Kenyatta Is Elected Kenyan President in Vote Challenged by Rival

Uhuru Kenyatta, who is preparing for trial at the International Criminal Court, won Kenya’s presidential election as the runner-up said he would challenge the “tainted” vote in court.

The son of Kenya’s first post-independence president, Jomo Kenyatta, took 50.07 percent of the ballots cast on March 4, beating the 50 percent plus one vote needed to avoid a runoff, the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission said yesterday. Outgoing Prime Minister Raila Odinga, whose dispute of election results in 2007 triggered two months of ethnic clashes that left more than 1,100 people dead, got 43.3 percent.