The
Democratic Party is a
conservative political party in
Kenya. At the legislative
elections, 27 December 2002, the party was a partner in the
National Rainbow Coalition, that won 56.1% of the popular vote and 125 out of 210 elected seats. The party itself took 36 of these seats. At the presidential elections of the same day, the party supported
Mwai Kibaki, who won 62.2
nd was elected. Kibaki is the leader of the DP. At the
Kenyan general election, 2007, Democratic Party is part of the
Party of National Unity led by President Mwai Kibaki in the chaotic 2007 general election and one of its members,
Wilfred Machage, was named a cabinet minister in the half cabinet which Kibaki named prior to the formation of the Grand Coalition government.