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The Form 34A Saga: Why Polling Station Results Forms Became the Most Contested Document
Form 34A is a single piece of paper: the polling station result form. Yet in 2022, these 46,229 documents became the cen...
Election Day Violence Map: Where Kenya's Hotspots Were in 2022
Kenya's 2022 election was largely peaceful — but not entirely. At least 40 incidents of election-related violence were d...
Senate 2022: How the County Delegations Shifted Power
The 2022 Senate elections gave Kenya Kwanza a narrow majority with 24 elected senators vs Azimio's 23. But the Senate's...
Deputy President Race 2022: How Rigathi Gachagua Was Chosen
Before Gachagua, there was Mathira MP speculation, Kiharu's Ndindi Nyoro, and a dozen other Mt. Kenya names. How did a r...
The MCA Bloodbath: How 80% of Incumbents Lost Their Ward Seats
Kenya's 2022 election saw a brutal purge of sitting MCAs, with approximately 80% of incumbents losing their seats. This...
The Whistle-Blower IEBC Commissioners: Juliana Cherera and the Minority Report
On August 15, 2022, IEBC Vice Chair Juliana Cherera and three other commissioners broke ranks with Chairman Wafula Chebu...
Nairobi 2022: How the Capital's 2.2 Million Voters Split Their Tickets
Kenya's capital is the only county where voters routinely split their tickets across parties. In 2022, Nairobi's 2.2 mil...
Bungoma and Kakamega: The Western Kenya Tug-of-War Between ANC and ODM
Bungoma and Kakamega — Western Kenya's two largest counties — split dramatically in 2022. Kakamega went 58% for Odinga w...
Azimio's Stronghold Paradox: Winning Counties but Losing the Election
Raila Odinga's Azimio coalition won 22 of 47 counties in the presidential race. Kenya Kwanza won 25. But the real story...
The County Assembly Speaker Elections 2022: Behind-the-Scenes Power Plays
After the dust settled on the August 2022 general election, a hidden battle erupted in all 47 county assemblies: the spe...
The Rift Valley Machine: How UDA Won 90%+ in 14 Counties
UDA swept the Rift Valley with staggering margins in 2022 — 14 counties above 90%, five above 95%. The Kalenjin heartlan...
Rejected Ballots in 2022: 246,000 Votes That Never Counted
In an election decided by 233,211 votes, the 246,232 rejected presidential ballots represent a democratic tragedy. Who w...