Kenya elections 2022

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenyans are waiting for the results of a close but calm presidential election in which the turnout was lower than usual.

Official election results must be announced within a week of the vote. The wait for a winner was bringing anxiety and fatigue. In 2017, the high court overturned the election results, a first in Africa, after Odinga alleged irregularities. Amnesty International Kenya and other groups in a statement urged Kenyans to consider all results as provisional until the electoral commission announces the official results to reduce the risks of violence or claims of rigging. More than 22 million people were registered to vote, but some told The Associated Press they doubted they would bother, dispirited by economic challenges including high national debt and widespread unemployment. The electoral commission indicated it would be at least Thursday before a winner is declared.

Provisional results suggest a tight presidential race in Kenya between Deputy President William Ruto and former prime minister Raila Odinga....

Mr Ruto, 55, who has tried to emphasise his connection with ordinary Kenyans by calling himself a "hustler", is taking his first stab at the presidency. To win the presidential race in the first round, a candidate needs: The two frontrunners in the presidential race are seasoned politicians.

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"This morning, it is D-day and we have come to vote with my wife and my neighbours and the people in this community. The commission is in consultation with security to address the issues raised." In Turkana Central constituency, the commission was informed of a road accident involving a presiding officer and two clerks from Kalokol Ward. The three were rushed to hospital with minor injuiries and later discharged. The Kenyan presidential poll is a race of two races. Meanwhile, as many as 43,615 forms 34A out of 46,229 (representing total number of polling stations) have been reported to the IEBC, Kenya's election commission. Collating and announcement of results at the constituencies is under way. As at 9:20am today, 46,112 (99.76%) out of 46,229 form 34As have been reported to the electoral commission from 48 counties. In all polling stations observed, the mission says the party agents signed copies of the declaration forms. To begin with, Kikwete says they observed that the campaigns were generally conducted in a calm and peaceful atmosphere. Party agents have been warned to come to Bomas of Kenya for only confirmation and getting copies of the original forms but NOT to tally votes. On Thursday, the Wafula Chebukati-led commission started to physically receive and verify the results from its returning officers at the national tallying centre at Bomas of Kenya in the capital, Nairobi. It is not about the continuation of campaigns -- campaigns have ended, and results must be tabulated accurately to ensure confidence in the system."

Kenyans are glued to their TV screens and mobile phones this morning as an extremely close race is unfolding between the two main candidates.

A public handshake between him and Mr Kenyatta calmed the crisis. This is likely Mr Odinga’s last try. “We need mature people to lead, not someone who abuses people. That would make it Kenya’s lowest turnout in 15 or even 20 years. A cheering crowd jogged alongside his convoy as he arrived to vote in Nairobi. No outright winner means a run-off election within 30 days. Mr Ruto and Mr Odinga have said they will accept the official results — if the vote is free and fair. The electoral commission said about 200 voting kits had failed out of more than 46,000, calling it “not widespread” and “normal” for technology to break down at times. To win outright, a candidate needs more than half of all votes and at least 25 per cent of the votes in more than half of Kenya’s 47 counties. “In moments like this is when the mighty and the powerful come to the realisation that it is the simple and the ordinary that eventually make the choice,” Mr Ruto told journalists. “I have confidence that the people of Kenya are going to speak loudly in favour of democratic change,” Mr Odinga told journalists. Both Odinga and Ruto were polling at 49 per cent of the vote most of the day but Odinga seems to be gaining ground.

Kenyans are waiting for the results of a close but calm presidential election in which the turnout was notably lower than usual.

The wait for a winner was bringing anxiety and fatigue. In 2017, the high court overturned the election results, a first in Africa, after Odinga alleged irregularities. Official election results must be announced within a week of the vote. More than 1,000 people were killed after 2007 election results were announced and Odinga alleged massive rigging. Amnesty International Kenya and other groups in a statement urged Kenyans to consider all results as provisional until the electoral commission announces the official results to reduce the risks of violence or claims of rigging. The electoral commission indicated it would be at least Thursday before a winner is declared.

Provisional results suggest a tight presidential race in Kenya between Deputy President William Ruto and former prime minister Raila Odinga.

Mr Ruto, 55, who has tried to emphasise his connection with ordinary Kenyans by calling himself a "hustler", is taking his first stab at the presidency. - at least 25% of the votes cast in a minimum of 24 counties. To win the presidential race in the first round, a candidate needs:

"It is clear that elections are won at the polling stations so once the results are declared here they are treated as final.So whatever outcome that will ...

