Governor of Bayelsa State and candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Seriake Dickson, was Sunday night declared winner of the Bayelsa State governorship election.
Dickson won the election with a total of 134,998 votes,
He beat Timipre Sylva of the All Progressives Congress (APC) with 48,146 votes as declared by the Returning Officer of the election, Zana Akpagbu.
While there were 225,527 valid votes, the total number of votes rejected was 6, 647 while 232,167 was given as the total number of votes cast.
A re-run had been conducted in some polling units following the inconclusive nature of the December governorship election.
Some of the results as collated by our correspondent are as follows:
Nembe
Collation officer Dr. Victor Torubele
No of registered voters 4294
Accredited voters 2649
Votes scored APC 1400,
PDP 1160
Total valid votes 2574
Rejected votes 31
Total votes cast 2605
Ekeremor
Collation officer, Dr. Perekibina Beriweni
Total registered votes 9157
Accredited votes 3018
Votes scored APC 257, PDP 2695
Total valid votes 2968
Rejected votes 42
Total votes cast 3010
Ogbia
Collation Officer, Dr Anakwe
No of Registered voters 4344
No of accredited voters 1551
Votes scored APC 139, PDP 1290
Total valid votes 1449
Rejected votes 47
Total vote cast 1496
Sagbama
No of Registered voters 2005
No of accredited voters 326
Votes scored APC 111, PDP 180
Total valid votes 303
Rejected votes 21
Total votes cast 324
Brass
No of Registered voters 2255
No of accredited voters 1703
Votes scored APC 1679, PDP 05
Total valid votes 1696
Rejected votes 7
Total votes cast 1703
Yenagoa
Collation officer, Dr. Perekeme Bertola
No of registered voters 9560
Accredited Voters 1480
No of votes scored APC 448
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