Elias Rangamar is an independent member of the Northern Mariana Islands House of Representatives, representing District 3 (Saipan and the Northern Islands). Rangamar was first elected in the November 5, 2024, general election, filing as an independent candidate in August 2024 and finishing third among the candidates for the precinct’s six House seats with 1,511 votes. Rangamar took office as a first-term member of the 24th Commonwealth Legislature in January 2025.1
Rangamar, whose full name is Elias Jerome Malite Rangamar, came to the legislature from a long career in sports and youth programs on Saipan. Rangamar worked as an athletics instructor and has coached track and field in the Northern Marianas since at least the early 2000s, serving as a development coach with the islands’ track and field federation and later with Northern Marianas Athletics. Rangamar was named a local Coach of the Year in 2008 for work in basketball and athletics, was part of the coaching staff when Saipan hosted the Oceania Area Championships that year, and attended an international sprints and hurdles coaching course in Australia. Rangamar served as head coach of the commonwealth’s athletics team at the 2024 Micronesian Games in the Marshall Islands, shortly before the House campaign.
