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General elections were held in Kenya on 27 December 2007, [1] electing the President, National Assembly and local councils.
Kenya, officially the Republic of Kenya, is a country in Africa with 47 semiautonomous counties governed by elected governors. At 580,367 square kilometres (224,081 sq mi), Kenya is the world's 48th largest country by total area. With a population of more than 52.2 million people, Kenya is the 27th most populous country. Kenya's capital and largest city is Nairobi while its oldest city and first capital is the coastal city of Mombasa. Kisumu City is the third largest city and a critical inland port at Lake Victoria. Other important urban centres include Nakuru and Eldoret.
The President of the Republic of Kenya is the head of state and head of government of Kenya. The president leads the executive branch of the Government of Kenya and is the commander-in-chief of the Kenya Defence Forces. The official residence of the president is at State House, Nairobi. The wife of the President is referred to as the First Lady of Kenya.
The National Assembly is the lower house of the Parliament of Kenya. Prior to the 11th Parliament in 1966 when the Parliament moved to become bicameral, it served as a unicameral house.
The presidential elections were a two-horse race between incumbent Mwai Kibaki, running on a Party of National Unity (PNU) ticket and Raila Odinga, leader of the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM). They were strongly marked by tribal hostility, with Kibaki a member of the traditionally dominant Kikuyu ethnic group, gaining much support amongst the Kikuyu and neighbouring groups in central Kenya, including the Embu and Meru. Odinga, as a member of the Luo ethnic group, succeeded in creating a wider base by building a coalition with regional leaders from the Luhya in Western Kenya, Kalenjin from the Rift Valley and Muslim leaders from the Coast Province. Kibaki was declared the winner with 46% of the vote, and was sworn in at State House on 30 December. However, opposition leader Raila Odinga also claimed victory, [2] [3] and civil unrest broke out resulting in the deaths of several hundred people and the displacement of up to 600,000. This was ended by the National Accord and Reconciliation Act, which led to Odinga being appointed as Prime Minister.
Mwai Kibaki, C.G.H. is a Kenyan politician who was the third President of Kenya, serving from December 2002 until April 2013.
Party of National Unity (PNU) was founded as a political coalition of parties in Kenya. On 16 September 2007, Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki announced the party formation and said that he would run as its presidential candidate in the December 2007 Kenyan elections. It has since become a political party in its own right following conditions set by the Political Parties Act, passed in Kenya in 2008.
Raila Amolo Odinga is a Kenyan politician who served as Prime Minister of Kenya from 2008 to 2013, and has served as Leader of the Opposition since 2013. He was Member of Parliament (MP) for Langata from 1992 to 2013. He served in the Cabinet of Kenya as Minister of Energy from 2001 to 2002, and as Minister of Roads, Public Works and Housing from 2003 to 2005. Odinga was appointed High Representative for Infrastructure Development at the African Union Commission in 2018.
In the National Assembly elections, the ODM won 99 of the 208 seats, with the PNU finishing second with 43 seats. The Kenya African National Union, which had ruled the country from independence until 2002 was reduced to being the fourth-largest party with only 15 seats. Only 71 of the 190 sitting MPs were re-elected, twenty ministers lost their seats and a record 15 female MPs were elected. [4]
The Kenya African National Union (KANU) is a Kenyan political party that ruled for nearly 40 years after Kenya's independence from British colonial rule in 1963 until its electoral loss in 2002. It was known as Kenya African Union (KAU) from 1944 to 1952.KAU was banned by the colonial government from 1952 to 1960.It was re-established by James Gichuru in 1960 and renamed to KANU on 14 May 1960 after a merger with Tom Mboya's Kenya Independence Movement.
There is agreement in the international community that the presidential elections were at least partially manipulated. [5] In July 2008, an exit poll commissioned by the US was released, revealing that Odinga was predicted to have won the presidency by a comfortable margin of 6%, 46% to 40%, well outside the exit poll's 1.3% margin of error. [6]
Incumbent president Mwai Kibaki declared his intention to run for re-election on 26 January 2007, although he had previously declared prior to the 2002 elections that he needed only one term as president. [7] On 16 September 2007, Kibaki announced that he would run as the candidate of a new alliance called the Party of National Unity, which would include a number of parties, including KANU, [8] [9] the Democratic Party, NARC–Kenya, FORD-Kenya, Ford–People and Shirikisho among others. [9]
The Democratic Party (DP) is a conservative political party in Kenya. The party was founded in 1991 by John Keen and Mwai Kibaki after section 2A of the constitution was repealed. At the legislative elections, 27 December 2002, the party was a partner in the National Rainbow Coalition, which won 56.1% of the popular vote and 125 out of 210 elected seats. The party itself took 36 of these seats. At the presidential elections of the same day, the party supported Mwai Kibaki, who won 62.2% and was elected. Kibaki is the leader of the DP. At the Kenyan general election, 2007, Democratic Party is part of the Party of National Unity led by President Mwai Kibaki in the chaotic 2007 general election and one of its members, Wilfred Machage, was named a cabinet minister in the half cabinet which Kibaki named prior to the formation of the Grand Coalition government.
