Botoe Kanneh, Senatorial Candidate, Gbarpolu County
Senatorial candidate Botoe Kanneh has been projected to win Gbarpolu County as polling watchers complete counting of ballot papers from the rerun election in Nomodatanau.
Kanneh, before the rerun election in Gbarpolu County electoral district 3, had been in the lead with 4,767 electoral votes, while her closest rival, Rep. Alfred Koiwood of the ruling Coalition for Democracy Change, had 4,281 votes from the 139 polling places out 144, according to data from the National Election Commission.
Though Kanneh’s lead against Rep. Koiwood has been slightly reduced, she is still expected to beat Rep. Koiwood, whose votes in the January 7, 2021 re-run were apparently not sufficient to surpass the only female candidate in the race. Preliminary results from Nomodatanau shows that Kanneh, who ran as an independent candidate, obtained a total of 188 votes while Koiwood got 217.