{"id":275521,"date":"2016-12-08T14:22:32","date_gmt":"2016-12-08T14:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=275521"},"modified":"2016-12-08T14:22:32","modified_gmt":"2016-12-08T14:22:32","slug":"alban-bagbin-retains-seat-in-upper-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2016\/12\/alban-bagbin-retains-seat-in-upper-west\/","title":{"rendered":"Alban Bagbin retains seat in Upper West\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"
Majority Leader and incumbent Member of Parliament (MP) for the Nadowli-Kaleo Constituency of the Upper West Region, Alban Bagbin, has retained his seat.<\/p>\n
He polled 14,044 votes, beating his two other contenders, \u00a0Elvis B. Botah of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) \u00a0and\u00a0Bernard Mornah of the People’s National Convention (PNC) who polled 9,154 and 5,393 respectively.<\/p>\n
The Convention People’s Party’s (CPP) Emmanuel Nassal also polled 120 votes . The total number of valid votes cast was 28,711.<\/p>\n
Mr Bagbin during the NDC’s primaries polled 3237 votes in what was practically a three-candidate race, beating his closest challenger and university lecturer, Mr Roger Galee, and customs officer Salifu Dumbah who had 1696 and 1090 votes respectively.<\/p>\n