The National Rainbow Coalition–Kenya (NARC–Kenya) is a political party in Kenya. The party was formed after the defeat of the Government sponsored Draft constitution. It was formed by National Rainbow Coalition members loyal to the government. The party, though months old, captured 3 parliamentary seats and 2 Civic seats in the by-elections of 24 July 2006 that are seen as a litmus test for the upcoming general elections for which the new party was planned to play a major role in securing reelection for president Kibaki.
Forum for the Restoration of Democracy–Kenya (FORD–Kenya) is a Kenyan political party. It was part of the National Rainbow Coalition that governed Kenya from 2003 to 2007, having ended forty years of Kenya African National Union rule. It is allied to the Coalition for Reforms and Democracy which is the main opposition coalition in Kenya's parliament and is headed by Moses Wetangula, the senator for Bungoma County.
The Orange Democratic Movement–Kenya (ODM–Kenya) alliance was expected to field the strongest challenger to Kibaki; the main parties originally affiliated to ODM–Kenya were the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and KANU. [10] At the time of the 2002 elections, the LDP had been part of the National Rainbow Coalition (NARC) movement backing Kibaki, but its ministers were dismissed from the cabinet after the 2005 constitutional referendum. [11] KANU and LDP had originally teamed up for the 2005 referendum under the banner Orange Democratic Movement, [12] but former president Daniel arap Moi was among the KANU faction opposing involvement with the ODM–Kenya coalition. [13] As a result, ODM–Kenya split in two in August 2007, one remaining as ODM–Kenya and led by Kalonzo Musyoka, the other going by the name Orange Democratic Movement (ODM). KANU subsequently left the coalition entirely, and Moi announced his support for Kibaki, his former political enemy, in late August. [14] Uhuru Kenyatta followed suit and announced his support for Kibaki in mid-September. KANU did not nominate as presidential candidate, although it contested the National Assembly elections. [15]
The Wiper Democratic Movement–Kenya (WDM-K) refers to a political party in Kenya, which originated as a result of the 2005 Kenyan constitutional referendum. It grew out of the Orange Democratic Movement Party of Kenya (ODM). It is headed by Kalonzo Musyoka, who ran for president in 2007 and served as the vice-president in the Grand Coalition of Mwai Kibaki and Raila Odinga. It is now a member of the main opposition NASA.
The Liberal Democratic Party was a political party in Kenya.
Several ODM members vied for presidency, including Musyoka, Raila Odinga, Kenyatta (before KANU's withdrawal), William Ruto, Najib Balala, Musalia Mudavadi and Joseph Nyagah. [16] Following the August 2007 split, ODM–Kenya appointed Musyoka as its candidate on 31 August and the ODM selected Odinga as its candidate on 1 September. [17] [18] [19]
Presidential candidates presented their nomination papers on 14 and 15 November to the Electoral Commission of Kenya (ECK) and nine candidates were cleared to be on the ballot in December. [20] All nine presidential candidates also ran for a parliamentary seat as required by Kenyan law; the presidential election winner needed to also win a parliamentary seat to be named president. [21]
The ninth parliament was dissolved on Monday 22 October 2007, [22] with the election date of 27 December announced on 26 October 2007 by the ECK. The ECK initially set a deadline of 19 November 2007 for submitting the candidate lists in order to prevent candidates from defecting after failing to gain nominations from their parties, but later retracted and allowed defections to minor parties. [23] The ODM, PNU and ODM–K held their primary elections on 16 November, with all three termed as chaotic and being marred by irregularities and violence. Numerous candidates defected to smaller parties after failing to get candidature by their respective parties, [24] including Nobel laureate Wangari Maathai, who failed to gain a PNU nomination, and former Interior Minister Chris Murungaru, who lost out to a little-known trader. [25]
