{"id":634,"date":"2022-07-21T11:20:14","date_gmt":"2022-07-21T11:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/?p=634"},"modified":"2022-07-21T11:20:14","modified_gmt":"2022-07-21T11:20:14","slug":"dp-ruto-leads-in-latest-presidential-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/2022\/07\/21\/dp-ruto-leads-in-latest-presidential-poll\/","title":{"rendered":"DP Ruto leads in latest presidential poll"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/IMG_20220721_102330_222-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-636\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/IMG_20220721_102330_222-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/IMG_20220721_102330_222-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/IMG_20220721_102330_222-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/IMG_20220721_102330_222-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/IMG_20220721_102330_222-1200x1600.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/IMG_20220721_102330_222-1980x2640.jpg 1980w, https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/IMG_20220721_102330_222-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Karen Mwangi CEO IRS<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>DP William Ruto is the most preferred presidential candidate in Kenya, according to an opinion poll released on Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The poll that was conducted by Intel Research Solutions (IRS), shows that DP Ruto garned 50.5 % of the votes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His closest challenger was veteran opposition leader Raila Odinga who garned 44.2 %.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mwangi said that Dr.Ruto is likely to manage a first time round win against his competitor going by the data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Ruto is leading in central and rift valley regions,&#8221; Mwangi said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Odinga, however has a commanding lead in Nyanza and a slight edge in Coast, Nairobi, western and north east region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/IMG_20220721_100137_197-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-637\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/IMG_20220721_100137_197-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/IMG_20220721_100137_197-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/IMG_20220721_100137_197-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/IMG_20220721_100137_197-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/IMG_20220721_100137_197-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/IMG_20220721_100137_197-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/IMG_20220721_100137_197-1980x1485.jpg 1980w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The study was conducted using 24,599 respondents across Kenya&#8217;s 47 counties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Changes observed in this poll are slight increases for D.r<br>William Ruto and Hon.Raila Odinga and a slight drop in the<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Preferred 2022 Presidential Candidate &#8211; Overall<br>Base = 24,599 Respondents<br>Margin of Error: 0.5%<br>Q. If elections were held today, who would you most likely vote for, as The President\/Deputy President?<br>\u2751 Dr. William Ruto lead in overall results with 50.5% preference (N=24,599)<br>6<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Public Opinion Poll Report:<br>Presidential Popularity<br>Ratings<br>J<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Karen Mwangi CEO IRS DP William Ruto is the most preferred presidential candidate in Kenya,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=634"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":638,"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634\/revisions\/638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}