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- ↑ Nation quotidienne, 16 juin 2017: Sylvanus Maritim. Jubilee Party By-Elections Sound the Alarm for ODM
- ↑ Data Report of 2017 Elections (PDF). Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission. April 2020. Retrieved 5 September 2020.