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    "country_name": "Kenya",
    "date": "2027-08-10",
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    "last_verified_at": "2026-09-26T12:00:00Z",
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      "from": "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",
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        "key": "kenya-general-2027/president",
        "name": "President",
        "body": "head-of-state",
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        "polls_close_utc": "2027-08-10T14:00:00Z",
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          "name": "Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission",
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          "from": "2027-08-11T21:00:00Z",
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          "confidence": "announced",
          "basis": "Constitution art. 138(10): 'Within seven days after the presidential election, the chairperson of the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission shall (a) declare the result of the election'; 10 Aug + 7 days = Tue 17 Aug 2027, so the window closes at the end of 17 Aug EAT (UTC+3). The chairperson tallies and verifies at the national tallying centre and may declare before every constituency has reported if the rest cannot change the outcome (Elections Act s.39(2); Regulations reg. 87(3)). Precedent 2022: polling Tue 9 Aug, declaration Mon 15 Aug 2022, 'six days after the General Elections were held' (Supreme Court judgment, P.E.P. E005 of 2022, para 1; IEBC Gazette Notice No. 9773, dated 15 Aug and gazetted 16 Aug 2022). The opening, the start of 12 Aug EAT, is an ESTIMATED floor. If no candidate meets art. 138(4) (more than half of all votes and at least 25% in more than half of the 47 counties), the declaration instead says no one was elected and a fresh election follows (see kenya-presidential-2027-r2). Settle on the chairperson's declaration, not on media tallies of the portal forms."
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            "stage": "election-night",
            "from": "2027-08-10T14:00:00Z",
            "by": "2027-08-13T20:59:59Z",
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            "confidence": "estimate",
            "citation": "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. From the close, presiding officers count at each polling station and transmit the presidential result electronically (Regulations reg. 82: these results 'shall be provisional'); IEBC publishes the polling-station forms on its online public portal (Elections Act s.39(1C)(c)), and livestreamed station results are 'for purposes of public information only' (s.39(1G)). No running national total from IEBC is guaranteed before the declaration. The window's end, the end of 13 Aug EAT (day 3), is an ESTIMATE of when most forms are up; uploads can continue. Scanned forms, not the declared result.",
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          {
            "stage": "final-result",
            "from": "2027-08-11T21:00:00Z",
            "by": "2027-08-17T20:59:59Z",
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            "confidence": "announced",
            "citation": "Constitution art. 138(10): 'Within seven days after the presidential election, the chairperson of the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission shall (a) declare the result of the election'; 10 Aug + 7 days = Tue 17 Aug 2027, so the window closes at the end of 17 Aug EAT (UTC+3). The chairperson tallies and verifies at the national tallying centre and may declare before every constituency has reported if the rest cannot change the outcome (Elections Act s.39(2); Regulations reg. 87(3)). Precedent 2022: polling Tue 9 Aug, declaration Mon 15 Aug 2022, 'six days after the General Elections were held' (Supreme Court judgment, P.E.P. E005 of 2022, para 1; IEBC Gazette Notice No. 9773, dated 15 Aug and gazetted 16 Aug 2022). The opening, the start of 12 Aug EAT, is an ESTIMATED floor. If no candidate meets art. 138(4) (more than half of all votes and at least 25% in more than half of the 47 counties), the declaration instead says no one was elected and a fresh election follows (see kenya-presidential-2027-r2). Settle on the chairperson's declaration, not on media tallies of the portal forms.",
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          {
            "stage": "court-validation",
            "from": "2027-08-19T21:00:00Z",
            "by": "2027-09-07T20:59:59Z",
            "replacedAt": null,
            "confidence": "announced",
            "citation": "Constitution art. 140(1): a petition may be filed in the Supreme Court 'within seven days after the date of the declaration of the results'; art. 140(2): 'Within fourteen days after the filing of a petition ... the Supreme Court shall hear and determine the petition and its decision shall be final'. If no petition is filed, the declaration stands once the seven days lapse: the window opens at the end of that period after the earliest likely declaration (12 Aug, so from the start of 20 Aug EAT). It closes at the constitutional outer limit: a declaration on 17 Aug, a petition on 24 Aug, a decision by the end of Tue 7 Sep 2027 EAT. Precedent 2022: declaration 15 Aug, Supreme Court judgment upholding it delivered 5 Sep 2022 (P.E.P. E005 of 2022, consolidated), 21 days after the declaration, the full statutory span. If the Court finds the election invalid, a fresh election is held within 60 days (art. 140(3)); that would be a separate event, not profiled here. Swearing-in: the first Tuesday after the 14th day from the declaration if no petition, otherwise the first Tuesday after the 7th day from a judgment upholding it (art. 141(2)).",
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        "sources": [
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            "role": "results-live",
            "kind": "emb_home",
            "kindReason": "site root: cannot answer a results question",
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            "note": "IEBC's online public portal for presidential polling-station result forms (Forms 34A/34B), required by Elections Act s.39(1C)(c); used in 2022. Not a page for this election: on 26 Sep 2026 it answered 403 Forbidden from here (directly and via a text proxy), so neither its current state nor its 2027 address could be checked. It shows scanned forms, not a tallied national total, and is not the declared result. IEBC's own site has no results section: https://www.iebc.or.ke/election/?results returned an empty page.",
