A police official told AFP the individual was stabbed during "scuffles" between the Unity and Assembly Party (PUR), which is led by opposition leader Issa Sall, and pro-government campaigners.
Pro-govt supporter killed in Senegal clashes
A pro-government campaigner was killed in eastern Senegal on Monday, in the first fatality from a string of pre-election clashes between supporters of President Macky Sall and the opposition.
Emotions are running high in Senegal in the runup to elections on February 24
The body was taken to a hospital in Tamboucounda, about 400 kilometres (250 miles) east of Dakar, the source said.
Contacted by AFP, the president's press office confirmed that the person killed was a supporter of the governing Senegalese Democratic Party.
Violence has buffeted Senegal ahead of presidential elections on February 24, despite appeals for calm from religious leaders.
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At least two people were "seriously injured" on Sunday in Fatick, a presidential stronghold in Senegal's centre-west, in clashes with supporters of rising opposition candidate Ousmane Sonko, local media reported.
Four people, all Sonko supporters, were badly hurt on February 4 in the northern city of Saint-Louis, Sonko's campaign said.
Senegal, a former French colony, is seen as a beacon of democracy and relative prosperity in West Africa.
But its election campaigns are often tarred by accusations of corruption, influence-peddling and misinformation.
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