74 students from Dr. Rita Hocog Inos Jr. Sr. High School voted in a mock election hosted by the school’s United States Government class last Friday. As part of a class project conducted every election season, 67.6% of students voted for former governor Ralph DLG Torres and his running mate Benjamin M. Jones Jr. 20.3% voted for Blas Jonathan Attao and Edmund Joseph Villagomez, while 12.2% named Lawrence Camacho and Edith Deleon Guerrero as Governor and Lieutenant Governor.
Meanwhile, 75.7% of students voted forJoaquin DLG Torres as CNMI Attorney General, while 14.9% of votes went to Robert Glass, and 9.5% went to Michael Evangelista.
For the delegate seat, Incumbent Congresswoman Kimberlyn King-Hinds took 78.4% of students’ votes, leaving 21.6% to Galvin Deleon Guerrero.
The mock election ballots mirrored the sample ballots of Precinct No. 7, allowing RHI student-voters to also vote for Rota’s Mayor, Senators, House of Representative, and Municipal Council.
3 seats were unopposed on Rota, leaving 100% of student voters advocating their support of the island’s incumbent Mayor Aubry M. Hocog as well as Rota’s Congresswoman to the House of Representatives, Julie Ogo. In addition, 86.5% of student-voters named Municipal Council Chairman Jonovan Lizama as the highest vote-getter, with Councilwoman Tillie Taimanao securing 77% of votes, and Councilwoman Sandra Masga with 74.3%.
Rota’s Senatorial seats were the only ones that faced opposition this season, with 3 candidates and only 2 seats available. 74.3% of student-voters give new political candidate Tito Hocog II a seat, along with current Senator Donald Manglona garnering 62.2%. Meanwhile, Independent senate candidate Robert Myers garnered 37.8% of student votes.
RHI’s mock election has been a combined class activity of the school since its debut in 2024, conducted after the school’s Great Race, a student-led public forum for future-voters to ask candidates questions that concern them.
However, due to the impacts of twin Super Typhoons followed by unpredictable weather patterns, RHI was unable to hold The Great Race, traditionally held during election years. Meanwhile, the school’s Mock Election was conducted via Google Forms, to allow for efficiency and to protect student instructional time.
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