seat during the by-election  held yesterday.

UPND candidate Kapalasa Bampi  polled 8, 727 while the losing, ruling party (PF) candidate Mwachilele  Zax, a headman , got 7, 024 votes.

Meanwhile, Chishimba Kambwili’s party has suffered electoral set back after failing to win the local government by-election in Kitwe as many people had thought it would.

NDC  instead has cone out distant third

KITWE.

Lubwa ward

PF 1, 210 .

UPND 529.

NDC 213.