-NEC releases first provisional By-elections results
The opposition Liberty Party’s Senatorial candidate, Mr. Darius Dillon is in a commanding lead of the Montserrado County Senatorial By-elections, while the ruling CDC candidate, Mr. Abu Kamara is leading the opposition ALP candidate in the District 15 race, according to the provisional results released by the National Elections Commission in Monrovia on Wednesday.
NEC has promised to release the remaining results shortly, but the Chairman of NEC, Cllr. Jerome Korkoya told a news conference last evening, that his Commission is working within the legal timeframe required, calling for an end to “undue pressures on the Commission to announce results to stop doing so, because both the Elections Law and the Constitution guarantee the NEC 15 days as of the day an election is held to announce the results.”
Mr. Abu Mana Kamara of the ruling Coalition CDC has received 5,515 votes or 45.95 percent of all the votes tallied so far in Montserrado electoral District #15, while his closest rival, Telia Urey of the four collaborating political parties, received 4,540 votes or 37.89 percent.
Liberty Party’s Abraham Darius Dillon, who is backed byfour opposition collaborating political parties ( Unity Party (UP), Alternative National Congress (ANC), Liberty Party (LP) and All Liberian Party (ALP) received 53,270 votes or 53.88 percent, while Paulita C.C. Wie of the ruling Coalition for Democratic Change (CDC) obtained 36,531 votes or 36.95 percent of the total votes cast, Korkoya announced. The Commission, according to Korkoya, recorded 263 invalid votes of the 12,265 votes tallied for Montserrado District #15 Representatives with 12,002 being valid.
The official provisional results from NEC comes at a time when both the CDC and opposition candidates in both the Senate and Houses races have claimed victory.