Kenya Election Insights

Data-driven analysis of Kenya's elections from 2007 to 2022

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How Ballot Paper Design Affected Rejected Votes in 2022
How Ballot Paper Design Affected Rejected Votes in 2022

In an election decided by 233,000 votes, the 113,614 rejected presidential ballots were not trivial. Analysis of rejecte...

Mar 20, 2023 6 min 7,749
Diaspora Voting 2022: The Promise That Was Never Delivered
Diaspora Voting 2022: The Promise That Was Never Delivered

Despite a constitutional right to vote, an estimated 3 million Kenyans living abroad were unable to participate in the 2...

Mar 20, 2023 5 min 7,108
Post-Election Petitions in 2022: 200+ Cases That Went to Court
Post-Election Petitions in 2022: 200+ Cases That Went to Court

The 2022 election generated 203 petitions challenging results at every level. From the Supreme Court presidential challe...

Mar 15, 2023 3 min 2,223
Party Agent Reports vs Official Results: Where the Numbers Didn't Match in 2022
Party Agent Reports vs Official Results: Where the Numbers Didn't Match in 2022

When party agents' tallies don't match the official IEBC form, it could be a simple math error or something more concern...

Mar 14, 2023 6 min 2,267
Vote Buying in 2022: The Open Secret Everyone Knows But Nobody Stops
Vote Buying in 2022: The Open Secret Everyone Knows But Nobody Stops

Vote buying is illegal in Kenya. It's also ubiquitous. In 2022, cash distribution during campaigns reached industrial sc...

Mar 14, 2023 4 min 5,969
Governor Term Limits 2022: The 21 First-Term Governors and Their Records
Governor Term Limits 2022: The 21 First-Term Governors and Their Records

Kenya's 2022 elections saw 26 term-limited governors exit and 21 first-term governors eligible to run again. Only 14 sou...

Mar 08, 2023 5 min 3,834
Post-Election Kenya 2022: The Peaceful Transfer of Power That Surprised the World
Post-Election Kenya 2022: The Peaceful Transfer of Power That Surprised the World

William Ruto's inauguration on September 13, 2022, completed Kenya's most contentious but ultimately peaceful power tran...

Mar 05, 2023 4 min 11,129
Wajir, Garissa, and Mandera: The North Eastern Bloc in 2022
Wajir, Garissa, and Mandera: The North Eastern Bloc in 2022

Kenya's three North Eastern counties — Wajir, Garissa, and Mandera — have distinctive electoral dynamics: clan-based pol...

Feb 28, 2023 5 min 10,438
The Women Rep Position: Kenya's Most Unique Electoral Experiment
The Women Rep Position: Kenya's Most Unique Electoral Experiment

The Women Representative seat is uniquely Kenyan — a constitutional compromise born from the two-thirds gender rule that...

Feb 20, 2023 4 min 4,728
Turkana and Marsabit: How Pastoralist Counties Voted in 2022
Turkana and Marsabit: How Pastoralist Counties Voted in 2022

Pastoralist counties in northern Kenya face unique electoral challenges — vast distances, nomadic populations, and secur...

Feb 18, 2023 6 min 6,943
The MCA Electoral Map 2022: 1,450 Ward Races in One Visualization
The MCA Electoral Map 2022: 1,450 Ward Races in One Visualization

Kenya's 2022 MCA elections featured 25,468 candidates contesting 1,450 ward seats across 47 counties. With average margi...

Feb 14, 2023 5 min 9,612
Electoral Violence Deaths in 2022: A Data-Driven Memorial
Electoral Violence Deaths in 2022: A Data-Driven Memorial

While Kenya's 2022 election was praised as one of the most peaceful in recent history, at least 38 people died in electi...

Feb 14, 2023 5 min 8,957