Kenya presidential election in 1992
The 1992 Kenyan presidential election took place on December 29, 1992 and was the first direct election of a President of Kenya . The previous presidents of the country were each determined by the Kenyan National Assembly . The election coincided with the Kenyan parliamentary elections in 1992 and was overshadowed by allegations of electoral fraud and targeted ethnic violence in the Rift Valley province . Human Rights Watch accused various prominent Kenyan politicians, including President Daniel Arap Moi and Deputy Prime Minister George Saitoti , of causing and organizing the violence. Seven candidates competed against each other, the winner of the election was Daniel Arap Moi, who had ruled Kenya for 14 years at the time.
Results
total
| candidate | Political party | be right | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| Daniel arap Moi | Kenya African National Union | 1,962,866 | 36.4 |
| Kenneth Matiba | Ford – Asili | 1,404,266 | 26.0 |
| Mwai Kibaki | Democratic Party | 1,050,617 | 19.5 |
| Jaramogi Oginga Odinga | Ford – Kenya | 944.197 | 17.5 |
| George Anyona | Kenya National Congress | 15,393 | 0.3 |
| John Harun Mwau | PICK | 6,449 | 0.1 |
| David Mukaru Ng'ang'a | Kenya Social Congress | 14,253 | 0.3 |
| Total | 5,398,037 | 100 | |
By province
The highest percentage of a candidate in a province is marked in bold.
| province | Moi | % | Matiba | % | Kibaki | % | Odinga | % | Total | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nairobi | 62.402 | 16.6 | 165,533 | 44.1 | 69,715 | 18.6 | 75,898 | 20.2 | 373,548 | |||
| Central | 21,882 | 2.1 | 621,368 | 60.1 | 372.937 | 36.1 | 10,765 | 1.0 | 1,026,952 | |||
| Eastern | 290.494 | 36.8 | 80,515 | 10.2 | 398.727 | 50.5 | 13,064 | 1.7 | 782,800 | |||
| North Eastern | 57,400 | 78.1 | 7,460 | 10.1 | 3,297 | 4.5 | 5,237 | 7.1 | 73.394 | |||
| Coast | 200,596 | 64.1 | 35,598 | 11.4 | 23,766 | 7.6 | 50,516 | 16.1 | 310.476 | |||
| Rift Valley | 994.844 | 67.8 | 274.011 | 18.7 | 111,098 | 7.6 | 83,945 | 5.7 | 1,463,898 | |||
| Western film | 217.375 | 40.9 | 192.859 | 36.3 | 19,115 | 3.6 | 94,851 | 17.9 | 524,200 | |||
| Nyanza | 111,873 | 14.4 | 26,922 | 3.3 | 51,962 | 6.4 | 609.921 | 74.7 | 800,678 | |||
| Total | 1,956,866 | 1,404,266 | 1,050,617 | 944.197 | 5,398,037 | |||||||
| Source: Multi-party Politics in Kenya | ||||||||||||
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- ^ Human Rights Watch (1993), Divide and Rule: State Sponsored Ethnic Violence in Kenya
- ↑ David Throup, Charles Hornsby: Multi-Party Politics in Kenya: The Kenyatta and Moi States & the Triumph of the system in the 1992 Election . Long House Publishing Services, Cumbria, UK , New York 1998, ISBN 0-8214-1206-X . , p. 435.