There were 14,296,180 registered voters; 68.8% of the electorate were aged between 18–40, with the remaining 31.2% being those over 40. [21]
Kibaki began his presidential campaign on 30 September at Nyayo Stadium in Nairobi. [26] Odinga launched his campaign in Uhuru Park on 6 October 2007. [27] [28] On the same day, three ODM supporters were shot (one of them fatally), allegedly by bodyguards of Stanley Livondo, who was running as the PNU candidate for Odinga's seat in the National Assembly. Livondo was arrested, along with two of his bodyguards and later released. [28] Pius Muiru, a bishop and the leader of Kenya People's Party (KPP), officially launched his bid for the presidency on 21 October 2007 at Kamukunji grounds. [29]
Two cabinet ministers, first Health Minister Charity Ngilu and then Regional Co-operation Minister John Koech, backed Odinga in October; Kibaki dismissed Ngilu from the cabinet. [30]
A record 2,548 candidates contested the National Assembly elections, more than double the 1,033 that ran in 2002. [31] [21] The 269 female candidates was also a record. [31]
The ODM had the highest number of candidates with 190, followed by Kenya National Democratic Alliance (KENDA) with 170, the PNU (135), ODM–K (135), KADDU (97) KANU (91), Safina (88), NARC (73), the Democratic Party (86) and NARC–Kenya (59). A total of 108 parties fielded parliamentary candidates, another record. [31] For the first time, no party fielded a candidate in every constituency; every previous election had seen KANU contest every seat. [31] The Kitutu Masaba Constituency had the highest number of candidates at 33 and all 210 constituencies had at least two candidates, meaning that there were no uncontested seats, another first. [21]
Opinion polls in late October put support for Odinga at 50%, with Kibaki at 39%, and Musyoka at 8%. [32] A poll released in early November put Odinga at 45%, Kibaki at 41% and Musyoka at 11%, while on 23 November a poll placed Odinga and Kibaki at about the same level, with 43.6% and 43.3% respectively. [33]
Date | Pollster | Kibaki | Musyoka | Odinga | Mudavadi | Ruto | Kenyatta |
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October 2006 | Steadman International | 41% | 20% | 13% | 3% | 5% | |
December 2006 | Steadman International | 42% | 20% | 14% | 3% | 5% | |
March 2007 | Steadman International | 51% | 14% | 17% | 2% | 2% | 2% |
April 2007 | IRI | 44.3% | 15.3% | 18.7% | 2.7% | 2.6% | 3.5% |
June 2007 | RMS | 45% | 14% | 28% | 4% | 3% | 4% |
July 2007 | Steadman International | 45% | 11% | 25% | 3% | 2% | 2% |
August 2007 | Infotrak/Harris Interactive | 42% | 11% | 25% | 8% | 6% | 1% |
August 2007 | Steadman International | 47% | 13% | 36% | 1% | 1% | |
September 2007 | Steadman International [ permanent dead link ] | 38% | 8% | 47% | |||
13 October 2007 | Steadman International | 37% | 8% | 53% | |||
23 October 2007 | Steadman International | 39% | 8% | 50% | |||
9 November 2007 | Steadman International | 41% | 11% | 45% | |||
21 November 2007 | Consumer Insight | 41.4% | 14.7% | 40.7% | |||
17 November 2007 | Gallup | 42% | 11% | 45% | |||
23 November 2007 | Steadman International [ permanent dead link ] | 43.3% | 11.4% | 43.6% | |||
7 December 2007 | Steadman International | 42% | 10% | 46% | |||
18 December 2007 | Steadman International | 43% | 10% | 45% |
Early results published by the Kenyan media gave Raila Odinga a narrow lead of 1,691,679 votes against Kibaki's 1,222,725 in 69 of the country’s 210 constituencies. [34] Odinga held a strong lead in vote counting on 28 December, [35] and the ODM declared victory on 29 December; [36] however, as more results were announced on the same day, the gap between the two candidates narrowed. [35] [36] Early on 30 December, Odinga accused the government of fraud, urged Kibaki to concede defeat, and called for a recount. [37] The ECK declared Kibaki the winner later on 30 December, placing him ahead of Odinga by about 232,000 votes. [38] [39] According to Odinga, at least 300,000 votes for Kibaki were falsely included in his total. [40] ECK Chairman Samuel Kivuitu said that while irregularities had occurred, they were a matter for the courts, not the Electoral Commission. [41] Following the Commission's declaration of his victory, Kibaki was sworn in for his second term later on the same day, [39] [42] saying that he had been told by his people that he had won, calling for the "verdict of the people" to be respected and for "healing and reconciliation" to begin. [39]
