 Talavou's constituency vastly outnumbered the Laupepa partisans but neither succeeded in gaining complete control over all of Samoa's districts.In 1868, the chiefs and orators loyal to Laupepa instituted a government based on the Western notion of parliamentary monarchy.Malietoa Laupepa was declared King of Samoa in 1869, and relocated his government seat from Malie to Matautu on the east shore of Apia Harbor.