Landslide victory for Moses Kajwang' in Homa Bay

ODM's candidate Moses Kajwang assists his mother Dorcus Akumu Ajwang to vote at Waundo Primary School in Mbita during Homa Bay's senatorial by-election yesterday. 12/02/15. PHOTO: TITUS MUNALA/STANDARD

Homa Bay, Kenya; Orange Democratic Movement’s Moses Kajwang’ is the new Homa Bay senator-elect, beating his closest challenger Philip Okundi of the Maendeleo Democratic Party by over 80,000 votes, a landslide win by all means.

By the time of our going to press, Kajwang’ had 111,007 votes from 780 polling centres out of 816, while Okundi had 24,878 votes, with voter turn-out at 50 per cent.