NDUVI AND MUNIU: By-elections expose IEBC strengths, trials for 2027

Many gains, efficiency, order and rapid results publication alongside security problems in key areas involving intimidation, clashes and bribery.

by STEPHEN NDUVI AND DENIS MUNIU

Siasa07 December 2025 - 04:58

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*National Assembly Speaker Moses Wetang’ula casts his vote at Namakhele Primary school during ChweleKabuchai ward by-election /HANDOUT*

Kenya’s November 27 by-elections offered an early diagnostic of the newly reconstituted Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission’s preparedness for the 2027 general election. They were conducted in Banissa, Kasipul, Magarini, Malava and Mbeere North constituencies, as well as county assembly wards.

Far from being a routine administrative exercise, the polls functioned as a stress test for the commission’s operational systems, integrity safeguards and its capacity to stabilise electoral environments historically prone to contestation.

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