2002 Kenyan general election

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Turnout	57.18%
Nominee Mwai Kibaki Uhuru Kenyatta Simeon Nyachae Party NARC KANU FORD–People Popular vote 3,646,277 1,835,890 345,152 Percentage 62.20% 31.32% 5.89%
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President before election Daniel arap Moi KANU Elected President Mwai Kibaki NARC

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General elections were held inKenya on 27 December 2002.^[1] Voters elected thepresident, members of theNational Assembly andlocal officials.

Mwai Kibaki of theNational Rainbow Coalition (NARC) was elected, defeatingUhuru Kenyatta of theKenya African National Union (KANU) andSimeon Nyachae ofFORD–People.

Incumbent presidentDaniel arap Moi was ineligible to pursue a third term due to the two-term limit in theConstitution of Kenya. This was the first truly free general election held in Kenya since independence in 1964; a number of by-elections were held in1966 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, which had governed the country since independence in 1963, including 23 years as the only legal party. The National Rainbow Coalition won a majority in the National Assembly.

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, choosingUhuru Kenyatta, the son of Kenya'sfirst President, as his successor.^[2] In protest of Moi's decision a group of disappointed KANU presidential aspirants quit KANU and formed theLiberal Democratic Party (LDP).

In preparation for the 2002 elections, Kibaki's Democratic Party affiliated with several other opposition parties, including the LDP andNational Alliance Party of Kenya (NAK) to form theNational Rainbow Coalition (NARC). On 14 October 2002, at a large opposition rally inUhuru Park inNairobi, Kibaki was nominated as the NARC candidate afterRaila Odinga declaredKibaki Tosha! (Kibaki is the one!).^[3]

Party or alliance				Votes	%	Seats	+/–
	National Rainbow Coalition		Liberal Democratic Party			59	New
			Democratic Party			39	0
			FORD–Kenya			21	+4
			National Party of Kenya			6	New
		Total				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
Total						222	0
Registered voters/turnout				10,451,150	–
Source: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.^[4]

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