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2025 Year in Review: 12 Data Insights That Defined Our Understanding of Kenyan Elections
Over the past year, we have published over 40 data-driven articles covering every aspect of Kenya's elections from 2007...
Five Years On: Remembering August 8, 2017 by the Numbers
19.6 million registered voters. 8 presidential candidates. 10,667 KIEMS kits. One Supreme Court annulment. August 8, 201...
8 Provinces, 210 Seats, One Winner-Take-All Presidency
A deeper 2007 brief built from validated project data points: presidential totals, parliamentary seat split, petition ba...
The Parliamentary-Presidential Mismatch in 2007
A deeper 2007 brief built from validated project data points: presidential totals, parliamentary seat split, petition ba...
Registration to Representation: The Pipeline Problem for Women
In 2017, Kenya had 9.14 million female registered voters (46.6% of the roll). By 2022, it was 10.87 million (49.1%). Yet...
2007 by the Numbers: What We Can Prove From Surviving Datasets
A deeper 2007 brief built from validated project data points: presidential totals, parliamentary seat split, petition ba...
From Violence to Reform: How 2007 Led to Kenya's New Constitution
The 2007-2008 post-election crisis killed approximately 1,500 Kenyans and displaced over 600,000. The Waki Commission in...
From 210 MPs to 8 Provinces: How the Old Electoral System Worked
Kenya's pre-2010 constitution electoral system was radically different from what exists today. The country was divided i...
Election Petitions: From 36 in 2007 to 446 in 2017 — A 1,138% Increase
In 2007, only 36 election petitions were filed in Kenyan courts. By 2013, that number jumped to 188. Then in 2017, it ex...
Four Elections, Four Stories: How Kenya's Democracy Evolved from 2007 to 2022
Between 2007 and 2022, Kenya's registered voters grew from 9.8 million to 22.1 million. Yet turnout fell from 86% to 65%...
How the 2022 Election Was Different From Every One Before It
From the first deputy president to run as the opposition, to the first sitting president to campaign against his own dep...
First-Time Candidates Who Won in 2022: The Outsiders Who Beat the Odds
In a political system dominated by money, incumbency, and ethnic arithmetic, 2022 saw a remarkable wave of first-time ca...