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ODM's candidate William Baraka Mtengo wins hotly contested by-election

Opposition leader Raila Odinga’s ODM party was last night poised to retain the Malindi constituency parliamentary seat following a tense vote. ODM’s William Mtengo had opened a wide lead over his closest challenger, Jubilee Alliance Party’s Philip Charo.

With 73 of the 100 polling stations reporting, Mr Mtengo had polled 15,582 votes against Charo’s 9,243.

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