{"id":10217,"date":"2024-07-16T11:53:46","date_gmt":"2024-07-16T11:53:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eastafricangazette.com\/?p=10217"},"modified":"2024-07-16T11:53:47","modified_gmt":"2024-07-16T11:53:47","slug":"president-kagame-takes-lead-with-7million-votes-in-partial-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastafricangazette.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/16\/president-kagame-takes-lead-with-7million-votes-in-partial-results\/","title":{"rendered":"President Kagame takes lead with 7million votes in partial results"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

By eastafrican gazette<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The on going vote tallying in the Rwanda’s presidential election, indicates that the incumbet President of Rwanda Paul Kagame is in an early lead.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

With more than 7 million votes counted so far, Kagame has garnered an impressive 99.15%, followed by Frank Habineza of Democratic Green Party (DGP), with 0.53%, while the independent candidate Philippe Mpayimana trails with 0.32 per cent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kagame is at the forefront of the RPF-Inkotanyi coalition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Out of the tallied votes, Kagame garnered 7,099,810, votes Habineza (38,301) votes, while Mpayimana got (22,753) votes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although the official results will not be announced until July 27, the current statistics indicate that Kagame’s win is highly likely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If these numbers hold true, Kagame will be granted another consecutive term of office, solidifying his role as the prominent political figure in Rwanda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On July 15, 2024, the National Electoral Commission (NEC) announced a remarkable 98 percent voter turnout, highlighting the importance of the election to the people of Rwanda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oda Gasinzigwa, the Chairperson of the commission, stated that the electoral procedure took place in a secure and open environment for Rwandans residing overseas as well as those within the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cAs of now, the votes that have been tallied in the elections of the president of the Republic are 78.94 per cent and these are the partial results,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Provisional results breakdown<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Northern Pronvice<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to the New Times Rwanda<\/strong><\/em> a Government online publication, as of Monday, 1,151,970 votes were tallied in the Northern Province, out of the 1,480,558 registered voters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kagame got 99,65 per cent of the votes in Northern Province. Habineza got 0.27 per cent, while Mpayimana got 0.08 per cent of the votes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Eastern Province<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Eastern Province, 1,766,799 votes were tallied, out of 2,246,371 registered voters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kagame garnered 99.3 per cent of the votes in the province. Habineza came second with 0.66 per cent and Mpayimana got 0.05 per cent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Western Province<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Western Province, 1,607,932 votes were tallied on Monday out of 2,038,931 registered voters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kagame got 99.6 per cent of the votes. Mpayimana got 0.29 per cent while Habineza got 0.11 per cent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Southern Province<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Southern Province, 1,615,265 votes were tallied on Monday, out of 2,055,930 registered voters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kagame garnered 98.6 per cent of the votes. Habineza got 0.73 per cent, while Mpayimana got 0.67 per cent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

City of Kigali<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the City of Kigali, Kagame got 98.59 per cent of the 978,223 votes tallied on Monday, out of 1,172,229 registered voters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Habineza got 0.96 per cent while Mpayimana got 0.44 per cent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Diaspora<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the votes cast by Rwandans in the diaspora, Kagame got 95.4 per cent of 40,675 votes tallied on Monday. More than 70,000 Rwandans in diaspora registered to vote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mpayimana and Habineza got 2.45 per cent and 2.15 per cent of the diaspora votes, respectively.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By eastafrican gazette The on going vote tallying in the Rwanda’s presidential election, indicates that the incumbet President of Rwanda Paul Kagame is in an early lead. With more than 7 million votes counted so far, Kagame has garnered an impressive 99.15%, followed by Frank Habineza of Democratic Green Party (DGP), with 0.53%, while the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":10218,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1504,5,46,9],"tags":[274,272],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastafricangazette.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10217"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastafricangazette.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastafricangazette.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastafricangazette.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastafricangazette.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10217"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastafricangazette.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10220,"href":"https:\/\/eastafricangazette.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10217\/revisions\/10220"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastafricangazette.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastafricangazette.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastafricangazette.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastafricangazette.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}