Data-driven analysis of Kenya's elections from 2007 to 2022
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In 2017, 3,428 youth candidates ran for elective office in Kenya. Only 314 won — a 9.2% success rate. But the gender bre...
By 2017, youth voters (under 35) made up 51% of Kenya's registered voters — up from 46% in 2013. That is over 10 million...
In the 2017 general election, Jubilee Party dominated the governor's race with 25 out of 47 seats. ODM took 13, while tw...
Female voter registration in Kenya dropped from 49% in 2013 to 46.6% in 2017. Despite adding nearly 2 million women to t...
In 2017, 4,002 candidates ran as independents across all six elective positions. Only 125 won — a success rate of just 3...
The 2017 MCA elections were the most politically diverse contest in Kenya. While 21 parties won National Assembly seats,...
In 2017, Kenya's National Assembly was elected across 290 constituencies. Twenty-one different political parties won sea...
On 1st September 2017, Kenya's Supreme Court annulled the presidential election — the first such ruling in African histo...
In 2007, only 36 election petitions were filed in Kenyan courts. By 2013, that number jumped to 188. Then in 2017, it ex...
After the Supreme Court nullified the August 2017 presidential election, Kenya held a fresh vote on 26th October. Raila...
Uhuru Kenyatta won the August 2017 presidential election with 8,203,290 votes (54.27%) against Raila Odinga's 6,762,224...
Between 2007 and 2022, Kenya's registered voters grew from 9.8 million to 22.1 million. Yet turnout fell from 86% to 65%...