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The National Assembly Class of 2022: A Demographic Profile of 290 MPs
A comprehensive demographic analysis of the 290 MPs elected to Kenya's National Assembly in 2022. The class is 90% male,...
Nandi and Uasin Gishu: Inside UDA's Two Fortress Counties
Nandi and Uasin Gishu are the twin engines of UDA's electoral machine. In 2022, they delivered a combined net margin of...
Data Integrity in 2022: How the Results Verification Process Actually Worked
From the moment a presiding officer finishes counting ballots to the moment the IEBC chairperson declares results at Bom...
Counting Irregularities: 15 Constituencies Where Results Were Contested
The 2022 election generated over 200 election petitions, but some constituencies stood out for the severity of their cou...
The Gender Gap in 2022: Only 29 Women Won Parliamentary Seats
Kenya's Constitution requires that no more than two-thirds of any elective body be of one gender. Twelve years after thi...
Women Governors 2022: The Seven Who Made It and What Their Counties Look Like
Kenya elected a record 7 women governors in 2022, up from 3 in 2017. This analysis profiles each winner, examines the co...
Governor Races 2022: 15 Counties Where the Winner Got Less Than 55%
In 2022, fifteen governor races were won with less than 55% of the vote — margins so thin that voter mobilization or tur...
Polling Station Disputes 2022: When Results Were Announced Before Counting Finished
The 2022 election saw disputes at hundreds of polling stations — from premature result announcements to agent exclusion...
Network Coverage on Election Day 2022: Which Counties Had Connectivity Problems
Network connectivity failures affected results transmission from at least 879 polling stations in the 2022 general elect...
The Youth Candidate Wave: Under-35s Who Ran for MCA in 2022
Kenya's MCA race is where political careers begin, and in 2022, thousands of young candidates threw their hats in. The d...
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...
Voter Registration vs Turnout: The 2022 County Disconnect
Analysis of the gap between voter registration and actual turnout across all 47 counties in 2022. While the national ave...