The incumbent governor and candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Seriake Dickson has defeated All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate, Timipre Sylva in the keenly contested Bayelsa gubernatorial poll.
The election was earlier conducted on the 5th of December, 2015 but several cases of irregularities and violence forced the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to cancel the entire results in Southern Ijaw Local Government Area and parts of other LGAs and fixed a supplementary election for Saturday, January 9, 2016.
After counting was completed on Sunday and with the results of all the LGAs announced by INEC, Dickson scored a total of 134,998 votes to beat Sylva, who scored 86,852 votes.
Below is the final result of the election as announced by the Returning Officer, Zana Akpagbu:
Total registered voters
654493
Accredited voters
242114
Votes earned by political parties
ACPN 128
ADC 173
APA 578
APC 86852
APGA 178
CPP 60
DPC 189
DPP 231
ID 20
KOWA 16
LP 76
MPPP 21
NNPP 28
PDC 135
PDM 1572
PDP 134998
PPA 221
PPN 14
SDP 17
UPP 12
Total valid votes 225520
Rejected votes 6647
Total votes cast 232167
