Did Cherera Get Her 100.01 Maths In Presidential Results Wrong?

Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) Vice Chairperson Juliana Cherera on Tuesday, August 16 took fault with the presidential results they disowned the previous day, which declared William Ruto as the presidential elect.

Speaking to the media a day since they held a similar conference away from the results at Bomas of Kenya, Cherera accused IEBC chairperson, Wafula Chebukati of giving her and three other commissioners what she termed as the wrong aggregation of results.

According to her, Chebukati gave them a total of 100.01 per cent, meaning that 0.01 per cent was translating to around 142,000 votes which would make a huge difference in the presidential results.

IEBC chairman, Wafula Chebukati, during a past media briefing. /TWITTER

However, Viral Tea can now confirm that she got her calculations completely wrong.

Simple access to the results the IEBC shared showed the performance of Raila Odinga of the Azimio la Umoja coalition and William Ruto of Kenya Kwanza, the president-elect across the 47 counties.

Ruto amassed a total of 50.49 per cent and if we were to take his 7,176,141 votes and divide by the total vote count being 14,213,137 valid votes, then multiply by 100, we would get 50.48988509 per cent.

If we went to Raila's 6,942,930 votes and divide them by the total vote count, then multiply them by 100, we would get 48.84868133 per cent.

For Roots Party leader, George Wajackoyah, the method is the same; 61,969 votes divide by the total, multiplying them by 100 equals 0.43599805 per cent

It is the same case for Agano's David Mwaure; 31,987 votes divide by the total, times 100 equals 0.22505236 per cent.

The total percentage comes to 99.99961683 per cent, which if rounded off, comes to 100 per cent. This means that Cherera's claim of 100.01 per cent is mathematically incorrect.

We now focus on Cherera's 0.01 per cent. She claimed that 0.01 per cent amounts to 142,000 votes, but our calculations show that it amounts to 1 per cent.

0.01 per cent translates to 0.01 divided by 100 which is 0.0001. Multiply that by the total number of votes and you get 1,421.3137. That's one thousand, four hundred and twenty-one point three, zero, two seven in words, meaning Cherera's mathematics are wrong as well.

Cherera noted that the four commissioners, including Francis Wanderi, Justus Nyangaya, and Irene Masit, rejected the presidential results because the accuracy of the source of the figures was not adding up.