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            "note": "IEBC Gazette Notices index, where the Gazette notice of the declaration of the President-elect is posted. 2022 equivalent: Gazette Notice No. 9773 (Kenya Gazette Special Issue Vol. CXXIV No. 163, 16 Aug 2022), dated 15 Aug 2022, https://www.iebc.or.ke/uploads/resources/nJbSsSKxMj.pdf. The declaration itself is made by the IEBC chairperson at the national tallying centre in Nairobi (Constitution art. 138(10); Regulations reg. 84(2)(a), 87(3)).",
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          {
            "url": "https://www.iebc.or.ke/uploads/resources/3MMJlcBEs1.pdf",
            "role": "timetable",
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            "note": "Kenya Gazette Special Issue Vol. CXXVIII No. 144, 20 Aug 2026: Gazette Notice No. 13497 (Election for President), dated 19 Aug 2026 and signed by the IEBC chairperson: 'An election of the President of the Republic of Kenya shall be held on Tuesday, 10th August, 2027'; presidential nominations 29 May-11 Jun 2027; campaign period 29 May-7 Aug 2027. Same issue: Nos. 13498 (National Assembly), 13499 (Senate), 13500 (County Woman Member), 13501-13502 (county races).",
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          {
            "url": "https://www.constituteproject.org/constitution/Kenya_2010",
            "role": "timetable",
            "kind": "other",
            "kindReason": "election page without a results marker",
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            "origin": "race",
            "note": "Constitution of Kenya 2010: art. 136(2)(a) (President elected on the same day as the parliamentary general election, 'the second Tuesday in August, in every fifth year'); art. 138(4) (more than half of all votes cast and at least 25% in more than half of the 47 counties), 138(5) (otherwise a fresh election within 30 days), 138(10) (declaration within seven days); art. 140 (Supreme Court petition); art. 141 (swearing-in). Text read on constituteproject.org; the official Kenya Law site refused access (403) on 26 Sep 2026.",
            "check": null
          },
          {
            "url": "https://www.iebc.or.ke/uploads/resources/902SFZiDqt.pdf",
            "role": "timetable",
            "kind": "other",
            "kindReason": "no election or results marker",
            "resolvable": false,
            "origin": "race",
            "note": "Elections Act subsidiary legislation (Rev. 2017) on iebc.or.ke, including the Elections (General) Regulations 2012: reg. 66 (polling time), 82 (provisional results transmitted electronically), 83 and 87(3) (tallying and declaration of the presidential result), 88 (notice of a fresh presidential election).",
            "check": null
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          {
            "url": "https://www.iebc.or.ke/uploads/resources/G16qxyy4rA.pdf",
            "role": "timetable",
            "kind": "other",
            "kindReason": "no election or results marker",
            "resolvable": false,
            "origin": "race",
            "note": "Elections Act No. 24 of 2011, Revised Edition 2019 (IEBC-hosted): s.39(1C) (presidential results transmitted electronically and published on an online public portal), s.39(1G) (livestreamed polling-station results are for public information only and not the basis of a declaration), s.39(2) (the chairperson may declare before all constituencies have reported if the rest cannot change the outcome). Later amendments to the Act were not checked.",
            "check": null
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          {
            "url": "https://supremecourt.judiciary.go.ke/wp-content/plugins/download-attachments/includes/download.php?id=4488",
            "role": "court-validation",
            "kind": "other",
            "kindReason": "no election or results marker",
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            "origin": "race",
            "note": "2022 precedent, not this election: Supreme Court judgment in Presidential Election Petition No. E005 of 2022 (consolidated with E001-E004, E007, E008), 'DATED and DELIVERED at NAIROBI this 5th Day of September, 2022', upholding the declaration of 15 Aug 2022. The Supreme Court's page for 2027 petitions does not exist yet.",
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          {
            "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2027_Kenyan_general_election",
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            "kindReason": "election page without a results marker",
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      {
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        "key": "kenya-general-2027/national-assembly",
        "name": "National Assembly",
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          "basis": "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. Each constituency returning officer tallies and publicly declares the National Assembly result for the constituency and issues the certificate (Regulations reg. 83(1)(f)-(g)); county returning officers declare the County Woman Member (reg. 87(2)); the Commission then publishes the names of those elected in the Gazette (reg. 87(3)(h)). Precedent 2022 (polling Tue 9 Aug): IEBC Gazette Notice No. 9950 declaring the elected National Assembly members, dated 22 Aug and gazetted 23 Aug 2022 (day 14), with the County Woman Members in No. 9951 the same day; four constituencies whose polls were postponed (Gazette Notice No. 9948) voted on 29 Aug and were declared in No. 10535, dated 5 Sep and gazetted 6 Sep 2022 (day 28); the 12 party-nominated members followed on 7 Sep 2022 (No. 10537). The window opens at the start of 11 Aug EAT, when the first returning-officer declarations can come (an ESTIMATED floor), and closes at the end of Tue 14 Sep 2027 EAT (day 35), a week past the 2022 date for the postponed seats, so the composition is not read as complete early; a polling-day postponement under Regulations reg. 64A can push individual seats later still. There is no national results page and no separate preliminary count from IEBC: polling-station results announced on the night are not a declaration. Petitions go to the High Court within 28 days of the declaration (Constitution art. 87(2); Elections Act s.76(1)(a)) and are decided within six months (art. 105(2)); no court confirms the result, so there is no court-validation stage."
