{"iso":"KE","name":"Kenya","flag":"\ud83c\uddf0\ud83c\uddea","vote":"Presidential vote \u00b7 baseline forecast","model":"baseline","updated":"2022-08-09","source":"2022 election result, official count","credit":"No regular published national polling feed. Shares are the presidential vote of 9 August 2022, official results as published by the electoral commission IEBC and upheld by the Supreme Court. No national party vote is published for the first-past-the-post parliamentary races. Candidates below one percent are not shown.","shares":{"UDA":50.5,"AZI":48.9},"polls":[],"parties":{"UDA":{"name":"United Democratic Alliance (Kenya Kwanza)","color":"#FFD400","name_en":"United Democratic Alliance, Kenya Kwanza"},"AZI":{"name":"Azimio la Umoja","color":"#F97316"}},"primer":{"system":"Presidential republic","head_of_state":"President William Ruto","legislature":"National Assembly of 349 members and a 67-seat Senate.","electoral_system":"The president must win over half the national vote plus a quarter of the vote in at least 24 of 47 counties. Parliament is elected by first-past-the-post.","government_now":"Ruto's Kenya Kwanza coalition governs after the close 2022 result was upheld by the Supreme Court, a rare regional case of contested elections resolved in court.","context":"Ruto's presidency has been rocked since 2024 by youth-led protests against tax rises and police abductions. His co-optation of opposition figures has scrambled coalitions ahead of the general election due in August 2027.","sources":"Cross-checked against the English-language MediaWiki encyclopedic record via its public API, 2 July 2026."},"parties_info":{"UDA":["United Democratic Alliance (Kenya Kwanza)","Kenya Kwanza means 'Kenya First'","President William Ruto's party and lead force of the governing Kenya Kwanza coalition; populist centre-right 'hustler nation' platform; in power since 2022."],"AZI":["Azimio la Umoja","Declaration of Unity","Opposition coalition anchored by Raila Odinga's centre-left ODM; narrowly lost the 2022 presidential race, though several of its figures later cooperated with Ruto's government."]},"seats_now":{"chamber":"National Assembly","as_of":"2022 election","total":349,"seats":{"UDA":159,"AZI":162}},"region_winners":{"Rift Valley":"UDA","Eastern":"UDA","North Eastern":"AZI","Coast":"AZI","Nyanza":"AZI","Western":"AZI","Nairobi":"AZI","Central":"UDA"},"region_meta":{"election":"2022 Kenyan presidential election","source":"IEBC official county results aggregated to former provinces (2022 Kenyan general election), retrieved 2026-07-02","note":"Geometry uses Kenya's 8 former provinces; per-county results were aggregated. UDA=Ruto (Central, Eastern, Rift Valley); AZI=Azimio/Odinga (Nairobi, Coast, North Eastern, Nyanza, Western). Eastern was close (Ruto ~53%)."},"has_geo":true,"next_election":{"date":"2027-08-10","title":"Kenyan general election","chamber":"Presidency & Parliament","type":"scheduled"}}