Kenya Election 2007: Outcomes

0815hrs: retired President Moi votes

0817hrs: Voting in Langata finally starts

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

[Mpaka Kieleweke]

kuna habari nilizipata kutoka hukokuwa kuna sehemu wananchiwamechapana na haswa wafuasi wa kibakina Raila, ila polisi wamefanikiwakutuliza munkari.

[YournameisMINE]

mie nasubiri "your world today" @ noon kwa CNN kupata nyuzi......ukweli ni kwamba Raila lazima ashinde.....wakikuyu wamezidi ukabila,wana-act kama kenya ya kwao pekee. Nahamu sana ya kujua ndugu zangu wa pwani wata-vote vipi!.

[Alnadaby]

wakenya tufundisheni kufanya maamuzi sisi kila mwaka ni ccm oyee....

[G.MWAKASEGE]

Mungu ibariki kenya na uusimamie uchaguzi wo uende kwa amani na usalama

[Kenyan-Tanzanian]

[Kenyan-Tanzanian]

Huyu binti wa Kimaasai huko ndani kijijini ni ishara ya kwamba waKenya hata wale wamashinani kabisa mara hii wamejitokeza kwa wingi ajabu kushiriki kwenyed the democratic process ya kumng'oa Rais Mwai Emilio Kibaki mamlakani nchini Kenya.

Hii Hapa kura yangu: Jameni mbona Kibaki awekwe mwanzo zaidi na Raila afichwe sijui namba ngapi hapo penye kartasi? Washindwe!





Ripoti zaidi ni hapo saa kumi na moja kamili EAT.


NB: Mh. Mzalendo nimefurahia post yako hapo juu naipenda sana Tanzania na naipenda sana Kenya...ahsante kwa hio complement kuu babu


Jiburudisheni na picha hizi toka kijijini nilikokuwa asubuhi nikitumbikzalangu dhidi ya KIBAKI.....

[Mshamba wa Kijijini]

kazi nzuri ila tunataka kura kadri zitakaposomwa utuwekee hapa na jumla kama zinavyoendelea maana hadi sasa raila anaongoza kituo kimoja bado vituo 24,999

raila akishinda tiketi ya kumpiga chini kikwete 2010!!!

[Mtu wa Pwani]

yeyote ataeshinda, basi ilioshinda ni kenya

na amaniu ya kenya ni bora kuliko yeyote ktk hao.

kenya inachagua mtumwa wa amani. ili atumike kuifanya kazi hio.

mola wape mtumwa alie tayari kujituma kwa ajili ya wakenya

[Kenyan-Tanzanian]

Vituo vyote vya kupiga kura zimemaliza biashara hii muhimu ya leo.


Hesabu za kura zimeanza pwani. Mvita constituency atokako ODM leader wa Coast province Najib Balala

Narejea na zingine

[Pundit]

December 25, 2007
Election Rules Complicate Kenya Race
By JEFFREY GETTLEMAN, New York Times

NAIROBI, Kenya — The fate of Kenya’s hotly contested presidential election could come down to a single slum.

Kibera, known as the biggest slum in Africa, is a sprawling settlement on the outskirts of Nairobi, Kenya’s capital, with one million people squeezed into a warren of rusted roof shacks, linked by muddy footpaths and streams of greenish-grayish sewage trickling alongside.

Made famous by the movie “The Constant Gardener,” which featured several scenes here, Kibera is concentrated poverty on a stunning scale. Half-naked children play in 10-foot-high piles of garbage. Drunken men stumble down the dirt boulevards, begging for work.

But Kibera is not only a treasure trove of votes in this election, which will be held on Thursday and is predicted to be the closest contest in Kenya’s history and possibly the greatest test yet of this young, multiparty democracy.

Kibera is also the heart of Raila Odinga’s parliamentary district, and Mr. Odinga, a rich businessman who has campaigned as a champion of the poor, is the leading contender for president. Most polls show him several percentage points ahead of Kenya’s president, Mwai Kibaki, who has improved the country’s economy but has alienated many voters.

Many Kenyans say Mr. Kibaki has shared the fruits of Kenya’s growing prosperity primarily with members of his own tribe, the Kikuyu.

And here is where things get interesting.

The fine print of Kenyan election law says that to become president, a candidate must win not only the most votes nationwide, but also a seat in Parliament and at least 25 percent of the votes in five of the country’s eight provinces. This may pose problems for both candidates, which could result in an inconclusive and turbulent post-election period.

In Kibera, Mr. Odinga faces Stanley Livondo, a spirited challenger, who according to many residents, has been sprinkling around 500-shilling notes (the equivalent of about $8) and winning over converts. Mr. Livondo, also a businessman, was a political nobody until the president’s party got behind him a couple of months ago.

Mr. Livondo said in a campaign advertisement that Kibera’s residents had been “reduced to tourist attractions” and that if he wins a Parliament seat, he will bring the area 50 new toilets and at least one new fire engine.

Many residents like the sound of that.

“Just look at this place,” said Simon Mugambe, a shopkeeper, jerking his head toward a river of sewage running by his feet. “Somebody needs to do something.”

Mr. Odinga has represented Kibera and the surrounding neighborhoods for the last 15 years. He won about 80 percent of the vote in the last parliamentary race in 2002, his campaign said. But this time he must reckon with a united front to defeat him.

Several other parliamentary candidates recently pulled out of the race, throwing their support behind Mr. Livondo. Mr. Odinga’s campaign is now worried that any election irregularities, like buying votes, could cost Mr. Odinga his seat — and therefore the presidency.

Mr. Kibaki, though, has to contend with the other electoral wrinkle — the five out of eight rule. Recent polls show the president’s support heavily concentrated in the few provinces home to many Kikuyus. In the other provinces, his support is very thin.

The result, after a campaign season in which more than 20 people have been killed in election-related violence, could be an unclear outcome with neither major candidate declared the winner. That would be bad, just about everyone agrees.

“The law is completely vague,” said Maina Kiai, chairman of the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights. “These things were not envisioned in the Constitution and there will be a lot of confusion. If this happens, the leadership will really have to step up. If not, we could have trouble.”

One Western diplomat said, “We just hope it’s not close.”

Kenya’s election commission said it was not sure what would happen if neither major candidate met the criteria.

“It’s a tricky one,” said Mani Lemayian, a spokesman for the election commission.

There is a possibility, Mr. Lemayian said, that there could a runoff between the second and third place finishers, if the first-place finisher did not win a Parliament seat. That would open the door for Kalonzo Musyoka, a former foreign minister, who is also running for president and has been ranked a distant third.