Xinhua News Agency, Nairobi, August 15 (Reporter Li Hualing Bai Lin) The results of the vote count announced by the Kenya Independent Election and Boundary Commission on the 15th showed that the United Democratic Alliance Party candidate and current Vice President William Ruto held the presidential election on the 9th. win in.
Wafula Chebkati, chairman of the Kenya Independent Election and Boundary Commission, announced at the National Counting Center on the same day that Ruto won more than 7.17 million votes in the presidential election, with an effective vote rate of 50.49%.
Another presidential candidate, former Prime Minister Raila Odinga, received more than 6.94 million votes.
Ruto, 55, has been Kenya's agriculture minister since 2008, higher education minister in 2010, and vice president since 2013.
Kenya will hold presidential elections on the 9th of this month.
Among the four presidential candidates vying for the presidency this year, Ruto and Odinga are the most popular candidates.
Kenya's constitution stipulates that in the first round of elections, if no presidential candidate obtains an absolute majority of more than 50% of the votes and more than 25% of the votes in 24 of the country's 47 constituencies, the election will proceed to the second round.