Section 51, The Public Elections Act, 2022

(1) A Presiding Officer shall, after the expiration of thetime fixed for polling, count the votes, polling station by polling station, certify the result of the counting, stating the number of valid votes cast in favour of each presidential candidate to the District Returning Officer, who shall in turn certify the result to the Regional Returning Officer and the Regional Returning Officer shall in turn certified the result to the National Returning Officer: (2) As soon as possible after receipt of the result of the counting of votes under subsection (1), the Returning Officer shall tally and compute the results certified to him by the various Presiding Officers and shall after that declare the result of the election. Time and procedure for polling. Declaration result. (5) A candidate, or one of the persons nominating him, shall deliver his nomination paper, subscribed in accordance with subsection (3), at the office of the Returning Officer before 4 O'clock in the afternoon of the last day for the delivery of nomination papers. (6) A candidate shall not be entitled to take part in general election unless he has paid to the Returning Officer a non-refundable nomination fee based on the nomination fee prescribed by the Commission and based on the Nomination Fee Formulae as specified in the Eleventh Schedule. (7) On the delivery of the nomination paper of a candidate together with the prescribed nomination fee, the Returning Officer for the electoral area shall forthwith acknowledge receipt of the nomination paper and nomination fee: Provided that the returning officer shall reject the Nomination of Candidate made in contravention of subsection (2). (8) The Returning Officer shall, where the requirements concerning the completion and delivery of nomination papers have been duly complied with, forthwith display, in a conspicuous place, a notice containing- (a) the name of the candidate; (b) the names of the voters nominating him; (c) the political party of the candidate, as applicable; and (d) the symbol of the candidate. 59. (1) A political party shall deliver to the Electoral Commission or to a designated Returning Officer, a list of the party's endorsed candidates for the election of Members of Parliament, other than Paramount Chief Members of Parliament. (2) A candidate shall not be endorsed by more than one political party and the name of a candidate shall not appear in more than one list delivered to the Electoral Commission. Political party