Presidential results in 6 constituencies announced by Chebukati

Raila won in three out of six constituencies results verified and announced by IEBC.

In Summary

• The former Prime Minister trounced his main rival Deputy President William Ruto in Lamu East, Kathiani and Kangundo Constituencies.

• The DP on the other hand beat Odinga in both  Webuye East Baringo Central and Ol Jororok Constituencies.

Presidential results for 6 constituencies announced by Chebukati
Presidential results for 6 constituencies announced by Chebukati
Image: WILLIAM WANYOIKE

Azimio Presidential candidate Raila Odinga won in three out of six constituencies results verified and announced by IEBC on Friday morning.

The former Prime Minister trounced his main rival Deputy President William Ruto in Lamu East, Kathiani and Kangundo Constituencies.

The DP on the other hand beat Odinga in both  Webuye East Baringo Central and Ol Jororok Constituencies.

The UDA presidential candidate now leads the race to succeed retiring President Uhuru Kenyatta with 104,517 with Odinga coming second with 99,672 votes from the six constituencies so far tallied.

In Webuye Odinga garnered 13, 720 votes while Ruto got 16, 412 votes.

Ruto is ahead in Baringo Central with 33,162 votes against Raila’s 1,656 votes. Agano’s David Mwaure and George Wajackoyah of Roots Party got 26 and 62 votes respectively.

The DP also leads Odinga in Ol Jororok (Nyandarua County) with 31,982 votes with Raila coming a distant second getting 7,579 votes.

In Kathiani constituency, Machakos County the ODM leader garnered 30,984 votes beating Ruto who managed 6,624 votes.

The fifth-time presidential candidate also took lead in Kangundo, Machakos County with 29,808 votes against Ruto’s 8405 votes.

In Lamu East Constituency, Raila won with 9564 beating Ruto who got 4639 votes.

While releasing the results, IEBC chairman Wafula Chebukati warned political parties conducting parallel tallying to desist from any attempts to declare themselves winners.

“We allowed candidates to do their own tallying and their tallying is for their own consumption. The candidates should not attempt to declare themselves,” Chebukati said.

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