Kivuitu said that there were some problems with the count, noting that in one constituency voter turnout was reported as 115%, [43] although this was later clarified by Kivuitu appearing in an interview by Nation Television due to a double entry of one polling station in Maragua Constituency on the parliamentary tally and not the presidential tally. According to the European Union's head election observer, Alexander Graf Lambsdorff, the elections were "flawed" [35] and the ECK had failed to establish "the credibility of the tallying process to the satisfaction of all parties and candidates." [44] The United Kingdom's Foreign Secretary, David Miliband, said that he had "real concerns" about the elections. While the United States initially congratulated Kibaki and called for the results to be respected, [45] it also expressed concern, [46] and on 2 January 2008 a spokesman for the US State Department declined to confirm US recognition of Kibaki's victory. [47] In a telex from then US Embassy in Nairobi to the State Department in Washington DC [released in July 2012], US Ambassador Michael Ranneberger set out five scenarios as to who really won the election. He wrote, ‘In all cases the margin of victory for either side is slim and ultimately unknowable’. The telex also noted that there was ‘evidence of rigging on both sides’ [48] and. [49] Kivuitu said on 2 January that he had been pressured by PNU and ODM–K (Kibaki's and Kalonzo Musyoka's parties) into announcing the results without delay, declaring Kibaki the winner; claiming that he did not personally know who really won. [50]
Within minutes of the Commission's declaration of Kibaki's victory, tribe-based rioting and violence, primarily directed against Kikuyus, broke out across Kenya, [35] and the government suspended live television coverage for some days. [35] [45] [51] [52] Odinga alleged that "a clique of people around Kibaki" sought to rig the election, but said that democracy "is unstoppable like the flow of the Nile". The ODM announced its intention to hold a ceremony on 31 December in which Odinga would be declared the "people's president", but police said that this could incite violence and that Odinga could be arrested if the ceremony occurred. [45] Odinga then delayed this, but called for a million-strong rally on 3 January 2008 and for his supporters to wear black armbands as a show of mourning. [53] [54]
Odinga said that the ODM would not negotiate with Kibaki unless he resigned, because to do so would mean acknowledging Kibaki's legitimacy; he also said that, unless stopped, the "ruling clique" could rig the next elections in five years as well, and that he was not afraid of being arrested, having been jailed many times in the past. [55] For his part, Kibaki emphasised the importance of peace, stability, and tolerance in his 2008 New Year's message, speaking of the elections as a concluded event and warning that law-breakers would be punished. [56]
Candidate | Party | Votes | % |
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Mwai Kibaki | Party of National Unity | 4,584,721 | 46.42 |
Raila Odinga | Orange Democratic Movement | 4,352,993 | 44.07 |
Kalonzo Musyoka | Orange Democratic Movement–Kenya | 879,903 | 8.91 |
Joseph Karani | Kenya Patriotic Trust Party | 21,171 | 0.21 |
Pius Muiru | Kenya Peoples' Party | 9,667 | 0.10 |
Nazlin Omar | Workers Congress Party of Kenya | 8,624 | 0.09 |
Kenneth Matiba | Saba Saba Asili | 8,046 | 0.08 |
David Waweru Ng'ethe | Chama Cha Uma | 5,976 | 0.06 |
Nixon Kukubo | Republican Party of Kenya | 5,927 | 0.06 |
Invalid/blank votes | – | ||
Total | 9,877,028 | 100 | |
Registered voters/turnout | 14,296,180 | 96.1 | |
Source: African Elections Database |
Preliminary results showed that Vice-President Moody Awori and Wangari Maathai both lost their seats. Other notable politicians with the same fate included Mutahi Kagwe, Musikari Kombo, Simeon Nyachae, Nicholas Biwott, Chris Murungaru, Mukhisa Kituyi, Raphael Tuju, Kipruto Kirwa, Njenga Karume and Gideon Moi, the son of former president Daniel arap Moi. [57] [58] [59] [60]
