Kenya election counts stops for night

NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenyan election officials called a halt to vote tallies on Saturday, leaving the result of a cliff-hanger presidential vote in the balance.

Electoral Commission of Kenya (ECK) officials told journalists to come back on Sunday for further tallies. With 86 percent of constituency results in, President Mwai Kibaki and opposition leader Raila Odinga were neck-and-neck.

With most of Kenya's 36 million people hanging on their every word, the ECK did not say what time other results would come.

(Reporting by Andrew Cawthorne; Editing by George Obulutsa)