{"id":737,"date":"2022-08-01T13:28:04","date_gmt":"2022-08-01T13:28:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/?p=737"},"modified":"2022-08-01T13:28:04","modified_gmt":"2022-08-01T13:28:04","slug":"dp-ruto-leads-poll-ahead-of-august-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/2022\/08\/01\/dp-ruto-leads-poll-ahead-of-august-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"DP Ruto leads poll  ahead of August elections"},"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\/08\/IMG_20220801_120706_980-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-738\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/IMG_20220801_120706_980-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/IMG_20220801_120706_980-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/IMG_20220801_120706_980-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/IMG_20220801_120706_980-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/IMG_20220801_120706_980-1200x1600.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/IMG_20220801_120706_980-1980x2640.jpg 1980w, https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/IMG_20220801_120706_980-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A new opinion poll has put Deputy President William Ruto as the most preferred presidential candidate for the August elections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Intel Research Solutions (IRS) CEO Karen Mwangi, the pair of William Ruto and Gachagua Rigathi would garner 53.1 percent of the votes if elections were held today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Raila Odinga and Martha Karua would garner 42.7 percent of the votes cast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>George Wajackoyah and Justina Wamae polled 1.2 percent while David Waihiga polled 0.2 percent if the elections were held today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The scientific research was conducted between 23-28 July 2022 with a sample size of 29,857 respondents across 47 counties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The research polled the IRS database for respondents via SMS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>DP Ruto has consistently led the previous three polls conducted by the research firm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Karen Mwangi said that Raila Odinga leads in Nairobi, Coast, Southeast and Luo Nyanza while DP Ruto leads in Mt. Kenya, Northern Kenya, rift valley and western zones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new opinion poll has put Deputy President William Ruto as the most preferred presidential&#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-737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737","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=737"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":739,"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737\/revisions\/739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenyatopstories.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}