Kamukunji Constituency

Kamukunji
constituency for the Parliament of Kenya
County	Nairobi City
Area	8.8 km^2 (3.4 sq mi)
Current constituency
Created	1963
Number of members	One
Party	Jubilee Party
Member(s)	Yusuf Hassan Abdi

Kamukunji Constituency is an electoral constituency in Kenya, one of the seventeen constituencies of Nairobi County, encompasing central to eastern areas of Nairobi. Kamukunji constituency had common boundaries with Pumwani Division. The entire constituency is located within Nairobi City County area. The constituency has an area of 8.80 km^2 (3.4 sq mi). The constituency was originally what was known as Nairobi Central Constituency at the 1963 elections. The current constituency boundaries were revised prior to the 2013 elections. It borders Starehe Constituency to the west, Makadara to the south, Embakasi West Constituency to the east, and Mathare Constituency to the north.

Prominent politician Tom Mboya was the first Member of Parliament (MP) from this constituency. He was assassinated in 1969.

Members of Parliament

Elections	MP[1]	Party	Notes
1963	Tom Mboya	KANU
1969	Maina Wanjigi	KANU	One-party system
1974	Maina Wanjigi	KANU	One-party system
1979	Philip Nicholas Gor	KANU	One-party system
1983	Maina Wanjigi	KANU	One-party system
1988	Maina Wanjigi	KANU	One-party system
1992	George Nthenge	FORD-Asili
1997	Norman Nyagah	Democratic Party
2002	Norman Nyagah	NARC
2007	Simon Mbugua	PNU	Results were not declared until August 2008 due to a court case.[2] However, he eventually lost the seat as the election was annulled by a court in January 2011[3]
2011	Yusuf Hassan Abdi	PNU	By-election 18 August 2011: Yusuf Hassan (PNU – 19,030), Jonny Ibrahim (ODM – 15,476), Brian Weke (Narc-Kenya – 4,064)[4][5]
2013	Yusuf Hassan Abdi	TNA	Election 4 March 2013
2017	Yusuf Hassan Abdi	Jubilee Party	Elections were held on 8 August 2017
2022	Yusuf Hassan Abdi	Jubilee Party	2022 Kenyan general election[6]

Wards

After the promulgation of the 2010 constitution and the implementation of devolution, the 2013 elections led to a revision of Kamukunji Constituency's boundaries. This revision reduced the number of wards to five and created new ones, namely; California, Eastleigh North, Eastleigh South, Airbase and Pumwani wards.

Prior to 2013

Location	Population
Bahati	55,082
Eastleigh North	128,277
Eastleigh South	94,138
Kamukunji	35,851
Pumwani	59,616
Total	401,783
1999 census.[7]

Prior to 2013

Ward	Registered voters
Eastleigh North	21,450
Eastleigh South	14,721
Kimathi	7,010
Muthurwa/Shauri Moyo	17,513
Pumwani	18,032
Uhuru	11,860
Total	90,586
*September 2005.[8]

Kamukunji Sub-county

The Sub-county shares nearly the same boundaries with what was the Pumwani Division; the division had common boundaries with Kamukunji Constituency prior to 2013. The sub-county is headquartered in Pumwani, headed by a Deputy County Commissioner, working under the Ministry of Interior.[9]

References

1. Center for Multiparty Democracy: Politics and Paliamenterians in Kenya 1944–2007
2. The Standard, 12 August 2008: Kamukunji: Eyes now shift to Starehe^[usurped]
3. Daily Nation, 27 January 2011: Kamukunji MP loses seat in poll petition
4. [1] Daily Nation, 21 April 2011
5. [2] Capital FM, 2 August 2011
6. Kamukunji MP Abdi Yusuf Hassan retains his seat for the fourth time, retrieved 23 August 2022
7. information.go.ke: CDF allocation by sector and location (2003–6) Archived 27 March 2009 at the Wayback Machine
8. Electoral Commission of Kenya: Registered voters per polling station by electoral area/ward and constituency Archived 29 September 2007 at the Wayback Machine
9. "County Governments Act No. 17 of 2012" (PDF). Law Society of Kenya. p. 39. Retrieved 4 November 2022.

External links

• Map of the constituency
• Uchaguzikenya.com – Constituency profile