CHARLESTOWN, Nevis (CMC):

Attorney Mark Brantley of the opposition Concerned Citizens Movement (CCM) won Monday's by-election for a seat in the St Kitts-Nevis National Assembly.

But his victory in the closely fought contest would not affect the composition of the Parliament with the ruling St. Kitts-Nevis Labour Party having seven seats, the People's Action Movement and the Nevis Reformation Party (NRP) one seat each with the CCM taking control of the other two seats.

Preliminary results indicate that Brantley, who polled 1,475 votes, defeated Hensley Daniel, the deputy premier of the Nevis Island Administration who contested the by-election on behalf of the NRP, by 30 votes.