{"id":147195,"date":"2026-07-18T16:02:49","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T16:02:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/nlp-hails-ol-kalou-gains-despite-fourth-place-finish\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T16:02:49","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T16:02:49","slug":"nlp-hails-ol-kalou-gains-despite-fourth-place-finish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/nlp-hails-ol-kalou-gains-despite-fourth-place-finish\/","title":{"rendered":"NLP hails Ol Kalou gains despite fourth place finish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The National Liberal Party (NLP) has described its performance in the Ol Kalou parliamentary by-election as an encouraging step in its grassroots expansion, despite its candidate finishing fourth in a contest overwhelmingly dominated by the Democracy for the Citizens Party (DCP) and the United Democratic Alliance (UDA).<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>NLP candidate Stephen Wanyoike Waithaka garnered 103 votes, placing the party ahead of the Party of National Unity (PNU), which secured 28 votes, but behind Jubilee, which received 198 votes.<\/p>\n<p>While the tally was modest, the party maintains it reflects growing support for a political outfit that is still rebuilding its national structures.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking after the declaration of results, NLP Party Leader Dr. Augustus Kyalo Muli said the by-election was less a contest of policies than a high-stakes political showdown between the country\u2019s two dominant camps.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis was a proxy war. Voters were choosing sides, not policy. But 103 Kenyans still chose liberal ideas. That is our foundation,\u201d Dr. Muli said.<\/p>\n<p>He argued that the party\u2019s performance should be viewed in the context of its age and organizational growth, noting that NLP has been under his leadership for only two years.<\/p>\n\n<p>\u201cTo be ranked alongside Jubilee and PNU is not easy. NLP is two years under my leadership. We showed up. We tried. Against all odds,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Muli further noted that while Jubilee spent a decade in government and PNU remains one of Kenya\u2019s oldest political parties, NLP has only recently embarked on rebuilding its structures.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJubilee had 10 years in government. PNU has a national legacy. We have two years of rebuilding. From zero to 103. That is progress,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>The by-election was comfortably won by Sammy Douglas Waweru Kamau of DCP, who secured 35,440 votes, handing the party its first seat in the National Assembly.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kbc.co.ke\/nlp-hails-ol-kalou-gains-despite-fourth-place-finish\/\">NLP hails Ol Kalou gains despite fourth place finish<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kbc.co.ke\/\">KBC Digital<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Liberal Party (NLP) has described its performance in the Ol Kalou parliamentary by-election as an encouraging step in its grassroots expansion, despite its candidate finishing fourth in a contest overwhelmingly dominated by the Democracy for the Citizens Party (DCP) and the United Democratic Alliance (UDA). NLP candidate Stephen Wanyoike Waithaka garnered 103 votes, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}