When will the final result of the President (fresh election) race be official?

Expected between 2027-09-10T21:00:00Z and 2027-09-16T20:59:59Z (UTC), confidence announced. Constitution art. 138(7): the candidate with the most votes in the fresh election is declared elected; art. 138(10): the IEBC chairperson declares the result 'Within seven days after the presidential election', i.e. by the end of 16 Sep 2027 EAT if the fresh election is held on 9 Sep. Both ends move with the actual polling day, which IEBC fixes in its Form 40 notice. The opening (start of day 2, EAT) is an ESTIMATED floor; first-round 2022 precedent was day 6 (declaration 15 Aug 2022, IEBC Gazette Notice No. 9773).

Where are the official President (fresh election) results?

No single-election results page is recorded yet. The counting authority is Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (https://www.iebc.or.ke/).

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Kenya runoff 2027

Name: Kenya runoff 2027
Start: 2027-09-09
Location: Kenya

Polling day Thu, 9 Sept 2027 Date not yet official. Counted by Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission. Times are Nairobi time; hover for UTC.

Held only if no presidential candidate on 10 Aug 2027 receives more than half of all votes cast and at least 25% of the votes cast in each of more than half of the 47 counties (Constitution art. 138(4)). Then 'a fresh election shall be held within thirty days after the previous election' between the candidate(s) with the most votes and the candidate(s) with the second-most (art. 138(5)-(6)); IEBC gazettes that no one was elected and, within two days, the notice of the fresh election (Elections (General) Regulations reg. 88). The date 9 Sep 2027 is the LATEST the Constitution allows (10 Aug + 30 days), not an IEBC date: IEBC's 2027 timetable (Gazette Notice No. 13497) sets no fresh-election date, and none has been held under the 2010 Constitution. The National Assembly and Senate have no second round.

11–16 Sept 2027

Final result window, set by the law or the authority. Treat as final after Thu 16 Sept, 23:59 Nairobi time.

Polls close: Thu 9 Sept, 17:00
First count by: Sun 12 Sept, 23:59
Counted by: Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission
Results page: No single-election results page yet.
Authority site: iebc.or.ke

Count stages

9 Sept23 Sept7 Oct

Election-night count

9–12 SeptElection-night count: Thu 9 Sept, 17:00 → Sun 12 Sept, 23:59, estimate.

Final result

11–16 SeptFinal result: Sat 11 Sept, 00:00 → Thu 16 Sept, 23:59, announced.

Court validation

19 Sept – 7 OctCourt validation: Sun 19 Sept, 00:00 → Thu 7 Oct, 23:59, announced.

announced set by law or the authorityprecedent from the last electionestimate our estimateNairobi time. Polls close in 348 days.

Stage windows and their sources 3 stages, each cited

Election-night count
Thu 9 Sept, 17:00 → Sun 12 Sept, 23:59
estimate

Polling hours: Elections (General) Regulations 2012 reg. 66(1): 'voting shall commence at 6 o'clock in the morning and end at 5 o'clock in the afternoon on the polling day'; reg. 66(2): anyone in the queue before 5 p.m. may still vote; reg. 64(3): a presiding officer may extend hours at a station that opened late or was interrupted. 17:00 EAT (UTC+3, no daylight saving) = 14:00 UTC; individual stations can close later. (Regulations reg. 89 applies them to a fresh election.) From the close, polling-station results are transmitted electronically as provisional results (reg. 82) and the forms are published on IEBC's online public portal (Elections Act s.39(1C)(c)). The window's end, the end of day 3 EAT, is an ESTIMATE; the polling day itself is tentative. Scanned forms, not the declared result.
Final result
Sat 11 Sept, 00:00 → Thu 16 Sept, 23:59
announced

Constitution art. 138(7): the candidate with the most votes in the fresh election is declared elected; art. 138(10): the IEBC chairperson declares the result 'Within seven days after the presidential election', i.e. by the end of 16 Sep 2027 EAT if the fresh election is held on 9 Sep. Both ends move with the actual polling day, which IEBC fixes in its Form 40 notice. The opening (start of day 2, EAT) is an ESTIMATED floor; first-round 2022 precedent was day 6 (declaration 15 Aug 2022, IEBC Gazette Notice No. 9773).
Court validation
Sun 19 Sept, 00:00 → Thu 7 Oct, 23:59
announced

