Kenyatta Wins Kenyan Presidency

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The votes are finally all counted and a winner has been announced in the Kenyan presidential election.

With 50.07% of the vote Deputy Prime Minister Uhuru Kenyatta is now president elect Kenyatta.

Kenyatta narrowly lost the last election, in 2007.

His father was Kenya's first prime minister and president.

Prime Minister Raila Odinga, who came in second with 43.31% of the vote, has promised to challenge the results.

Odinga has asked his supporters to avoid the violence which marred the last election.

Both Odinga and Kenyatta started off as socialists, but Kenyatta has brought his political ideology closer to the center.