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1963 Kenyan general election

Field	Value
country	Kenya
flag_year	colonial
previous_election	1961
election_date	18–26 May 1963
next_election	1969
module	{{Infobox legislative election
embed	yes
election_name	House of Representatives
seats_for_election	All 129 seats in the House of Representatives
majority_seats	65
leader1	Jomo Kenyatta
party1	Kenya African National Union
last_election1	19
seats1	83
percentage1	53.60
leader2	Ronald Ngala
party2	Kenya African Democratic Union
last_election2	11
seats2	33
percentage2	25.83
leader3	Paul Ngei
party3	APP
color3	#da7987
last_election3	new
seats3	8
percentage3	7.43
module	{{Infobox legislative election
embed	yes
election_name	Senate
seats_for_election	All 38 seats in the Senate
majority_seats	20
leader4	Jomo Kenyatta
party4	Kenya African National Union
last_election4	New
seats4	18
percentage4	59.18
leader5	Ronald Ngala
party5	Kenya African Democratic Union
last_election5	New
seats5	16
percentage5	27.31
leader6	Paul Ngei
party6	APP
last_election6	New
color6	#da7987
seats6	2
percentage6	8.46
party7	NPAU
last_election7	New
seats7	1
percentage7	–
leader8	–
party8	Independents
last_election8	New
seats8	1
percentage8	4.73
map	1963 Kenyan general election map.svg
map_caption	Results for the House (left) and Senate (right)
title	Prime Minister
posttitle	Prime Minister after election
before_election	Jomo Kenyatta
before_party	Kenya African National Union
after_election	Jomo Kenyatta
after_party	Kenya African National Union

General elections were held in Kenya Colony between 18 and 26 May 1963. Voters elected members of the House of Representatives and Senate. The election was the last before independence later in the year.

The result was a victory for the Kenya African National Union (KANU), which won 83 of the 124 seats in the House of Representatives and 18 of the 38 seats in the Senate. Five seats in the House and three in the Senate remained unfilled due to a secessionist conflict on the border with Somalia.

Campaign

A total of 275 candidates contested the elections for the House of Representatives; 90 from KANU, 59 from the Kenya African Democratic Union (KADU), 20 from the African People's Party (APP), five from the Baluhya Political Union (BPU), three from the Coast People's Party and 98 independents.

KADU, the APP and the BPU agreed to work together to try to defeat KANU.

Conduct

Pre-election violence occurred in Kangundo when a group of Kamba attacked KANU supporters, injuring fourteen people. Eleven people were arrested after KADU supporters were attacked outside party offices in Kitale.

Results

House of Representatives

Senate

The Nyanza Province African Union won its seat unopposed, whilst KANU (five) and KADU (four) won a further nine unopposed.

References

[http://www.eisa.org.za/wep/ken1963results.htm Kenya: 1963 House of Representatives election results] EISA
"Electioneering Violence in Kenya", ''East Africa and Rhodesia'', 16 May 1963, p790
[[Dolf Sternberger]], [[Bernhard Vogel (politician). Bernhard Vogel]], [[Dieter Nohlen]] & Klaus Landfried (1978) ''Die Wahl der Parlamente: Band II: Afrika, Erster Halbband'', p973

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