The elections were cancelled in Kamukunji and Kilgoris. [61]
Party | Votes | % | Seats | +/– |
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Orange Democratic Movement | 2,973,415 | 30.83 | 99 | New |
Party of National Unity | 2,014,413 | 20.89 | 43 | New |
Orange Democratic Movement – Kenya | 633,880 | 6.57 | 16 | New |
Kenya African National Union | 613,864 | 6.36 | 15 | –49 |
Safina | 366,629 | 3.80 | 5 | +3 |
National Rainbow Coalition | 328,945 | 3.41 | 3 | – |
Democratic Party | 237,205 | 2.46 | 2 | –37 |
FORD–People | 192,489 | 2.00 | 3 | –11 |
Kenya African Democratic Development Union | 190,051 | 1.97 | 1 | – |
Kenya National Democratic Alliance | 162,538 | 1.69 | 1 | +1 |
NARC–Kenya | 158,752 | 1.65 | 4 | New |
Sisi Kwa Sisi | 149,933 | 1.55 | 2 | 0 |
Chama Cha Uzalendo | 115,243 | 1.19 | 2 | – |
United Democratic Movement | 107,831 | 1.12 | 1 | +1 |
Mazingira Green Party of Kenya | 95,227 | 0.99 | 1 | +1 |
New Ford Kenya | 88,562 | 0.92 | 2 | New |
Party of Independent Candidates of Kenya | 85,348 | 0.88 | 2 | +2 |
FORD–Kenya | 75,145 | 0.78 | 1 | –20 |
FORD–Asili | 66,013 | 0.68 | 1 | –1 |
National Labour Party | 51,887 | 0.54 | 1 | – |
The Independent Party | 50,797 | 0.53 | 0 | – |
Social Democratic Party of Kenya | 39,871 | 0.41 | 0 | 0 |
Kenya National Congress | 39,840 | 0.41 | 0 | 0 |
Party of Hope | 35,962 | 0.37 | 0 | – |
National Patriotic Party of Kenya | 33,289 | 0.35 | 0 | – |
Labour Party of Kenya | 33,008 | 0.34 | 0 | – |
Republican Alliance Party of Kenya | 31,331 | 0.32 | 0 | – |
KADU–Asili | 30,462 | 0.32 | 1 | – |
Agano Party | 30,085 | 0.31 | 0 | – |
New Sisi Kwa Sisi Kenya | 28,893 | 0.30 | 0 | – |
Chama Cha Mwananchi | 27,438 | 0.28 | 0 | – |
Forum for Republican Party | 26,333 | 0.27 | 0 | – |
United Democratic Party of Kenya | 23,870 | 0.25 | 0 | – |
Green African Party | 20,038 | 0.21 | 0 | – |
Dynamic Development Party | 19,972 | 0.21 | 0 | – |
United Democrats of Peace And Integrity in Kenya | 19,648 | 0.20 | 0 | – |
Community Development Party | 18,994 | 0.20 | 0 | – |
Farmers Party | 18,985 | 0.20 | 0 | – |
Federal Party of Kenya | 17,491 | 0.18 | 0 | – |
Peoples Democratic Party | 15,655 | 0.16 | 1 | +1 |
National Integrity Party | 15,443 | 0.16 | 0 | – |
Republican Liberty Party | 15,379 | 0.16 | 0 | – |
Shirikisho Party of Kenya | 15,228 | 0.16 | 0 | – |
New Democrats | 14,986 | 0.16 | 0 | – |
Peoples Party of Kenya | 14,892 | 0.15 | 1 | +1 |
Peoples' Solidarity Union of Kenya | 14,315 | 0.15 | 0 | – |
New Revival Generation Party | 14,302 | 0.15 | 0 | – |
United People's Congress | 12,750 | 0.13 | 0 | – |
Pambazuka Party of Kenya | 12,390 | 0.13 | 0 | – |
Kenya Citizens Congress | 12,347 | 0.13 | 0 | – |
Growth and Development Party | 11,786 | 0.12 | 0 | – |
Social Party for Advancement and Reforms – Kenya | 11,764 | 0.12 | 0 | – |
National Democratic Alliance | 11,357 | 0.12 | 0 | – |
Kenya Social Congress | 11,223 | 0.12 | 0 | 0 |
Liberal Democratic Movement | 10,886 | 0.11 | 0 | – |
Republican Party of Kenya | 10,494 | 0.11 | 0 | – |
Generation Alliance Party of Kenya | 9,808 | 0.10 | 0 | – |
Daraja Ya Wakenya Party | 9,719 | 0.10 | 0 | – |
National Alliance Party | 9,112 | 0.09 | 0 | – |
Saba Saba Asili | 8,301 | 0.09 | 0 | – |
Kifagio Party of Kenya | 8,106 | 0.08 | 0 | – |
Progressive Party of Kenya | 8,081 | 0.08 | 0 | – |
Kenya People's Party | 8,067 | 0.08 | 0 | – |
Chama Cha Uma Party | 7,367 | 0.08 | 0 | – |
New Kanu Alliance Party of Kenya | 7,010 | 0.07 | 0 | – |
Mass Party of Kenya | 6,600 | 0.07 | 0 | – |
National Progressive Party | 6,106 | 0.06 | 0 | – |
Vipa Progressive Alliance | 5,652 | 0.06 | 0 | – |
Common Wealth Development Party of Kenya | 5,573 | 0.06 | 0 | – |
Workers Congress Party of Kenya | 5,386 | 0.06 | 0 | – |
New Aspiration Party | 5,172 | 0.05 | 0 | – |
Democratic Representative Party | 5,020 | 0.05 | 0 | – |
Kenya Affiliated Democratic Unity | 4,531 | 0.05 | 0 | – |
Kenya Nationalist Peoples Democratic Party | 4,099 | 0.04 | 0 | – |
Freedom Party of Kenya | 3,795 | 0.04 | 0 | – |
