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Wednesday, December 15, 2021 – Currently, Deputy President William Ruto’s newly launched United Democratic Alliance is the most popular in the country. Polls have confirmed.
In the latest opinion poll from TIFA, Ruto’s UDA Party has since moved by 9 percent up to 30 percent in the respondent group interviewed.
In a report filed by the Star on Wednesday December 15, UDA’s popularity sustained a steady upward trajectory, rising from 21 per cent in June.
The poll done between November 7 and 13 puts opposition leader Raila Odinga’s ODM Party at second position with a popularity rating of 16 per cent. This however, was an improvement of seven percentage points when compared to the party’s ratings in June when it was only nine per cent.
The pollster also revealed that President Uhuru Kenyatta’s troubled Jubilee Party was on a downward trend from 8 to now 5 percent signaling its dwindling fortunes.
The latest poll had a +/- 2.51 per cent margin of error with a sample size of 1,591 and telephonic interviews were conducted with respondents whose contacts were collected face-to-face across the country.
Many of those in support of Ruto’s UDA Party were Jubilee supporters who have since shifted allegiance to his UDA.
Ruto’s strength is informed by the fact that most of those who believed in Jubilee, moved out with him hoping he will sustain popularity past 2022. Out of the supporters, 17 percent had come from ODM Party.
It was also established that 46 percent of Kenyans do not believe in party politics where 31 percent have been in Jubilee and who seem to have changed heart after what happened in between Ruto and his boss Uhuru Kenyatta.