UDA’s David Keter Bags Emurua Dikirr Constituency By-election

The United Democratic Alliance (UDA) candidate David Keter, popularly known as Dollarline, has won the contested Emurua Dikirr constituency by-election.

Keter secured 18,266 votes across the 94 polling stations in the constituency, defeating his closest challenger, Democracy for Citizens Party (DCP) candidate Vincent Kibet Rotich, who garnered 10,760 votes in the mini-poll.

Bomet-based lawyer Gideon Koech of the National Vision Party (NVP) finished a distant third with 190 votes as Desma Cherono of Party of National Unity (PNU) and Kipronoh Rotich of the Revolutionary Labour Party (RLP) garnered 80 and 62 votes respectively.

The results were officially announced by Returning Officer Caleb Gikonde at the Emurua Dikirr Technical Training Institute tallying centre on Thursday night, following a day-long counting exercise from the constituency’s 94 polling stations.

A total of 29,358 valid votes were cast in the by-election, while 177 ballots were rejected, out of the constituency’s 44,457 registered voters.

The by-election was conducted following the death of former Emurua Dikirr MP Johanna Ngeno, who lost his life in a plane crash in February this year.