Movement for Democratic Advancement Party of Kenya | 2,496 | 0.03 | 0 | – |
Citizen Democratic Party of Kenya | 2,485 | 0.03 | 0 | – |
Democratic Labour Party of Kenya | 2,439 | 0.03 | 0 | – |
Communal Democracy Party of Kenya | 2,347 | 0.02 | 0 | – |
National Dynamic Development Party | 2,252 | 0.02 | 0 | – |
National Renewal People's Party | 2,009 | 0.02 | 0 | – |
Kenya Patriotic Trust Party | 1,878 | 0.02 | 0 | – |
The National Integration Party of Kenya | 1,799 | 0.02 | 0 | – |
Kenya Union of National Alliance of Peace | 1,457 | 0.02 | 0 | – |
National Party of Kenya | 1,339 | 0.01 | 0 | – |
Chama Cha Muafaka Na Mwangaza | 1,250 | 0.01 | 0 | – |
Democracy Assistance Party | 1,220 | 0.01 | 0 | – |
National Liberation Party | 1,089 | 0.01 | 0 | – |
National Conservative Party of Kenya | 1,081 | 0.01 | 0 | – |
Chama Cha Utu | 985 | 0.01 | 0 | – |
Allied Democratic Party of Kenya | 976 | 0.01 | 0 | – |
Alliance for the Restoration of Democracy in Kenya | 923 | 0.01 | 0 | – |
Kenya National Liberation Party | 898 | 0.01 | 0 | – |
Moral Integrity Party | 885 | 0.01 | 0 | – |
Party for Economic Change And Democracy | 879 | 0.01 | 0 | – |
The Nuru Party | 832 | 0.01 | 0 | – |
Green Social Democratic Party of Kenya | 706 | 0.01 | 0 | – |
Kenya Cultural Alliance | 699 | 0.01 | 0 | – |
National Star Party of Kenya | 691 | 0.01 | 0 | – |
Social Welfare Alliance Party of Kenya | 620 | 0.01 | 0 | – |
Wakulima Party of Kenya | 598 | 0.01 | 0 | – |
Jubilee Peoples Party of Kenya | 547 | 0.01 | 0 | – |
Muungano Party | 517 | 0.01 | 0 | – |
Pan Africa Assemblies | 475 | 0.00 | 0 | – |
Reform Party of Kenya | 390 | 0.00 | 0 | – |
Forum for Orange Democratic Change Party | 318 | 0.00 | 0 | – |
Peoples Patriotic Party of Kenya | 301 | 0.00 | 0 | – |
Democratic Community Party | 233 | 0.00 | 0 | – |
Restoration Democrats of Kenya | 219 | 0.00 | 0 | – |
Universal Democratic Party of Kenya | 204 | 0.00 | 0 | – |
Kenya Political Caucus Party of Kenya | 203 | 0.00 | 0 | – |
Kenya Peoples Convention Party | 181 | 0.00 | 0 | – |
The National Republican Party of Kenya | 172 | 0.00 | 0 | – |
Kenya Republican Reformation Party | 76 | 0.00 | 0 | – |
Movement for Democratic Advancement Party | 62 | 0.00 | 0 | – |
Union of Democratic Party | 50 | 0.00 | 0 | – |
United Party of Democracy | 46 | 0.00 | 0 | – |
Vacant | – | – | 2 | – |
Invalid/blank votes | – | – | – | |
Total | 9,645,206 | 100 | 210 | 0 |
Registered voters/turnout | – | – | ||
Source: IDE |
Kibaki, of the Kikuyu tribe, and Odinga, of the Luo tribe, were supported by the two largest ethnic groups in Kenya. Fifteen minutes after Kibaki was announced president, Luo began violent attacks on Kikuyu. Slums were the first places affected by the political outrage, with hundreds of Kikuyu homes burned and Kikuyu families forced to grab their belongings and flee. Within a day, nearly all businesses were closed and the usually bustling streets of Nairobi were empty. During January and February 2008, hundreds of thousands of people were displaced from their homes, and more than 1,000 people died from the post-election violence. Crime exploded in densely-populated areas, such as Luoland, settlements in the Rift Valley, and intra-urban slums in Mombasa. In Kisumu and parts of Nairobi, the streets saw constant rioting until the end of January. Farms were looted and roads were blocked, leaving people unable to work, farmers and commuters alike. Many members of large ethnic groups attacked anyone whom they felt didn't belong; minorities and people that had come from other countries were common targets. Some people even fled to Uganda and other nearby countries to escape the social unrest. One sector greatly affected by the political unrest was tourism; flights and tours were cancelled, companies withdrew from Kenya, and many people lost their job due to lay-offs. The international media covered the tragedies extensively, giving the outside world the impression that the entire country was amidst a bloody battle, when truly, parts of Kenya were untouched by violence. The loss Kenya suffered from the lack of visitation equals approximately $47.6 million. [62] The fragile state of the economy affected surrounding countries as well.
