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Kasarani Constituency

Kenyan electoral constituency

Field	Value
name	Kasarani
constituency_link	List of constituencies of Kenya
parl_name	Parliament of Kenya
district_label	County
district	Nairobi City
area	152.60 km2
year	1963
members_label	Member of Parliament
members	Ronald Karauri
elects_howmany	One
party_label	Party
party	Independent

Kasarani Constituency is an electoral constituency in Nairobi. It is one of seventeen constituencies of Nairobi City County. The entire constituency is located within Nairobi City County. It has an area of 152.60 km2, making it the second-largest constituency in Nairobi after Lang'ata. It borders Ruaraka, Embakasi Central, Embakasi North, Embakasi East, Roysambu constituencies to the west; Ruiru constituency to the north; Matungulu constituency to the east and Mavoko constituency to the south-east.

Kasarani Constituency forms part of two sub-counties; Kasarani Sub-county and Njiru Sub-county.

History

The constituency was known as Nairobi Northeast Constituency at the 1963 elections and as Mathare Constituency from 1966 elections to 1994 by-elections. Up until the 2007 elections it has been known as Kasarani Constituency. Prior to the 2013 general election, Kasarani was divided into four constituencies: Kasarani, Roysambu Constituency, Ruaraka Constituency, and part of Embakasi North Constituency. Regions such as Kamulu, Njiru and Ruai, were hived off from the now defunct Embakasi Constituency and combined to the remaining part of Kasarani Constituency.

Members of Parliament

Elections	MP	Party	Notes
1963	Munyua Waiyaki	KANU
1969	Munyua Waiyaki	KANU	One-party system
1974	Munyua Waiyaki	KANU	One-party system
1979	Munyua Waiyaki	KANU	One-party system
1983	Andrew Ngumba	KANU	One-party system. Ngumba fled the country in 1986.
1986	Josephat Karanja	KANU	By-elections, One-party system
1988	Josephat Karanja	KANU	One-party system
1992	Muraya Macharia	FORD-Asili
1994	Fredrick Masinde	Ford-Kenya	By-elections. Masinde died, resulting in another by-elections.
1994	Ochieng Mbeo	Ford-Kenya	By-elections (second one in 1994)
1997	Adolf Muchiri	NDP
2002	William Omondi	NARC
2007	Elizabeth Ongoro	ODM
2013	John Njoroge Chege	TNA
2017	Mercy Gakuya	Jubilee Party
2022	Ronald Karauri	Independent Candidate

Wards

Ward	Population*	Area (km²)
Clay City	30,658	4.78
Mwiki	39,156	18.80
Kasarani	30,658	8.55
Njiru	64,551	5.20
Ruai	97,000	98.00
2019 census.information.go.ke:

Kasarani Sub-county

The sub-county shares the same boundaries with what was known as Kasarani Division. Areas such as Njiru, Ruai and Kamulu are in Njiru Sub-county. The whole of Roysambu, Ruaraka, and part of Embakasi North constituencies are within the Kasarani sub-county. The Sub-county is headquartered in Kasarani, and headed by the Deputy County Commissioner, working under the Ministry of Interior.

References

"IEBC notably alters Ligale proposals".
"List of districts in Nairobi". Tuko.
Center for Multiparty Democracy: [https://web.archive.org/web/20080228121210/http://www.cmd.or.ke/images/Politics%20and%20Paliamenterians%20in%20Kenya.pdf Politics and Paliamenterians in Kenya 1944-2007]
Daily Nation, February 18, 2002: [http://www.nationaudio.com/elections/moisuccession/Saitoti/story1.htm A position dogged by controversy]
Daily Nation, 2002: [http://www.nationaudio.com/elections/constituencyreviews/story4.htm Is re-election likely for MP?]
"County Governments Act No. 17 of 2012". Law Society of Kenya.

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