Kiamwangi graduate - and his pesa nane conclusion. Here is something more intelligent.
In the figure below, I have presented the turn-out rates for selected constituencies where nomination results have been tallied.
My analysis focuses on UDA and ODM, the two parties which have conducted nominations in various counties.
I have opted for the constituency as the unit of analysis and randomly selected 23 constituencies from 4 regions.
As seen in the figure below, the turn-out has been generally low across the sampled constituencies apart from the Kalenjin Rift where the turn-out in a number of constituencies has hit the 50% mark
In Mt. Kenya Region, the average turn-out rate for the 11 constituencies is estimated as 24% (approximately 216,000 votes from a total of 907,000).
This is significantly lower than the 2017 Jubilee Nomination results which recorded an average turn-out rate of 42%, hence the UDA nominations have recorded an 18 percentage point drop
In the Lake Region, I sampled 5 constituencies and the average turn-out rate was 11% (or approximately 71,500 votes from a total of 502,000)
Again, this is significantly lower than the average turn-out in the region of 51% recorded during the 2017 ODM Nominations, and this is a 40 percentage-points drop!
The Kalenjin Rift has so far recorded the highest turn-out rate in the nomination, with the average for 7 the sampled constituencies estimated as 48% (or about 207,000 votes from 433,000)
Compared with 2017, the region has recorded a 5 percentage-points drop which is significantly low compared with the other regions included in this analysis.
I also checked on one constituency in the Coast Region and I managed to get data for ODM Nominations in Msambweni constituency where the total turn-out was slightly about 3,000 from 79,777 registered voters returning a turn-out rate of only 4% lower than the estimate for 2017
In summary, the turn-out has been low across the regions compared with the 2017 party nominations regardless of the party.
1) I've pointed out many times,The Kiambaa muguga and Juja by-election showed a Jubilee UDA tie of 50:50.The margins were very small.
2) Now the second issue is that,If GEMA are 90% UDA and having a UDA ticket is as sure as winning the General election,Why the low turnout in many constituencies across Central?
It just goes on to show UDA is overatee in GEMA and on August 9,2022.Ruto will shed tears.
Just take a look of how voters turned out in Central Vs Rv,
Not promising.