Andrew Victor Lungay (born May 16, 1942) is a

Sierra Leonean Sierra Leone,)]. officially the Republic of Sierra Leone, is a country on the southwest coast of West Africa. It is bordered by Liberia to the southeast and Guinea surrounds the northern half of the nation. Covering a total area of , Sierra ...

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from the

Sierra Leone People's Party The Sierra Leone People's Party (SLPP) is one of the two major political parties in Sierra Leone, along with its main political rival the All People's Congress (APC). It has been the ruling party in Sierra Leone since April 4, 2018. The SLPP do ...

(SLPP). He is a member of

parliament of Sierra Leone Parliament of Sierra Leone is the legislative branch of the government of Sierra Leone. It is principally responsible for making laws. The Sierra Leone parliament consists of 146 members, of which 132 members are directly elected from across Si ...

from

Kenema District Kenema District is a district in the Eastern Province of Sierra Leone. Its capital city, capital and largest city is Kenema, which is the third most populous city in Sierra Leone, after Freetown and Bo. Tongo is the second most populous city i ...

since 2002. Lungay ran in the 1996 presidential election as a member of the

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, receiving .7% of the national vote. An interesting note on that election is Lungay and

Andrew Turay Andrew Turay is a Sierra Leonean politician. He competed in the 1996 presidential election as part of the National People's Party (NPP). He received 0.5% of the vote (3,925 total votes). Turay was the candidate for the Convention People's Party i ...

, the 2 worst finishers in the election, had equal numbers of votes from all the regions, something the top-finishers could not claim. Lungay has been a member of the Parliamentary Education, Social Services, Youths & Sports, Human Rights and Internal Affairs

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.SLPP
List of SLPP parliamentarians

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Living people Members of the Parliament of Sierra Leone Sierra Leone People's Party politicians 1942 births People from Kenema District {{SierraLeone-politician-stub