Patrick Tutui lost To Memusi even where he casted his vote

Patrick Tutui did not only lose to ODM’s Elijah Memusi, but also lost where he cast his vote.

At Ilbisil Township Primary school, with 1,236 registered candidates and where Tutui voted, he only garnered 431 votes against Memusi’s 471. He, however, beat Memusi at the nearby Ibissil Boarding Primary School, where with 1,026 registered voters, he got 406 votes against Memusi’s 337. The centres are located in Bissil town, Tutui’s hometown. Memusi trounced Tutui in Engaboli Primary School polling station in Matapato South, where he (Memusi) cast his vote and scored 504 votes against Tutui’s 487.

Details emerging from analysis of the total votes cast also show that Tutui lost key urban and sub-urban votes, but, scored big in the rural areas. Of the five county wards; Purko, Ildamat, Dalalekutuk, Matapato North and Matapato South, Tutui carried the day in the two Matapato wards, which account for approximately 22,000 votes of the 39,000 registered voters.

In Matapato South, which includes Namanga town, Tutui scored 4,656 votes against Memusi’s 3,967 while in Matapato North, which includes his Bissil home town, he got 4,903 against Memusi’s 4,481.  But in Ildamat, which includes parts of Kajiado town, Memusi got 2,313 against Tutui’s 1,441.

In Dalalekutuk, which includes large swathes of Kajiado suburbs, Memusi again trounced him after scoring 4,055 against his 3,417. To seal his victory, Memusi beat Tutui in less populous Purko ward, scoring 1,138 votes against his 1,048.

According to the statistics, turn-out was most poor in Matapato South. Of the 11,198 registered to vote, 8,623 turned up. About 2,575 registered voters did not vote. In an interview on the eve of by-election, Tutui lamented that drought had driven potential voters from his rural strongholds to Tanzania in search of pasture and claimed the remaining rural vote was under his “lock and key.”