After being sworn in as President, Kibaki named a partial cabinet on 8 January 2008, composed of 17 MPs from his party PNU and ODM–Kenya which entered into a coalition agreement, along with KANU. A number of further cabinet slots were left temporarily open, presumably to give space for negotiations with the opposition ODM, which immediately challenged the constitutionality of the new government.
Position | Minister |
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Vice-President | Stephen Kalonzo Musyoka |
Minister for Home Affairs | |
Minister of State for Defence | Mohamed Yusuf Haji |
Minister of State for Provincial Administration and Internal Security | |
Minister for Education | Sam Ongeri |
Minister for Energy | Kiraitu Murungi |
Minister for Finance | Amos Kimunya |
Minister for Foreign Affairs | Moses Wetangula |
Minister for Information and Communications | Samuel Poghisio |
Minister for Justice and Constitutional Affairs | Martha Karua |
Minister for Local Government | Uhuru Kenyatta |
Minister for Public Service | Asman Kamama |
Minister for Roads and Public Works | John Michuki |
Minister for Science and Technology | Noah Wekesa |
Minister of State for Special Programmes | Naomi Shaban |
Minister for the East African Community | Wilfred Machage |
Minister for Transport | Chirau Ali Mwakwere |
Minister for Water and Irrigation | John Munyes |
By March 2008, the country was starting to recover and by April, it was stable. Kibaki remained President and Odinga was named Prime Minister. The National Assembly results were cancelled in three of the 210 constituencies. Prior to 2007, hostility surrounding politics in Kenya existed on a much smaller scale. In 1991, when multi-party politics was introduced, violence became known as an election-time tradition. However, the fighting and aggression demonstrated in December, January, and February 2007 was and has been unmatched by any election related uprising. In August 2012, the Nakuru County Peace Accord was signed, a treaty designed to address sources of ethnic conflict and violence in the Rift Valley region of Kenya.
Uhuru Muigai Kenyatta is a Kenyan politician and businessman who is the fourth and current President of the Republic of Kenya. He served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Gatundu South from 2002 to 2013. Currently the party leader and a member of the Jubilee Party of Kenya, he was previously involved with The National Alliance and before that the Kenya African National Union.
Stephen Kalonzo Musyoka is a Kenyan politician who was the tenth Vice-President of Kenya from 2008 to 2013. Musyoka served in the government under President Daniel arap Moi and was Minister for Foreign Affairs from 1993 until 1998; subsequently, under President Mwai Kibaki, he was Minister of Foreign Affairs again from 2003 to 2004, then Minister of the Environment from 2004 to 2005. He was an unsuccessful candidate in the 2007 presidential election, after which he was appointed as Vice-President by Kibaki in January 2008.
William Kipchirchir Samoei Arap Ruto is a Kenyan politician who has been Deputy President of Kenya since 2013. He served as the Acting President of Kenya between 5 and 8 October 2014 while President Uhuru Kenyatta was away at the Hague.He previously served in various ministerial positions including the Ministry of Home Affairs, the Ministry of Agriculture and the Ministry of Higher Education Science and Technology. He was Secretary General of KANU, the former ruling political party, and MP for Eldoret North Constituency between December 1997 and January 2013. He won the seat in the 1997 Kenyan election after defeating Reuben Chesire. He was appointed to the position of Assistant Minister in the Office of the President by President Daniel arap Moi in 1998. He was promoted to be Minister for Home Affairs in August 2002. He also previously served as the Chairman of the Parliamentary Select Committee on Constitutional Reform in the 9th Parliament.
