Opposition parties-backed candidate, Mr. Abraham Darius Dillon has broken record of Ambassador George Weah after he was declared winner in the Montserrado County Senatorial race on Friday.
According to the official final representing results from all 1, 790 polling places or 100 percent in the Montserrado County Senatorial elections, Mr. Dillon secured a total of 102,549 votes or 55.74 percent to Wie’s 63,971 votes or 34.77 percent.
In the 2014 Senatorial by-elections, George Manneh Weah won with 99,226 votes or 78% of the vote for the Montserrado county seat, when he defeated Robert Sirleaf, the son of former President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, who took just 11%.
District #15, tight race
In the controversial District No. 15 race, the opposition backed Telia Urey jumped ahead of Mr. Abu Kamara of the ruling Coalition for Democratic Change in the updated tally announced by NEC, accruing 5,573 votes or 42.68 percent to Kamara’s 5,417 votes or 41.48 percent.
Cllr. Korkoyah announced that due to investigation into allegations of discrepancies brought on by Telia Urey campaign team, the commission will announce the remaining twenty polling places upon completion of the investigation.
He added: “For the District No. 15 representative elections, we will announced provisional results from 74 of the 94 polling places representing results from 78.72 percent of the polling places in that district.
“Consistent with our procedures, results from the remaining 20 polling places which constitutes 21.4 percent of polling places are currently quarantined and would not be announced today, pending the outcome of the investigation into the complaints currently being conducted,” he declared.
This is Mr. Abraham Darius Dillon second time contesting the senatorial seat in Montserrado In 2009, he contested but massively lost to the late senator Geraldine Doe-Sheriff who won with nearly 90% of the total votes cast. However, some partisans of the CDC are suggesting that because Dillon is being backed by four major opposition parties, so it was no surprise to surpass then Montserrado County Senator George Weah record.
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