But corruption has remained endemic and the effects of the pandemic, the war in Ukraine and the ongoing drought have exacerbated already glaring inequalities and dominated the campaign. "I hope this time it will be better," he pleaded from Kibera, a huge slum in Nairobi. Of the 22.1 million voters, just over half had cast their ballots by 4:00 p.m. (13:00 GMT). But the country feared on Wednesday that it would once again be caught up in a familiar post-election saga, with every election since 2002 contested in this East African country considered a democratic anchor in the region. In 2017, turnout was close to 80%. But the August 2017 presidential election was invalidated by the courts for "irregularities" and then rescheduled, denting the reputation of the IEBC. The second, William Ruto, a 55-year-old sulphurous businessman, a Kalenjin who is running in opposition to the "dynasties" embodied by Mr. Kenyatta and Mr. Odinga, heirs of two families at the heart of Kenyan politics since independence in 1963.

More than 90% of polling stations have reported, but the official result may not be known for days.

Mr Ruto, 55, who has tried to emphasise his connection with ordinary Kenyans by calling himself a "hustler", is taking his first stab at the presidency. - at least 25% of the votes cast in a minimum of 24 counties. To win the presidential race in the first round, a candidate needs:

Kenya's much-anticipated elections were marred by low voter turnout, allegations of voter bribery and technology failure.

Analysts say result too close to call, with poor turnout amid cost of living crisis and soaring unemployment.

Ruto has run his platform on the economic empowerment of the poor, promising to set up a fund for small businesses. Odinga has promised quality healthcare for all and social support for the poor, including a £40 monthly stipend for the most vulnerable households. To win the elections in the first round, the candidates would need to secure more than 50% of total votes cast, and at least 25% of votes from 24 of Kenya’s 47 counties.

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And demography, voters’ age, ethnicity and other factors, will be the main wildcard in this election. In the last presidential election, in 2017, international observers endorsed the integrity of the outcome, which was subsequently overturned after Odinga brought a case that succeeded in nullifying the result, owing to serious irregularities. “Our third head of state is to retire peacefully, that’s a positive,” notes John Githongo, the renowned corruption fighter who is now working on the Odinga campaign, in an interview. He will have to find a way to make basic foodstuffs more affordable, wean Kenya off its dependence on food imports, and stabilise the price of fuel, all without increasing the national debt or fueling inflation. Odinga is the head of the Orange Democratic Movement and the leader of Azimio La Umoja (loosely translated as “Resolution of Unity”), a coalition of parties running on a single ticket. For decades after Kenya gained its independence in 1963, the Kenya African National Union reliably dominated, owing to its use of questionable practices, some violence, and a persistently splintered opposition.

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"People are just looking for the absence or presence of violence and as a Kenyan it's a really demoralising standard to be told we should only aspire to the bare minimum," she said. The winning candidate must get 50% of the vote plus one to win, and at least a quarter of votes in 24 out of Kenya's 47 counties. The elections have largely been peaceful so far; major protests and clashes usually only follow result announcements. Veteran opposition leader and former political prisoner Raila Odinga, 77, is making his fifth stab at the presidency. Outgoing President Uhuru Kenyatta has reached his two-term limit. “There is so much impatience due to media reports, because they are varying.

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This radical honesty on the part of the IEBC seems to have caught the media by surprise, accustomed as they were to merely repeating official tallies, and they have struggled to cope with the avalanche of documents. It has been, in many ways, a very un-Kenyan election and those of us who have forged careers pointing out the deficiencies of the system have suddenly, and happily, found themselves with very little to say. Since then, beginning with the adoption of a new constitution in 2010, Kenya has been slowly and purposefully reinventing itself and its democracy. And for that, Kenyans have the tenacity of civil society activists to thank. Media houses started to tally them up independently with (gasp!) the encouragement of the IEBC! By the second day, it was being described as the most boring election Kenya has had. The body managing the election, the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC), at first seemed to be its usual bumbling, hapless self, with early reports of failure of voter identification kits, misplaced and misprinted ballot papers.

Kenya's elections chief has warned the media not to announce the winner of the presidential poll before his own organisation does.

But na only di electoral commission fit declare di winner. Di media tally say di two leading candidates - Raila Odinga and William Ruto - dey neck and neck. " ...

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“We elected our leaders and have no further power from there as voters. As observers, citizens and those in neighbouring countries watch for the outcome of the elections, there have been calls for peace, given Kenya’s history of disputed elections, which have sometimes resulted in violence. To win the presidency, either candidate must get more than 50 percent of the vote and at least 25 percent in at least 24 out of Kenya’s 47 counties.

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“The issue of saying that we should declare results today (Wednesday), that will not happen today,” Chebukati told journalists. The electoral body in Kenya, Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) has disclosed that the results of the presidential election could not be announced yesterday. The chairman of the commission, Wafula Chebukati said this on Wednesday while addressing journalists in the East African country.