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Mount Kenya Is Voting Against the Government It Elected
A region that delivered decisively in 2022 is producing six-to-one by-election defeats for the same party four years later. Kenyan politics does this, and it is worth understanding why.
A New Party Has Won Its First Seat. What Happens Next Is Harder.
Winning a by-election proves a party can mobilise in one place. Contesting 1,880 seats is a different problem, and it is a recruitment problem before it is a political one.
DCP Wins Ol Kalou by 35,440 to 5,450
A margin of better than six to one against the party of government, in a region that delivered decisively for it four years ago. The number is the story.
The Ol Kalou By-Election Is Next Week
A single parliamentary seat in Nyandarua has become a proxy for the argument about who represents Mount Kenya. Both sides know it, which is why it is being contested this hard.
The Opposition Agreed on One Candidate in Ol Kalou. That Was the Real Test.
Kenya's opposition cannot agree on a presidential candidate, but it has agreed on one for a single parliamentary by-election. That is a smaller test of the same thing.