More than a quarter of Kenyans believe that elections have not been free and fair.
A survey released by Tifa on Wednesday shows 48 per cent of the respondents hold the negative view that elections in Kenya are “neither free nor fair”.
Only 16 per cent feel that there is integrity in the electoral process.
Thirty-three per cent of the respondents state that elections have been somewhat free and fair, while three per cent are not sure.
In a correlation, Tifa noted that 56 per cent of the Broad Based Government (BBG) opponents hold the view that elections have no integrity.
Only nine per cent of the anti-BBG respondents feel that elections are free and fair.
According to Tifa Polls, BBG supporters express decidedly more positive attitudes than those who oppose it.
This is even if only one-third of former attest that Kenyan elections are “very free and fair”, being 32 per cent, though this figure is more than three times greater than it is among BBG opponents, which is nine per cent.
On broad-based government, only about one-fifth express support(22 per cent), with more than twice as many saying they oppose it (54 per cent).
Tifa noted that it is unclear whether the remaining one-fifth who declined to express an opinion (22 per cent) did so because they have mixed feelings about the BBG, have a negative view but were too uncomfortable to express it, or because they felt they did not have enough information to have a firm opinion one way or the other.
The Survey was conducted between May 2 and May 6, 2025, among 2,024 respondents across nine zones.
This includes Central Rift, Coast, Lower Eastern, Mt Kenya, Nairobi, Northern, Nyanza, South Rift, and Western.
It was conducted through Telephonic Interviews (with respondents whose contacts were collected through face-to-face (i.e., household-based interviews)
The interviews were conducted in Kiswahili (mainly) and English.
The survey has a margin of error of +/- 2.17 per cent.
