SPLM candidates triumph in Lakes State elections – NEC

By Manyang Mayom

April 25, 2010 (RUMBEK) – The SPLM candidates in the Lakes State won all the executive positions of Sudanese presidency and southern Sudan governor and the state governor, said the state electoral body on Sunday evening.

According to the Final Election Results Summary released by the High Elections Committee in Lakes State, Yasir Arman, Salva Kiir and Chol Tong Mayay Jang are the winners of the five day elections in the country.

For the election of Sudan president, Yasir Saeed Arman carried the day in Lakes State with 135,268 votes, beating the incumbent president, Omer Hassan Ahmed Al-Bashir by over 70,000 votes. The later managed 65,089 votes while the candidate of the Popular Congress Party Abdalla Deng Nhial Ayom had 15,212 votes in his favour.

Six other presidential candidates had over 1000 votes while the remaining three candidates got less than 1000 votes.

The results of the election of Southern Sudan president show Salva Kiir Mayardit topping the list with 97.73% of the casted votes in his favour. The incumbent president of GoSS got 247,568 votes, far ahead of the leader of the SPLM-DC Lam Akol Ajawlin who managed 5,740, representing 2.26% of the valid votes.

Lakes State Governor’s results show Chol Tong Mayay Jang of the Sudan People Liberation Movement in the lead with over 200,000 votes ahead of his follower, Gabriel Kuc Abiei of African National Congress (ANC).

Chol Tong got 228,080 votes, representing 86.54% of validly counted votes, while Gabriel Kuc Abiei of ANC comes second with 26,040 votes.

Other candidates for the position of governor are Joseph Malwal Dong Riak of United Democratic Salvation Front (UDSF) who managed 4,995 votes, and Isaac Awan Maper Ater of National Congress Party (NCP) who had 4,435 votes.

Ms. Victoria Aluel Samuel Aru, a member to the Lakes State High Election Committee told Sudan Tribune that the remaining results will be released on Monday.

(ST)