Wycliffe Musalia Mudavadi is a Kenyan politician, who served as the seventh Vice President of Kenya in 2002 and as Deputy Prime Minister from 2008- 2012 May when he resigned officially to join the presidential race. He is the current Party Leader of Amani National Congress (ANC) after decamping from the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) led by the prime minister Raila Odinga in 2012 where before his resignation he served as the deputy party leader.He was third in the Kenyan general election, 2013.
The Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) is a centre-left political party in Kenya. It is the successor of a grassroots people's movement which was formed during the 2005 Kenyan constitutional referendum campaign. This movement separated in August 2007 into the Orange Democratic Movement Party of Kenya and the Wiper Democratic Movement – Kenya.
George Musengi Saitoti, E.G.H. was a Kenyan politician, businessman and American- and British-trained economist, mathematician and development policy thinker.
Majimbo is a Swahili term that is commonly used in Kenya to refer to the idea of political devolution of power to the country's regions. It is alleged by critics, including former vice-president Oginga Odinga in his book Not Yet Uhuru, to have been coined by European settlers in Kenya's White Highlands region, around the time of independence in 1963, who preferred to retain an autonomous, ethnically-based governance over the region. It has also been alleged, by some of its critics, that majimbo is a pretext for the type of communal violence that has plagued Kenya's elections especially since the return of multiparty politics. In his auto biography titled Illusions of Power, one G.G Kariuki, a long serving KANU Member of Parliament, goes as far as to allege the existence of a plot to instigate communal violence in Kenya's independence elections by supporters of a Majimbo system of government.
The 2007–08 Kenyan crisis was a political, economic, and humanitarian crisis that erupted in Kenya after former President Mwai Kibaki was declared the winner of the presidential election held on December 27, 2007. Supporters of Kibaki's opponent, Raila Odinga of the Orange Democratic Movement, alleged electoral manipulation. This was widely confirmed by international observers, as being perpetrated by both parties in the election.
The 9th Parliament of the Republic of Kenya was opened by elected President Mwai Kibaki on February 18, 2003. It was the first time that the formerly-dominant Kenya African National Union of Daniel arap Moi was in the minority. The triumphant NARC, which dominated in the general elections of 2002 was in the majority, led by Kibaki.
The 10th Parliament of Kenya saw the National Assembly opened on 15 January 2008. This following the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) of Raila Odinga winning a majority in the 2007 parliamentary elections. Raila was a candidate in the presidential elections, which resulted in a controversial victory for Mwai Kibaki of the Party of National Unity. The opening of the parliament was fraught with jeers, cheers and brawls between the opposing parties; Mwai Kibaki was greeted by the ODM members with silence and boos, while Raila was greeted by PNU members with accusations of genocide.
Kipkalya Kiprono Kones was a Kenyan politician who served as a minister during the 1990s and was briefly Minister of Roads in 2008. He was a member of the National Assembly of Kenya from 1988 to 2008.
The National Alliance (TNA) was a political party in Kenya. It attained its current identity when it was taken over by Uhuru Kenyatta and rebranded as the vehicle for his 2012 presidential campaign.
The National Super Alliance, known by the abbreviation NASA, is a Kenyan political coalition of opposition center-left parties that was formed in January 2017. These parties include the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM), Wiper Democratic Movement (Wiper), Forum for the Restoration of Democracy - Kenya (FORD-Kenya), Amani National Congress (ANC), National Rainbow Coalition, Progressive Party of Kenya, Chama Cha Uzalendo (CCU), and the Muungano Party (MP).
Tom R was the main opposition candidate in the 2007 presidential election, running against incumbent Mwai Kibaki. [3] In the subsequent presidential election 5 years later he placed second against Uhuru Kenyatta, garnering 5,340,546 votes, which represented 43.28% of the total votes cast.[4] He made another run for the presidency in August 2017 against Uhuru Kenyatta and lost [5] after the chairman of the electoral body declared Uhuru Kenyatta as the winner with 54% of the votes cast to Raila's 43%.[6] This outcome was eventually annulled by the Supreme Court following findings that the election was marred by "illegalities and irregularities". A subsequent fresh election ordered by the Court was won by Uhuru Kenyatta when Raila declined to participate citing inadequate reforms to enable a fair process in the repeat poll.