Dekow Barrow of UDA was named MP for Garissa Township.

For the Garissa Township constituency, Dekow Barrow Mohammed of UDA has been named the new member of parliament.

Five other candidates, including UDM’s Nassir Dolal Mohammed, were defeated by Dekow.

According to preliminary data, Dakow received 11,572 of the 21,096 total votes cast.

Nassir Dolal Mohamed alias Jofle of the UDM finished second with 8,158 votes, while the other contenders received fewer than 1000 votes before day’s end.

All 103 voting locations returned a total of 122 rejected ballots.