{"id":245640,"date":"2026-09-26T10:30:29","date_gmt":"2026-09-26T08:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-mizani-poll-ruto-leads-kalonzo-sifuna-in-presidential-preference-survey\/"},"modified":"2026-09-26T10:30:29","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T08:30:29","slug":"kenya-mizani-poll-ruto-leads-kalonzo-sifuna-in-presidential-preference-survey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-mizani-poll-ruto-leads-kalonzo-sifuna-in-presidential-preference-survey\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Mizani Poll &#8211; Ruto Leads Kalonzo, Sifuna in Presidential Preference Survey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">Nairobi \u2014 President William Ruto leads the September 2026 presidential preference poll by Mizani Africa with 38.7 per cent, followed by Wiper leader Kalonzo Musyoka at 27.5 per cent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">Nairobi Senator Edwin Sifuna is third with 13.2 per cent, while former Interior Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiang&#8217;i records 7.7 per cent, according to the survey.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">The remaining candidates each received less than five per cent of the preference in the poll, while 5 per cent of respondents remained undecided.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size:...<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202609250408.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nairobi \u2014 President William Ruto leads the September 2026 presidential preference poll by Mizani Africa with 38.7 per cent, followed by Wiper leader Kalonzo Musyoka at 27.5 per cent. Nairobi Senator Edwin Sifuna is third with 13.2 per cent, while former Interior Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiang&#8217;i records 7.7 per cent, according to the survey. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":245641,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[258,256,17639,4688,430,9429,55524,257,7517,51717,6438,11238,47245,254,8420],"class_list":["post-245640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-kalonzo","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-leads","tag-mizani","tag-news","tag-poll","tag-preference","tag-presidential","tag-ruto","tag-sifuna","tag-south-africa-today","tag-survey"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245640\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}