to New Zealand and the colonial Governor of the Pitcairn, Henderson, Ducie and Oeno Islands (of which only Pitcairn is inhabited) from 2001 to 2006.
He was educ ...
's dismissal of her brother,
Steve Christian
Steven Raymond Christian (born 26 June 1951, Pitcairn Island) is a politician, convicted sex offender and child rapist from the Pitcairn Islands. He was mayor of the islands from 1999 until 2004, when he was removed from office after being fo ...
, on 29 October following his
five rape convictions.
Islanders elect old guard
The Age, 16 December 2004
Council chairman
The chairmanship of the council was won by Mike Warren, who defeated Brenda Christian, Jay Warren and Pawl Warren.
Island council
The four ordinary councillors to be elected were Meralda Warren
Meralda Elva Junior Warren (born 28 June 1959) is an artist and poet of the Pitcairn Islands, a remote British Overseas Territory in the South Pacific. She works in both English and Pitkern, the island's distinctive creole language. Her book, '' ...
, Olive Christian, Carol Warren
Carol Grace Warren (born 3 April 1950) is a Pitcairn Islander. In 1973 she and Thelma Brown were elected to the Island Council, becoming its first female members.
Biography
Warren was born Carol Grace Christian in April 1950, the daughter of ...
and Lea Brown
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. Unsuccessful candidates included Brenda Christian, Jay Warren, Mike Warren, Pawl Warren, Tom Christian, Charlene Warren, Darralyn Griffith, Vaine Peu, Daphe Warren and Nola Warren.
Reaction
Speaking from his British High Commission office in Wellington
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, New Zealand
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, Deputy Governor Matthew Forbes
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told Radio New Zealand
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that he welcomed Jay Warren's election as mayor. "We appointed Jay as chairman of the (island's) internal committee in the period after the trials and before this election," Forbes said. "He's very experienced and I'm sure he'll make a very good mayor."
References
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Pitcairn
The Pitcairn Islands (; Pitkern: '), officially the Pitcairn, Henderson, Ducie and Oeno Islands, is a group of four volcanic islands in the southern Pacific Ocean that form the sole British Overseas Territory in the Pacific Ocean. The four isl ...
General election
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Elections in the Pitcairn Islands
Pitcairnese general election,2004
Pitcairn
The Pitcairn Islands (; Pitkern: '), officially the Pitcairn, Henderson, Ducie and Oeno Islands, is a group of four volcanic islands in the southern Pacific Ocean that form the sole British Overseas Territory in the Pacific Ocean. The four isl ...
December 2004 events in Oceania