Henry Nigeria Mbachu of the Labour Party (LP) has been declared the winner of the Awka 1 State Constituency in Anambra State.
Nwafor Igwedinma Samuel of the ruling All Progressive Grand Alliance APGA defeated Henry to win the ticket.
The Anambra State Government House and other top administrative offices are located in the Constituency.
According to the INEC Returning Officer, Prof. Rafael Odigbo of Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Mbachu received 8,591 votes, while Nwafor of the APGA received 8,315 votes and Okoye Uche of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) received 5,656 votes.
In other news, the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Cross River State, Bassey Otu, has been declared the governor-elect having scored the highest number of votes in the 18 March election.
Teddy Charles, a professor and returning officer for the Independent National Electoral Commission(INEC) in the state, said Mr Otu polled 258,619 votes to defeat the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Sandy Onor, who scored 179,636 votes, Channels TV reported.
Mr. Otu, a former federal lawmaker, won in 15 of the 18 local government areas of the state. The results were declared by INEC in Calabar, the state capital, according to Channels.
With the victory, Mr. Otu will become the first governor of the state to be elected on the platform of a different party outside PDP which had governed the state since the return of democracy in 1999.