Republicans have taken control of Guam’s governorship, according to the first, unofficial results of the 2026 US midterm elections, the Guardian reported on Wednesday.
Democrats picked up the Pacific territory’s non-voting seat in Congress, with voters electing Alicia Anne Garrido Limtiaco as Guam’s delegate to Washington, according to figures from the Guam Election Commission cited by the newspaper. The winning Republican ticket was led by Vicente Ada.
Guam is the first part of the United States to report because it lies on the far side of the International Date Line, where the US election day begins, the Guardian said.
Trump welcomed the outcome as a strong result for his party, the newspaper reported. In a post on his social media platform, he congratulated “Tony Ada”, said Guam had long been regarded as a Democratic stronghold and claimed Republicans also held a majority in what he called the State Senate. “Wow, hopefully that’s an indication for things to come!” he wrote.
Monitors in Lewiston
In Lewiston, two US Department of Justice monitors spent three hours at a polling station serving the city’s large immigrant communities, the Guardian reported, citing local officials.
Armed police were posted both inside and outside the Memorial Armory station, which is used by Somali, Angolan and Eritrean voters, according to election chaplains on duty there, the newspaper said.
Before observing the vote, the monitors questioned election wardens on how and where they had been trained, according to Steve Bannister, the station’s senior warden. “They were not obtrusive,” he said, according to the Guardian.
Bannister said the monitors were sent after reports of voter intimidation and suspected fraud during early voting in October. He understood that monitoring took place at every election, he said, but this time the federal government had been more open about it.
One chaplain, who did not want to be named, told the Guardian he could not recall justice department observers being sent to Lewiston at any previous election.
The newspaper said the deployment came against the background of Trump’s repeated claims of widespread election fraud, which he has made without evidence, and his attacks on the US Somali community, which he has accused of rampant fraud.
Last month, federal agents raided the home of Ilhan Omar, a Democratic member of Congress and one of the community’s best-known figures, amid allegations that her US citizenship was based on fraudulent paperwork submitted by her late father, the Guardian reported.
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