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2019 Ivirua by-election

Election in the Cook Islands

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 25, 2026
Entity authorityQ60543069 ↗
Source-derived summary

A by-election was held in the Cook Islands constituency of Ivirua on 21 January 2019. The by-election was called following the death of sitting MP Tony Armstrong.

The election was contested by four candidates: Agnes Armstrong, wife of former MP Tony Armstrong, for the Democratic Party; former deputy Prime Minister Teariki Heather for the Cook Islands United Party, Daryl Rairi for the Cook Islands Party, and independent Jason Teremoana. The by-election was won by Agnes Armstrong.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “2019 Ivirua by-election” as election in the Cook Islands. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA strong contextual entry point for chronology, institutions and public events when official records are distinguished from later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2019—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Ivirua, by-election and Election can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the history & society register because the source frames it as election in the Cook Islands. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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The record creator and administrative purpose are central evidence, because official documentation reflects both action and institutional priorities. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 25, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q60543069. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2019.

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This entry incorporates text from “2019 Ivirua by-election” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.