Staff Reporter
THE Electoral Commission of Namibia (ECN) has declared Swapo Party candidate Moses Khumub the winner of yesterday’s Guinas Constituency by-election.
From a total of 4,178 registered voters, 2,034 cast their votes. Of these, 2,012 votes were counted, while 22 were rejected.
Swapo’s Moses Khumub secured 1,407 votes, while his brother, Fransiskus Khumub of the Landless People’s Movement (LPM), garnered 612 votes.
The by-election was necessitated by the death of Councillor Elias Marthinu (Swapo) on 21 October last year. The late Marthinu obtained 1,268 votes in the 2020 regional elections, defeating the IPC’s Heita Pineas, who garnered 95 votes.
