A new opinion poll conducted by Trends and Insights for Africa (TIFA) has revealed that support for the broad-based government has doubled in six months.
In the report released on Thursday, December 18, support for the broad-based government increased from 22 percent in May to 44 percent in November.
According to the poll, 48 percent of Kenyans don’t support the broad-based government, while 8 percent have no opinion.
The report noted that public opinion toward the government is shifting away from outright opposition toward growing support.
“TIFA’s last three surveys reveal that support for the BBG has doubled (from 22% in May to 44% in November), though the “oppose” figure for August (64%) was the highest, most likely as a result of the violent suppression of protests in June and July, the memories of which (among most Kenyans, at least) may be fading, with the “oppose” figure (48%) now at its lowest level across all three surveys,” TIFA stated.
At the same time, the report disclosed that 68 percent of Kenyans feel the country is headed in the wrong direction.
Only 17 percent feel the country is in the right direction while 12 percent feel the country is neither wrong nor right.
The majority of Kenyans who feel the country is the wrong direction are from the Mt Kenya region (83%), Lower Eastern (76%), Coast region (73%), Nairobi (73%) and South Rift (70%).
“With regard to the country’s perceived direction, The salience of political alignment is clear, in that while among those who support the BBG only half (51%) consider it to be “wrong”, this negative view is held among well over three-quarters (84%) of those who say they oppose it.
“Far more of those who have no (or declined to express any) opinion about the BBG are also largely negative about Kenya’s direction, with more than five times as many holding a negative view as those with a positive one about this (60% vs. 11%),” the report stated.
The survey was conducted from November 10 to November 17, 2025, with a sample size of 2,053 respondents.
It was conducted across 9 zones, which include: Central Rift, Coast, Lower Eastern, Mt Kenya, Nairobi, Northern, Nyanza, South Rift and Western.