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        "stages": [
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            "from": "2027-08-10T21:00:00Z",
            "by": "2027-09-14T20:59:59Z",
            "replacedAt": null,
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            "citation": "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. Each constituency returning officer tallies and publicly declares the National Assembly result for the constituency and issues the certificate (Regulations reg. 83(1)(f)-(g)); county returning officers declare the County Woman Member (reg. 87(2)); the Commission then publishes the names of those elected in the Gazette (reg. 87(3)(h)). Precedent 2022 (polling Tue 9 Aug): IEBC Gazette Notice No. 9950 declaring the elected National Assembly members, dated 22 Aug and gazetted 23 Aug 2022 (day 14), with the County Woman Members in No. 9951 the same day; four constituencies whose polls were postponed (Gazette Notice No. 9948) voted on 29 Aug and were declared in No. 10535, dated 5 Sep and gazetted 6 Sep 2022 (day 28); the 12 party-nominated members followed on 7 Sep 2022 (No. 10537). The window opens at the start of 11 Aug EAT, when the first returning-officer declarations can come (an ESTIMATED floor), and closes at the end of Tue 14 Sep 2027 EAT (day 35), a week past the 2022 date for the postponed seats, so the composition is not read as complete early; a polling-day postponement under Regulations reg. 64A can push individual seats later still. There is no national results page and no separate preliminary count from IEBC: polling-station results announced on the night are not a declaration. Petitions go to the High Court within 28 days of the declaration (Constitution art. 87(2); Elections Act s.76(1)(a)) and are decided within six months (art. 105(2)); no court confirms the result, so there is no court-validation stage.",
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        "sources": [
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            "url": "https://www.iebc.or.ke/electionlaws/?Gazette_Notices",
            "role": "results-final",
            "kind": "other",
            "kindReason": "no election or results marker",
            "resolvable": false,
            "origin": "race",
            "note": "IEBC Gazette Notices index, where the Gazette declaration of the persons elected is posted. 2022 equivalents: Gazette Notice No. 9950, 'Declaration of Persons Elected to Parliament as Members of the National Assembly' (dated 22 Aug 2022, Kenya Gazette Special Issue Vol. CXXIV No. 169 of 23 Aug 2022, https://www.iebc.or.ke/uploads/resources/p3sivVm8LM.pdf), with the County Woman Members in No. 9951 in the same issue; the four constituencies whose polls were postponed to 29 Aug 2022 (Gazette Notice No. 9948) were declared in No. 10535 (dated 5 Sep 2022, Vol. CXXIV No. 179 of 6 Sep 2022, https://www.iebc.or.ke/uploads/resources/jx75CDXcFm.pdf); the 12 nominated members followed in No. 10537 (7 Sep 2022). No results page: each seat is declared by its returning officer.",
            "check": null
          },
          {
            "url": "https://www.iebc.or.ke/uploads/resources/3MMJlcBEs1.pdf",
            "role": "timetable",
            "kind": "other",
            "kindReason": "no election or results marker",
            "resolvable": false,
            "origin": "race",
            "note": "Kenya Gazette Special Issue Vol. CXXVIII No. 144, 20 Aug 2026: Gazette Notice No. 13498 (Election for Members of the National Assembly), dated 19 Aug 2026: 'An election is to be held on Tuesday, 10th August, 2027 for Members of the National Assembly for each of the constituencies set out in the First Schedule'; Gazette Notice No. 13500 in the same issue does the same for the County Woman Member to the National Assembly in each county.",
            "check": null
          },
          {
            "url": "https://www.constituteproject.org/constitution/Kenya_2010",
            "role": "timetable",
            "kind": "other",
            "kindReason": "election page without a results marker",
            "resolvable": false,
            "origin": "race",
            "note": "Constitution of Kenya 2010: art. 97(1) (National Assembly: 290 constituency members, 47 county women members, 12 members nominated by parliamentary parties in proportion to their seats, and the Speaker ex officio; seats here = 349, of which 337 are elected on polling day); art. 101(1) ('A general election of members of Parliament shall be held on the second Tuesday in August in every fifth year'); art. 102 (term); art. 87(2) and 105 (petitions to the High Court). Text read on constituteproject.org; the official Kenya Law site refused access (403) on 26 Sep 2026.",
            "check": null
