Kenya Election Insights

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

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Biometric Voter Verification: How 88.6% of Voters Were Fingerprinted in 2017
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...

Jun 15, 2025 5 min 6,032
The BVR Kit Crisis: 27% of Election Technology Had Hardware Defects
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...

May 15, 2025 5 min 9,717
How the 2022 Election Was Different From Every One Before It
How the 2022 Election Was Different From Every One Before It

From the first deputy president to run as the opposition, to the first sitting president to campaign against his own dep...

Jan 10, 2023 4 min 4,128
Election Observers in 2022: What International Monitors Actually Found
Election Observers in 2022: What International Monitors Actually Found

The EU, AU, Commonwealth, and domestic observer groups all filed detailed reports on Kenya's 2022 election. What they ac...

Nov 15, 2022 4 min 847
The Servers Controversy: Real-Time Results Transmission in 2022
The Servers Controversy: Real-Time Results Transmission in 2022

The 2022 results transmission system was Kenya's most advanced yet — KIEMS kits, 4G backup, and real-time portal uploads...

Sep 28, 2022 4 min 4,285
KIEMS Kit Failures on Election Day 2022: A County-by-County Breakdown
KIEMS Kit Failures on Election Day 2022: A County-by-County Breakdown

Kenya invested KES 8 billion in KIEMS kits to ensure biometric voter identification and electronic results transmission....

Aug 25, 2022 4 min 1,091