{"id":55315,"date":"2024-04-05T16:57:37","date_gmt":"2024-04-05T16:57:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/liberia\/all-news\/nec-declares-campaigns-open-ahead-of-by-elections"},"modified":"2024-04-05T18:13:23","modified_gmt":"2024-04-05T18:13:23","slug":"nec-declares-campaigns-open-ahead-of-by-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/liberia\/all-news\/nec-declares-campaigns-open-ahead-of-by-elections","title":{"rendered":"NEC declares campaigns open ahead of by-elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Liberia. <\/strong><\/span>The upcoming by-elections are intended to fill vacancies created in Grand Gedeh County District #1 by the death of Representative-elect Erol Madison Gwion and in Nimba County by the election of Vice President Jeremiah Koung.<\/p>\n<p>Monrovia, 4 April 2024, Tuesday: The National Elections Commission (NEC) on Thursday, 4 April 2024, declared the Political Campaign open for the Representative By-Elections in District #1 Grand Gedeh County and the Senatorial By-Election in Nimba County. Both By-elections will be held simultaneously on 23 April 2024. The Commission says the political campaign will end on 20 April 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Candidate Nomination exercise, which began on 6 March 2024, ended on 19 March 2024 with a total of 19 aspirants qualified as candidates to run in both By-elections. The final listing of 19 Candidates was published on 4 April 2024. (Nimba Senatorial-4 candidates) and (District number 1 Grand Gedeh, Representatives-15 candidates).<\/p>\n<p>The commission replaced lost and damaged voter ID cards from 20 to 25 March 2024, with 141 voter ID cards replaced in both Nimba County (84 cards) and District #1 Grand Gedeh County (57 cards).<\/p>\n<p>The Commission launched its Civic and Voter education simultaneously in both counties when the NEC began distributing CVE materials to citizens in Nimba and District Number 1 in Grand Gedeh. CVE and gender-related materials are also being distributed in the counties.<\/p>\n<p>The Commission says 327 661 registered voters are expected to exercise their franchise in the Nimba Senatorial By-election (307 254 registered voters) and the district number 1 representative By-election in Grand Gedeh (20 407 registered voters).<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/liberia\">Liberia<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Liberia. The upcoming by-elections are intended to fill vacancies created in Grand Gedeh County District #1 by the death of Representative-elect Erol Madison Gwion and in Nimba County by the election of Vice President Jeremiah Koung. 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