Azimio la Umoja-One Kenya coalition party is the most popular coalition in the country, a new TIFA Research survey released on Monday, July 11 has shown.

Azimio’s popularity is at 42 per cent nationally compared to its closest rival Kenya Kwanza’s 35 per cent.

“While the Azimio la Umoja coalition attracts slightly more national support than Kenya Kwanza does (42% vs. 35%), the latter dominates in Central Rift and Mt. Kenya, while Azimio does so everywhere else aside from Northern and Western where the margins between them are quite modest.

“However, the fact that neither achieves two-thirds support in any of the nine zones helps to explain why their respective campaign efforts continue to crisscross/overlap each other, sometimes almost on a daily basis,” the research firm stated.

Azimio, Kenya Kwanza popularity per region

Azimio is leading in Coast (50%), Lower Eastern (49%), Nairobi (56%), Nyanza (66%), South Rift (46%), and Western (45%).

Kenya Kwanza on the other hand is leading in Central Rift (61%), Mount Kenya (47%), and Northern Kenya (45%).

“Further, while nearly all ODM supporters also support the Azimio coalition(98%), a smaller proportion of UDA supporters (87%) identify with Kenya Kwanza, this perhaps being a reflection of the fact that this coalition has far fewer member parties (11 vs. 26 within Azimio), so that the very notion of a coalition is less relevant for some UDA supporters,” TIFA said.

The poll further stated that Raila Odinga would win the election by 42 per cent compared to William Ruto’s 39 per cent if election was held today.

George Wajackoyah of Roots Party of Kenya garnered four per cent in the survey.