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0818hrs: Makadara civic ward aspirant name missing from ballot paper
0821hrs: ECK cancels election for Civic ward in Makadara
08:22hrs: Trouble in Manyatta Constituency as a Cooperative minister Peter Ndwigas agent is thrown out of social hall for allegedly recieving a phone call inside a polling station.
0824hrs: Mutava Musyimi casts vote in Gachoka constituency
0825hrs: Orengo about to walk into a polling station
0920: William Ruto leaving Eldoret home to cast vote
0922hrs: Charity Ngilu protests at a kitui polling station.
0922hrs: Pius Muiru accompanied by wife casts ballot
0923hrs: Kalonzo Musyoka expected to vote
More updates coming all day...
0924hrs: Moyale's 34,474 voters jam polling stations as one polling stations with as little as 124 voters report end of exercise with a hundred percent record of voters turning up...
0925hrs: Early voter turnout in Mararal in Samburu
Crucial statistics
2,548 polling stations
15,000 civic seats
28,000 polling stations
14.2 million voters
Past Election Results
1997
Winners
Daniel Moi _ 2.5m - 40.5%
Mwai Kibaki - 1.9m - 31%
Raila Odinga - 667,886 - 10.8%
2002 Results
Mwai Kibaki - 3.6m - 62.2%
Uhuru Kenyatta - 1.8m - 31.3%
Simeon Nyachae - 345,161 - 5.9%
2005 REFERENDUM
NO Team (led by Raila Odinga) - 3.5m - 57%
Yes Team (led by President Mwai Kibaki) - 2.5m - 43%
1997 parliamentary seat
Kanu - 107 seats, 6 nominated MPs
DP - 39seats, 2 nominated seats
NDP - 21 SEATS, 1 NOMINATED
FOrd Kenya- 17 seats, 1 nominated
2002 results
Narc- 125 seats, 7 nominated
Kanu - 64 seats, 4 nominated
Ford People - 14 seats, 1 nominated
Safina - 2 seats
Ford Asili - 2 seats
Sis Kwa Sisi- 2 seats
0951hrs: Kibaki arrives at Mutoini primary school
0952hrs: KJ about to vote in Dagorettie
0955hrs:Raila getting into Old Primary School to vote, the polling station gets into a frenzy as he strolls in holding Ida Odinga and accompanied by Fidel and Rosemary and his campaign detail
0956: Our Busia reporter files this story -
Busia District Hospital authorities today barred a man from leaving institution to go and vote since he was nursing a child that was being treated for tetanus.
According to the hospital matron, Ms Semrick Obel, the 55 year old Alex Musina, from Shinamwenyuli village in Butere district, had initially sought discharge for the child to enable him vote .
"There are those we can permit to go and vote after assessing the condition and how long they can take outside, but not this particular one" said Sister Obel wondering why the ECK didn't consider setting up mobile polling stations in hospitals.
"If KNEC can bring examinations in the hospital what prevents ECK to bring the ballot boxes here?" she asked, adding that many patients had felt disenfranchised.
The nurses said that tetanus was a dangerous disease that the government may need to investigate if immunization was appropriately carried out in the patients' place of origin.
'The government has spent a lot of money on treating the child who is now showing signs of recovery and now you want to discharged him against medical recommendation, we can't allow that", the matron told the man and threatened to report him to the Children 's department for child abuse.
0957hrs: Raila recieving hands in his identification details to first clerk and they are NOT certified
jamani ikiwa matokeo yanakuja haraka namna hii...kwa idadi kubwa namna hii ya wapiga kura vipi zenj matokeo ya kura laki ngapi sijui yachukue two weeks kutangazwa? au wakati huo ndipo wanapofanya madudu ya kumjazia karume kura? hee heheh...heheh...
__________________ SUCCESS USUALLY COMES TO THOSE WHO ARE TOO BUSY TO BE LOOKING FOR IT.
Mtu wa Pwani si useme tu hayo mengineo ni yepi? Mazingaombwe ya CCM ama?
hee heee
ww keil achia tu
__________________ Our job is not to make up anybody's mind, but to open minds and to make the agony of the decision-making so intense you can escape only by thinking. ~Author Unknown
kwanini unafikiri hivyo? Uchaguzi ni tight sana,lakini kwa mwono wangu iwapo matokeo yanayotoka ni random basi Raila atashinda. Kumbuka matokeo mengi yanatoka Nairobi na Central kwa sasa kwa sababu ya mawasiliano ya haraka. Hivyo ninaamini bado ni tight race. Hata hivyo napata wasiwasi na Bunge litakavyokuwa maanainaonesha ODM watakuwa na majority. Ingekuwa tamu kama unakuwa na Rais Kibaki halafu hana majority bungeni. Au Rais Raila halafu hana Bunge upande wake.
I am sure Kibaki will win this elction and is what I pray for.
Mungu Mbariki Kibaki
Wenzako wanashinda kwa kura, wewe unataka ushindi wa wishful thinking na prayer; Ushindwe kabisa na Kibaki/Moi wako, hayo ni mambo ya TZ tu msee, wale kumekucha!
__________________ Utii bila Uhuru wa Kufikiri ni Utumwa
Zitto,
Ukienda hapa http://politics.nationmedia.com/
Panaonyesha matokeo yanatoka mikoa mitatu so far, Nyanza, Rift Valley na Central. Sijui mgawanyiko wa Nairobi ukoje, lakini wapiga kura wa Nairobi ni wachache sana. Tuombe Mungu Central kuwe na wapiga kura wachache waliojitokeza, lakini kama wakiwa wametoka kwa wingi kama nilivyosikia BBC, Central inaweza kumbeba sana Kibaki. Sijui influence ya Raila kwenye ya Coast na Eastern.
Lakini tuvute subira mpaka dakika ya mwisho tuone, japo nina matumaini makubwa sana na Raila. Nitasikitika sana iwapo Raila atasikitika.
kwanini unafikiri hivyo? Uchaguzi ni tight sana,lakini kwa mwono wangu iwapo matokeo yanayotoka ni random basi Raila atashinda. Kumbuka matokeo mengi yanatoka Nairobi na Central kwa sasa kwa sababu ya mawasiliano ya haraka. Hivyo ninaamini bado ni tight race. Hata hivyo napata wasiwasi na Bunge litakavyokuwa maanainaonesha ODM watakuwa na majority. Ingekuwa tamu kama unakuwa na Rais Kibaki halafu hana majority bungeni. Au Rais Raila halafu hana Bunge upande wake.
tufuatilie
Mh. Zitto (MB), kwa kweli mimi siku zote naamini sana nguvu ya Bunge pale mgawanyo wa idadi ya wabunge kwenye bunge unapomfanya aliyeko madarakani awe na home work ya kuli-convince bunge kwenye mswada wowote ule inaoupeleka bungeni...
Natamani sana nchi yangu Tanzania itakapokuwa na Bunge la namna hiyo... huo mimi ndio nauita ushindi kwa umma, maana wananchi through wabunge wao ndio wanaamua mustakabali wa nchi yao...