Kenya’s Election Rounding Error
More or Less: behind the statistics
Saturday, 27 August 2022 - 9 minutes
When the official figures were announced in Kenya’s presidential election, it looked like the total percentage share of the vote for each candidate came to more than 100%. As this should not be possible, many wondered if up to 142,000 votes might be miscounted. We explore what turns out to be a simple mathematical misunderstanding of the numbers.