Kisumu Town East Constituency
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Kisumu Town East is an electoral constituency
in Kenya
. It is one of three constituencies of Kisumu District
. The constituency was established for the 1997 elections, when the larger Kisumu Town Constituency was split into Kisumu Town West
and East Constituencies. The constituency has six wards, all electing councillors for Kisumu
municipality.
Constituencies of Kenya
Constituencies of Kenya are used to select members of the Kenyan parliament. Currently there are 210 constituencies in Kenya. However, following the promulgation of the new constitution, the number of constituencies are to be increased to 290...
in Kenya
Kenya
Kenya , officially known as the Republic of Kenya, is a country in East Africa that lies on the equator, with the Indian Ocean to its south-east...
. It is one of three constituencies of Kisumu District
Kisumu District
Kisumu District is an administrative district of Nyanza Province in western Kenya. Its headquarters is Kisumu City. It has a population of 504,359 and a land area of 919 km² . The main industries are subsistence agriculture and fishery on Lake Victoria. Kisumu Town is the main commercial...
. The constituency was established for the 1997 elections, when the larger Kisumu Town Constituency was split into Kisumu Town West
Kisumu Town West Constituency
Kisumu Town West is an electoral constituency in Kenya. It is one of three constituencies of Kisumu District. The constituency was established for the 1997 elections, when the larger Kisumu Town Constituency was split into Kisumu Town East and West Constituencies. The constituency has eleven wards,...
and East Constituencies. The constituency has six wards, all electing councillors for Kisumu
Kisumu
Kisumu is a port city in western Kenya at , with a population of 355,024 . It is the third largest city in Kenya, the principal city of western Kenya, the immediate former capital of Nyanza Province and the headquarters of Kisumu County. It has a municipal charter but no city charter...
municipality.
Members of Parliament
| Elections | MP | Party | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1997 Kenyan general election, 1997 General elections were held in Kenya on 29 December 1997. The result was a victory for the ruling Kenya African National Union, which won 107 of the 210 seats in the National Assembly, and whose candidate Daniel arap Moi won the presidential election... |
Gor Sunguh Gor Sunguh Gor Sunguh is a politician and former member of Parliament in Kenya as reperesentaive of Kisumu Town East Constituency. He was appopinted, in 2003, to head commission of inquiry tasked with investigating the death under mysterious circumstances of former Kenyan Foreign Affairs minister Robert Ouko... |
NDP National Development Party (Kenya) The National Development Party was political party in Kenya which was of national importance between 1994 and 2001.-Becoming Odinga's party:... |
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| 2002 | Gor Sunguh Gor Sunguh Gor Sunguh is a politician and former member of Parliament in Kenya as reperesentaive of Kisumu Town East Constituency. He was appopinted, in 2003, to head commission of inquiry tasked with investigating the death under mysterious circumstances of former Kenyan Foreign Affairs minister Robert Ouko... |
NARC National Rainbow Coalition The National Rainbow Coalition was a coalition of Kenyan political parties in power from 2002 and 2005 when it fell apart in a controversy between its wings about a constitutional referendum.-Formation:... |
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| 2007 Kenyan general election, 2007 Kenyan general election, 2007 was held on 27 December 2007 . It comprised Presidential, parliamentary and civic elections. The previous general election in Kenya was held in 2002.-See also:*Kenyan presidential election, 2007... |
Ahmed Shakeel Shabbir Ahmed Ahmed Shakeel Shabbir Ahmed Ahmed Shakeel Shabbir Ahmed is a Kenyan politician. He belongs to the Orange Democratic Movement and was elected to represent the Kisumu Town East Constituency in the National Assembly of Kenya since the Kenyan parliamentary election, 2007.... |
ODM Orange Democratic Movement Orange Democratic Movement refers to a political party in Kenya, which is the successor of a former grassroots people's movement which was formed in the 2005 Kenyan constitutional referendum. The erstwhile single party which separated in August 2007 into two... |
Wards
| Wards | |
| Ward | Registered Voters |
|---|---|
| Central Kolwa | 5,831 |
| East Kajulu | 4,357 |
| East Kolwa | 6,158 |
| Manyatta | 14,520 |
| Nyalenda Nyalenda Nyalenda is an established slum suburb of Kenya's third largest city Kisumu. It is also an electoral ward in the Kisumu Town East ConstituencyThere are large underground changaa and busaa breweries in Nyalenda.... |
8,228 |
| West Kajulu | 4,869 |
| Total | 43,963 |