PF in another treble electoral victory

The Patriotic Front (PF) has made it three out of three after scooping the Mulobezi, Malambo and Petauke Central parliamentary seats in yesterday’s by-elections.

Dora Siliya of the ruling PF in Petauke Central has reclaimed her seat with a landslide by polling 12, 830 votes while Allan Zulu of the UPND polled a 2, 331, with Ignasio Phiri of UNIP polling 259 votes.

Ms Siliya was declared winner at around 02:30 hours this morning.

Petauke Central constituency has seven wards and 53 polling stations with a total of 46,635 registered voters.

And Ms Siliya has told QFM News via telephone that she knew she would win the by-election.

Ms Siliya says she is delighted that the people of Petauke Central Constituency will once again have representation in parliament after two years of no representation in Parliament.

In Malambo constituency, PF Candidate Jacob Shuma polled 5, 566 votes to scoop the seat beating his closest rival of the UPND Simon Phiri who got 3, 842 votes, while Independent candidate Florence Mwayopa managed to poll 438 votes with UNIP’s Jairos Mchenga taking fourth place with 181.

Malambo constituency has 35 polling stations with 28,088 registered voters and a total of 10, 133 votes were cast with 106 votes rejected.

The parliamentary by-election in Malambo arose after then MMD MP Maxwell Mwale lost the seat over electoral malpractices committed in the 2011 general elections.

And the the PF cabdidate Patricia Mulasikwanda has scooped the Mulobezi seat in a tightly contested election beating his rival from the UPND Hastings Sililo.

Ms Mulasikwanda has polled 3, 337 votes against Mr Sililo’s 3, 313 votes.

UNIP’s Alfred Mandumbwa who has managed a paltry 81 votes, with Green party’s Esau Mwanza polling 61 and Collins Mbangu of Alliance for Democracy and Development (ADD) managing 69 votes.

Ms Mulasikwanda was declared winner by at about 08:00hrs.

The Mulobezi parliamentary seat fell vacant after the nullification of Mr Sililo’s election.