Constitution art. 140(1)-(2): a petition to the Supreme Court within seven days of the declaration, determined within fourteen days of filing, the decision final. Window: from the lapse of seven days after the earliest likely declaration (11 Sep, so from the start of 19 Sep EAT) to the outer limit for a declaration on 16 Sep (petition by 23 Sep, decision by the end of 7 Oct 2027 EAT). The 2022 petition used the full span (declaration 15 Aug, judgment 5 Sep 2022, P.E.P. E005 of 2022). A finding of invalidity triggers a fresh election within 60 days (art. 140(3)), not profiled.

Results sources 7 pages, 0 can answer a results question

URL	Role	Kind	Can answer a results question	Last check
forms.iebc.or.ke	results-live	emb home	no (site root: cannot answer a results question)	not checked yet
iebc.or.ke/electionlaws/	results-final	other	no (no election or results marker)	not checked yet
constituteproject.org/constitution/Kenya_2010	timetable	other	no (election page without a results marker)	not checked yet
iebc.or.ke/uploads/resources/902SFZiDqt.pdf	timetable	other	no (no election or results marker)	not checked yet
iebc.or.ke/uploads/resources/3MMJlcBEs1.pdf	timetable	other	no (no election or results marker)	not checked yet
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2027_Kenyan_general_election	see-also	other	no (election page without a results marker)	not checked yet
iebc.or.ke	authority-home	emb home	no (site root: cannot answer a results question)	not checked yet

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Provenance: researcher agent 2026-09-25: IEBC Gazette Notices Nos. 13497-13499 (Kenya Gazette Special Issue Vol. CXXVIII No. 144, 20 Aug 2026) on iebc.or.ke; Constitution of Kenya 2010 arts. 87, 97, 98, 101, 102, 105, 136, 138, 140, 141 (text via constituteproject.org; kenyalaw.org refused access); Elections Act No. 24 of 2011 (Rev. 2019) ss. 39, 76 and Elections (General) Regulations 2012 (Rev. 2017) regs. 66, 83, 87, 88, 89 (IEBC-hosted PDFs); 2022 precedent from IEBC Gazette Notices 9773, 9948, 9950, 9955, 10535 and the Supreme Court judgment in Presidential Election Petition E005 of 2022 (CC BY 4.0 (Election Index)). Last verified 2026-09-26.

Questions and answers

When is the Kenya runoff 2027?: Polling day is 2027-09-09, not yet officially confirmed. Held only if no presidential candidate on 10 Aug 2027 receives more than half of all votes cast and at least 25% of the votes cast in each of more than half of the 47 counties (Constitution art. 138(4)). Then 'a fresh election shall be held within thirty days after the previous election' between the candidate(s) with the most votes and the candidate(s) with the second-most (art. 138(5)-(6)); IEBC gazettes that no one was elected and, within two days, the notice of the fresh election (Elections (General) Regulations reg. 88). The date 9 Sep 2027 is the LATEST the Constitution allows (10 Aug + 30 days), not an IEBC date: IEBC's 2027 timetable (Gazette Notice No. 13497) sets no fresh-election date, and none has been held under the 2010 Constitution. The National Assembly and Senate have no second round.
When will the final result of the President (fresh election) race be official?: Expected between 2027-09-10T21:00:00Z and 2027-09-16T20:59:59Z (UTC), confidence announced. Constitution art. 138(7): the candidate with the most votes in the fresh election is declared elected; art. 138(10): the IEBC chairperson declares the result 'Within seven days after the presidential election', i.e. by the end of 16 Sep 2027 EAT if the fresh election is held on 9 Sep. Both ends move with the actual polling day, which IEBC fixes in its Form 40 notice. The opening (start of day 2, EAT) is an ESTIMATED floor; first-round 2022 precedent was day 6 (declaration 15 Aug 2022, IEBC Gazette Notice No. 9773).
Where are the official President (fresh election) results?: No single-election results page is recorded yet. The counting authority is Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (https://www.iebc.or.ke/).