2002 Kenyan general election

none Kenya 1997 Kenyan general election 1997 2002 12 27 y 2007 Kenyan general election 2007 yes Presidential election presidential 57.18% 130x130px Mwai Kibaki at 8th EAC summit, November 2006.jpg Mwai Kibaki National Rainbow Coalition 3,646,277 62.20% Uhuru Kenyatta.jpg Uhuru Kenyatta Kenya African National Union 1,835,890 31.32% 3x4.svg Simeon Nyachae Forum for the Restoration of Democracy – People 345,152 5.89% 2002 Kenyan presidential election - Results by province.svg Results by province President Daniel arap Moi KANU Mwai Kibaki NARC General elections were held in Kenya on 27 December 2002.Kenya: 2002 National Assembly election results EISA Voters elected the president, members of the National Assembly and local officials. Mwai Kibaki of the National Rainbow Coalition (NARC) was elected, defeating Uhuru Kenyatta of the Kenya African National Union (KANU) and Simeon Nyachae of FORD–People. Incumbent president Daniel arap Moi was ineligible to pursue a third term due to the two-term limit in the Constitution of Kenya. This was the first truly free general election held in Kenya since independence in 1964; several by-elections were held in 1966 before the onset of de facto one-party rule in 1969. The general election saw the end of the long-standing dominance of the KANU,Ndegwa Stephen N 2003 Kenya: Third Time Lucky? https://doi.org/10.1353/jod.2003.0060 Journal of Democracy 14 3 145–158 10.1353/jod.2003.0060 1086-3214 subscription which had governed the country under semi-authoritarian rule since independence in 1963, including 23 years as the only legal party. The National Rainbow Coalition won a majority in the National Assembly. Background Incumbent president Moi was constitutionally barred from running in the 2002 presidential elections. Some of his supporters floated the idea of amending the constitution to allow him to run for a third term, but Moi preferred to retire, choosing Uhuru Kenyatta, the son of Kenya's first president, as his successor.https://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/13/world/kenya-s-leader-to-step-down-but-not-out.html Kenya's Leader to Step Down but Not Out Marc Lacey 13 October 2002 New York Times In protest of Moi's decision, a group of disappointed KANU presidential aspirants quit KANU and formed the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP). In preparation for the 2002 elections, Kibaki's Democratic Party affiliated with several other opposition parties, including the LDP and National Alliance Party of Kenya (NAK), to form the National Rainbow Coalition (NARC). On 14 October 2002, at a large opposition rally in Uhuru Park in Nairobi, Kibaki was nominated as the NARC candidate after Raila Odinga declared Kibaki Tosha! (Kibaki is the one!).http://www.nation.co.ke/News/-/1056/465904/-/tkag72/-/index.html The deal and deal makers in Kibaki's 2002 victory Nation.co.ke 1 June 2010 Results President Mwai Kibaki National Rainbow Coalition 3646277 Uhuru Kenyatta Kenya African National Union 1835890 Simeon Nyachae FORD–People 345152 James Orengo Social Democratic Party 24524 David Ng'ethe Chama Cha Uma 10061 114006 10451150 IFES National Assembly File:Kenya National Assembly 2002.svg NationalRainbowCoalition 5 Liberal Democratic Party 59 New Democratic Party 39 0 FORD–Kenya 21 +4 National Party of Kenya 6 New y 125 +69 Kenya African National Union 64 –43 FORD–People 14 +11 FORD–Asili 2 +1 Safina 2 –3 Sisi Kwa Sisi 2 New Shirikisho Party of Kenya 1 0 Other parties 0 – Appointed members 12 0 0 10451150 African Elections Database Of the 12 appointed seats, seven were members of the National Rainbow Coalition, four were members of KANU and one was a member of FORD–People.Elections in Kenya https://web.archive.org/web/20211008161152/https://africanelections.tripod.com/ke.html 2021-10-08 African Elections Database See also 9th Parliament of Kenya References Kenya Category:Elections in Kenya General Category:National Assembly (Kenya) Category:Presidential elections in Kenya Category:Election and referendum articles with incomplete results