Kenyatta early leader after tense Kenya vote March 6, 2013 - 8:25AM A policeman moves ballot boxes at Saint Teresa's Girls High School in Kenya's capital Nairobi March 5, 2013 Photo: Reuters NAIROBI: Kenya's deputy prime minister Uhuru Kenyatta, who faces an international crimes against humanity trial, has taken an initial lead in presidential elections, the first since disputed polls five years ago sparked a wave of violence. Mr Kenyatta edged ahead in partial results over rival Prime Minister Raila Odinga, who says he was robbed of victory in 2007 when disputed results triggered bloody ethnic violence in which more than 1100 people were killed and 600,000 were forced to flee their homes. While millions of Kenyans turned out peacefully on Monday for the elections, how they react to the final results will be key to stability in the regional powerhouse. Voters stood for hours in long snaking lines several people thick outside polling stations to take part in one of the most complex elections Kenya has ever held. Some 40 per cent of the almost 32,000 polling stations had sent partial results 24 hours after official centres closed to the national tallying centre in Nairobi, with so far five million valid votes counted from the 14.3 million registered voters. Of those counted at 1.15am AEST, Kenyatta had won almost 2.7 million or 53 per cent of valid votes cast against Mr Odinga with 2.12 million or 41 per cent, a gap that could still be easily overturned. But a staggering 320,000 ballots were rejected, making up more than five per cent of votes cast and totalling more than the third candidate in the race, deputy prime minister Musalia Mudavadi, who has less than three per cent of votes so far. None of the other five candidates had taken more than one per cent.