Kenya's Jubilee Alliance's Uhuru Kenyatta secured 50.03 percent of votes in general elections on early Saturday, provisional results showed.

As of 2:40 a.m. Saturday, Kenyatta garnered 6,173,433 votes, or 50.03 percent, while his rival Raila Odinga got 5,340,546 votes. The results are based on votes from 291 constituencies.

The country's electoral body, the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission said on Friday night that it will make final announcement on presidential elections at 11 a.m. on Saturday.

For an outright victory in the first round, a candidate must garner at least 50 percent plus one of all votes cast, in addition to getting at least 25 percent of the votes in 24 counties out of 47.

If there is no outright winner in the first round, the top two candidates will proceed into a run-off, where the candidate who obtains more votes becomes president. Endi

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