Likely losers: Mini-polls serve as litmus test for top power brokers

Speaker of the National Assembly Moses Wetangula and Prime Cabinet Minister Musalia Mudavadi. [Benjamin Sakwa, Standard]

The ongoing, hotly contested by-election campaigns across Kenya are increasingly testing the political lifeline and survival of prominent figures within both the broad-based government and the United Opposition.

The mini-polls, to be conducted across the country on November 27, have shifted focus from individual candidates to established leaders striving to assert their authority and remain relevant ahead of the 2027 General Election.