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From Kenyatta to Ruto: How Mt. Kenya's Vote Shifted in 2022
Mt. Kenya's six core counties voted 92-99% for Kenyatta in 2017 and 73-85% for Ruto in 2022. The transfer worked, but th...
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...
How Many Parties Does Kenya Really Need? The 41-Party Parliament
Kenya's 2017 election produced a parliament fragmented across 41 political parties. Jubilee and ODM dominated, but dozen...
ANC, FORD-Kenya, and Wiper: Western and Eastern Kenya's Opposition in Numbers
Within the NASA coalition, three parties carved out regional kingdoms. Wiper held the most seats overall with 108 across...
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...
The KANU Factor: From 39 Years of Power to 8 Seats
The Kenya African National Union (KANU) was the ruling party from 1963 to 2002 -- 39 years of unbroken power. By 2017, t...
What Makes a Petition Succeed? Analyzing 2017's 35 Successful Challenges
After the 2017 General Election, 446 election petitions were filed in Kenyan courts. Only 35 succeeded, a 7.8% success r...
Biometric Voter Verification: How 88.6% of Voters Were Fingerprinted in 2017
The 2017 election was a massive test of biometric technology. IEBC deployed 10,667 KIEMS kits to verify voters by finger...
Women Representatives: How Jubilee Dominated the 47 County Women Rep Seats
In the 2017 General Election, Jubilee claimed 25 of 47 county Women Representative seats. ODM trailed with 11. But the r...
The BVR Kit Crisis: 27% of Election Technology Had Hardware Defects
The IEBC deployed 9,976 BVR kits for the 2017 election. But 2,692 hardware defects were recorded across critical compone...
Digital Democracy: 3,032 Polling Stations Had ZERO Network Coverage in 2017
Kenya's 2017 election depended on digital results transmission. But 3,032 of 40,883 polling stations had zero network co...
The Senate Race: 47 Seats, 9 Parties, and Zero Successful Petitions
In 2017, nine political parties shared 47 senate seats. Jubilee took 24, ODM won 13, and the rest were split among seven...