2007 Kenyan general election

2007 Kenyan general election

27 December 2007
Registered	14,296,180
Presidential election
Nominee Mwai Kibaki Raila Odinga Kalonzo Musyoka Party PNU ODM ODM–Kenya Popular vote 4,584,721 4,352,993 879,903 Percentage 46.42% 44.07% 8.91%
Results by province
President before election Mwai Kibaki PNU Elected President Mwai Kibaki PNU
Parliamentary election
All 210 seats in the National Assembly 106 seats needed for a majority
Party Leader Vote % Seats +/– ODM Raila Odinga 30.83 99 New PNU Mwai Kibaki 20.89 43 New ODM–Kenya Kalonzo Musyoka 6.57 16 New KANU Uhuru Kenyatta 6.36 15 −49 Safina Jimmy Wanjigi 3.80 5 +3 NARC Charity Ngilu 3.41 3 0 Democratic Joseph K. Munyao 2.46 2 −37 FORD–People Simeon Nyachae 2.00 3 −11 KADDU Cyrus Jirongo 1.97 1 0 KENDA Kamlesh Pattni 1.69 1 +1 NARC–Kenya Martha Karua 1.65 4 New Sisi Kwa Sisi – 1.55 2 0 CCU Wavinya Ndeti 1.19 2 0 UDM Ali Roba 1.12 1 +1 MGPK Wangarĩ Maathai 0.99 1 +1 New Ford Kenya Eugene Wamalwa 0.92 2 New PICK John Harun Mwau 0.88 2 +2 FORD–Kenya Moses Wetang'ula 0.78 1 −20 FORD–Asili Kenneth Matiba 0.68 1 −1 NLP Ananiah Mwaboza 0.54 1 0 KADU–Asili Francis Bayah 0.32 1 0 PDP Richard Momoima 0.16 1 +1 PPK David Mwaura 0.15 1 +1 This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below. Speaker of the National Assembly before Speaker of the National Assembly after Francis ole Kaparo KANU Kenneth Marende ODM

General elections were held in Kenya on 27 December 2007. Voters elected the President and members of the National Assembly. They coincided with the 2007 Kenyan local elections.

Incumbent Mwai Kibaki, running on a Party of National Unity (PNU) ticket, defeated Raila Odinga, leader of the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) and Kalonzo Musyoka of Orange Democratic Movement–Kenya. The elections were strongly marked by ethnic 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, the 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