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Wafula Chebukati races against time to beat 7-day vote count deadline

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IEBC Chairman Wafula Chebukati signs results verification forms at the National Tallying Centre, Bomas of Kenya. [Elvis Ogina, Standard]

The electoral commission made huge progress in vote tallying yesterday, verifying and announcing results from 47 constituencies on the fourth of a seven-day window to release results of the presidential election.

United Democratic Alliance (UDA) candidate Deputy President William Ruto had a tally of 1,483,408 (47.76 per cent), while Azimio presidential candidate Raila Odinga had 1,660,405 (53.46 per cent) from 65 constituencies which had been verified and tallied by the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission at the Bomas of Kenya.

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