          },
          {
            "url": "https://www.iebc.or.ke/uploads/resources/902SFZiDqt.pdf",
            "role": "timetable",
            "kind": "other",
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            "resolvable": false,
            "origin": "race",
            "note": "Elections (General) Regulations 2012 (Rev. 2017), IEBC-hosted: reg. 66 (polling time), reg. 83(1) (constituency returning officers tally and declare the National Assembly seats and issue certificates), reg. 87(2) (county returning officers declare the Senator and County Woman Member), reg. 87(3)(h) (the Commission publishes the names of those elected in the Gazette).",
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            "kind": "other",
            "kindReason": "no election or results marker",
            "resolvable": false,
            "origin": "race",
            "note": "Elections Act No. 24 of 2011, Revised Edition 2019 (IEBC-hosted): s.39(1A)-(1B) (returning officers declare the results), s.76(1)(a) (a petition 'shall be filed within twenty eight days after the date of declaration of the results'). Later amendments to the Act were not checked.",
            "check": null
          },
          {
            "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2027_Kenyan_general_election",
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      {
        "id": "senate",
        "key": "kenya-general-2027/senate",
        "name": "Senate",
        "body": "legislature-upper",
        "seats": 47,
        "polls_close_utc": "2027-08-10T14:00:00Z",
        "authority": {
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          "confidence": "precedent",
          "basis": "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. Each county returning officer tallies and publicly declares the Senate result for the county and issues the certificate (Regulations reg. 87(2)); the Commission then publishes the names of those elected in the Gazette (reg. 87(3)(h)). Precedent 2022 (polling Tue 9 Aug): IEBC Gazette Notice No. 9955 declaring the 47 elected senators, dated 22 Aug and gazetted 24 Aug 2022 (day 15); no Senate poll was postponed that year (Gazette Notice No. 9948 lists governors, MPs and ward members only). The 20 nominated senators are named separately after the elected seats. The window opens at the start of 11 Aug EAT, when the first returning-officer declarations can come (an ESTIMATED floor), and closes at the end of Tue 14 Sep 2027 EAT (day 35), a week past the 2022 date for the postponed seats, so the composition is not read as complete early; a polling-day postponement under Regulations reg. 64A can push individual seats later still. There is no national results page and no separate preliminary count from IEBC: polling-station results announced on the night are not a declaration. Petitions go to the High Court within 28 days of the declaration (Constitution art. 87(2); Elections Act s.76(1)(a)) and are decided within six months (art. 105(2)); no court confirms the result, so there is no court-validation stage."
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        "stages": [
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            "from": "2027-08-10T21:00:00Z",
            "by": "2027-09-14T20:59:59Z",
            "replacedAt": null,
            "confidence": "precedent",
            "citation": "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. Each county returning officer tallies and publicly declares the Senate result for the county and issues the certificate (Regulations reg. 87(2)); the Commission then publishes the names of those elected in the Gazette (reg. 87(3)(h)). Precedent 2022 (polling Tue 9 Aug): IEBC Gazette Notice No. 9955 declaring the 47 elected senators, dated 22 Aug and gazetted 24 Aug 2022 (day 15); no Senate poll was postponed that year (Gazette Notice No. 9948 lists governors, MPs and ward members only). The 20 nominated senators are named separately after the elected seats. The window opens at the start of 11 Aug EAT, when the first returning-officer declarations can come (an ESTIMATED floor), and closes at the end of Tue 14 Sep 2027 EAT (day 35), a week past the 2022 date for the postponed seats, so the composition is not read as complete early; a polling-day postponement under Regulations reg. 64A can push individual seats later still. There is no national results page and no separate preliminary count from IEBC: polling-station results announced on the night are not a declaration. Petitions go to the High Court within 28 days of the declaration (Constitution art. 87(2); Elections Act s.76(1)(a)) and are decided within six months (art. 105(2)); no court confirms the result, so there is no court-validation stage.",
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