{"id":196824,"date":"2025-04-26T06:24:44","date_gmt":"2025-04-26T04:24:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-samuel-kogar-clinches-nimba-senate-seat-with-52-percent-of-vote\/"},"modified":"2025-04-26T06:24:44","modified_gmt":"2025-04-26T04:24:44","slug":"liberia-samuel-kogar-clinches-nimba-senate-seat-with-52-percent-of-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-samuel-kogar-clinches-nimba-senate-seat-with-52-percent-of-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: Samuel Kogar Clinches Nimba Senate Seat With 52 Percent of Vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">Sanniquellie \u2014 Samuel Kogar has been declared winner of the April 22, 2025, senatorial by-election in Nimba County, according to the National Elections Commission (NEC).<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">In its final report, NEC said the Movement for Democracy and Reconstruction (MDR) candidate received 62,136 votes, amounting to 52.08 percent of the total valid votes cast from all 736 polling places across the county.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"13\">Kogar&#8217;s closest rival, independent candidate Edith Gongloe-Weh, obtained 40,506 votes, or 33.95 percent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">NEC&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202504250253.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Liberia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/liberia\/\">Liberia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sanniquellie \u2014 Samuel Kogar has been declared winner of the April 22, 2025, senatorial by-election in Nimba County, according to the National Elections Commission (NEC). In its final report, NEC said the Movement for Democracy and Reconstruction (MDR) candidate received 62,136 votes, amounting to 52.08 percent of the total valid votes cast from all 736 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":196825,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1086],"tags":[258,256,11195,31956,4712,1107,257,2962,6720,9158,8545,8115,254,8588],"class_list":["post-196824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-clinches","tag-kogar","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-news","tag-nimba","tag-percent","tag-samuel","tag-seat","tag-senate","tag-south-africa-today","tag-vote"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196824\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}