Uganda, March 22 -- The Uganda Peoples Congress (UPC) candidate in the Dokolo District Woman parliamentary by-election was last evening declared the winner in the hotly contested election with 23,044 votes.

Yesterday's polls attracted six candidates in the race to replace the late Cecilia Ogwal whose seat fell vacant following her death on January 18.

They included UPC's Sarah Aguti Nyangkori, the winner; the late Ogwal's daughter, Dr Austin Rosemary Alwoc of the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) party who got 8168 votes; Ms Harriet Ageno of National Unity Platform (NUP) with 727 votes; and Ms Janet Rose Adongo Elau Okello of the ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) party wo gunnered 14,001 votes. Others were Dr Esther Akullo Obot ...