1978 Kenyan presidential election

Presidential elections were held in Kenya on 8 November 1978, the first not to be held concurrently with parliamentary elections. They followed the death in office of President Jomo Kenyatta in August 1978. The then-Vice President, Daniel arap Moi, who was sworn in as Acting President for a 90-day interim period beginning at the moment of Kenyatta's death,[1] was the sole candidate and was automatically elected without a vote being held.

1978 Kenyan presidential election
Kenya
8 November 1978
Not held
Daniel Arap Moi ran unopposed
1974
1979

References

  1. Kuria 1991, p. 121; Assensoh 1998, p. 67; Cullen 2016, p. 521.

Bibliography

  • Assensoh, A. B. (1998). African Political Leadership: Jomo Kenyatta, Kwame Nkrumah, and Julius K. Nyerere. Malabar, Florida: Krieger Publishing Company. ISBN 978-0894649110.
  • Cullen, Poppy (2016). "Funeral Planning: British Involvement in the Funeral of President Jomo Kenyatta" (PDF). The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History. 44 (3): 513–532. doi:10.1080/03086534.2016.1175737. S2CID 156552406.
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