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Africa-Press – Uganda. <\/strong><\/span>The ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) candidate, Mr Herbert Edmund Ariko has been declared as the duly elected Member of Parliament for Soroti East Division following Thursday\u2019s hotly contested by-election.<\/p>\n

Ariko got 9,407 votes while his closest contender, Moses Attan of the opposition Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) got 8,771 votes.<\/p>\n

Uganda People\u2019s Congress (UPC) candidate Pascal Amuriat garnered 115 votes in the Thursday polls that were characterized by high presence of the armed forces and massive arrests of FDC members, including the party president Patrick Amuriat.<\/p>\n

There were also reports of voter bribery the day before and ballot stuffing on polling day which saw four suspects arrested.<\/p>\n

Soroti East returning officer, Ms Christine Eyu said the total number of valid votes cast for candidates were 18,293 with 107 spoilt ballot papers.<\/p>\n

“Having added up the number of votes cast as recorded on each declaration of results form in accordance with Section 53 of the Parliamentary Elections Act, I declare that Herbert Ariko Edmund who has obtained the largest number of votes to be the elected candidate for Soroti East Division constituency,” Ms Eyu said Thursday evening.<\/p>\n

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Africa-Press – Uganda. The ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) candidate, Mr Herbert Edmund Ariko has been declared as the duly elected Member of Parliament for Soroti East Division following Thursday\u2019s hotly contested by-election. Ariko got 9,407 votes while his closest contender, Moses Attan of the opposition Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) got 8,771 votes. 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