David Tome

The Right Honourable David Tome MP
Member of Parliament for Baegu-Asifola
Incumbent
Assumed office 30 March 2011
Preceded by	Toswel Kaua
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Political party	Independent[1]

David Tome is a Solomon Islands politician.

Described as a "former agriculturist turned teacher", he was an independent candidate for the Baegu/Asifola seat in the August 2010 general election, and finished second of fourteen candidates, with 16.3% of the vote; he was defeated by the incumbent, independent MP Toswel Kaua. Kaua died three months later, and Tome won the resulting bye-election in March 2011, with 21.4% of the vote.^{[2] [3] [4]}

References

1. ^ "Solomons’ electoral official rejects accusations of briberyy during by-election". Radio New Zealand International. 5 April 2011. http://www.rnzi.com/pages/news.php?op=read&id=59808. Retrieved 27 September 2011. 
2. ^ 2010 general election results, Solomon Islands Broadcasting Corporation
3. ^ "Tome gets more votes", Solomon Star, 4 April 2011
4. ^ "Parliament Welcomes new Member for Baegu Asifolae", One Television, 4 April 2011

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Name	Tome, David
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