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Titus Lotee of Kenya Union Party (KUP) has been declared the winner of Kacheliba parliamentary seat in West Pokot County.
Lotee defeated the incumbent Member of Parliament (MP) Mark Lomunokol, who ran on the United Democratic Alliance (UDA) Party.
Lotee got 20,073 votes against Lomunokol's 17,963 votes.
KANU's John Lokitare came third with 1,346 votes.
The outgoing Kacheliba MP, Mark Lomunokol, has served between 2013 and 2022.
Thirty-nine thousand three hundred and eighty-two (39,382) voters cast their ballots in the Kacheliba parliamentary election. This represents a voter turn-out of 77 per cent. The total registered voters in Kacheliba were 51,146.
Forty-one (41) votes were rejected in the Kacheliba parliamentary polls.
The winner, Lotee, served as West Pokot County's first deputy governor between 2013 and 2017. At the time, Simon Kachapin was the governor.
Kachapin has since made a comeback to the helm of West Pokot politics after defeating immediate former governor John Lonyangapuo in the August 9, 2022 General Election.
Kachapin, who ran on UDA ticket, got 85,476 votes against Lonyangapuo's 84,610 votes. Lonyangapuo ran on his KUP party ticket.
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