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Samburu West is an electoral constituency

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 two constituencies of Samburu District

Samburu District

Samburu District is a district in Rift Valley Province, Kenya. It covers an area of roughly 21,000 km² in northern Kenya where the Samburu tribe live...

. The constituency was established for the 1969 elections.

Members of Parliament

Elections	MP	Party	Notes
1969 Kenyan general election, 1969 General elections were held in Kenya on 6 December 1969, the first since independence in 1963. The country had become a de facto one-party state after President Jomo Kenyatta had banned the Kenya African People's Union on 30 October, with Kenyatta's Kenya African National Union being the sole party...	John Kanite Lenaiyiarra	KANU Kenya African National Union The Kenya African National Union, better known as KANU is a political party which ruled Kenya for nearly 40 years after its independence from British colonial rule in 1963, until its electoral loss at the end of 2002...	One-party system
1974 Kenyan general election, 1974 General elections were held in Kenya on 14 October 1974. At the time, the country was a de facto one-party state with the Kenya African National Union being the sole party to participate in the election. 740 KANU candidates stood for the 158 National Assembly seats, with 88 incumbents defeated....	Paolo Lentano Rurumban	KANU Kenya African National Union The Kenya African National Union, better known as KANU is a political party which ruled Kenya for nearly 40 years after its independence from British colonial rule in 1963, until its electoral loss at the end of 2002...	One-party system
1979 Kenyan general election, 1979 General elections were held in Kenya on 8 November 1979. At the time, the country was a de facto one-party state with the Kenya African National Union being the sole party to participate in the election. 742 KANU candidates stood for the 158 National Assembly seats, with more than half of the...	Peter Lekaikum Lititiyo	KANU Kenya African National Union The Kenya African National Union, better known as KANU is a political party which ruled Kenya for nearly 40 years after its independence from British colonial rule in 1963, until its electoral loss at the end of 2002...	One-party system
1983 Kenyan general election, 1983 General elections were held in Kenya on 26 September 1983. At the time, the country was a one-party state with the Kenya African National Union having been made the sole party the previous year. Moer than 750 KANU candidates stood for the 158 National Assembly seats, with around 40% of incumbents ...	Peter Lekaikum Lititiyo	KANU Kenya African National Union The Kenya African National Union, better known as KANU is a political party which ruled Kenya for nearly 40 years after its independence from British colonial rule in 1963, until its electoral loss at the end of 2002...	One-party system.
1988 Kenyan general election, 1988 General elections were held in Kenya on 21 March 1988. At time the county was a one-party state with the Kenya African National Union as the sole legal party. The size of the National Assembly was expanded from 158 to 188 seats, whilst a further 12 members were appointed by President Daniel arap Moi...	Peter Steve Lengees	KANU Kenya African National Union The Kenya African National Union, better known as KANU is a political party which ruled Kenya for nearly 40 years after its independence from British colonial rule in 1963, until its electoral loss at the end of 2002...	One-party system.
1992 Kenyan general election, 1992 General elections were held in Kenya on 29 December 1992. Although they were the first multi-party elections since independence, the results were marred by allegations of ballot-box stuffing, and targeted ethnic violence in the Rift Valley Province...	Peter Steve Lengees	KANU Kenya African National Union The Kenya African National Union, better known as KANU is a political party which ruled Kenya for nearly 40 years after its independence from British colonial rule in 1963, until its electoral loss at the end of 2002...
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...	Peter Steve Lengees	KANU Kenya African National Union The Kenya African National Union, better known as KANU is a political party which ruled Kenya for nearly 40 years after its independence from British colonial rule in 1963, until its electoral loss at the end of 2002...
2002	Simon Lesirma Simon Lesirma Simon Lesirma is a Kenyan politician. He belongs to the Orange Democratic Movement and was elected to represent the Samburu West Constituency in the National Assembly of Kenya since the Kenyan parliamentary election, 2007.-References:...	KANU Kenya African National Union The Kenya African National Union, better known as KANU is a political party which ruled Kenya for nearly 40 years after its independence from British colonial rule in 1963, until its electoral loss at the end of 2002...
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...	Simon Lesirma Simon Lesirma Simon Lesirma is a Kenyan politician. He belongs to the Orange Democratic Movement and was elected to represent the Samburu West Constituency in the National Assembly of Kenya since the Kenyan parliamentary election, 2007.-References:...	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

Ward	Registered Voters	Local Authority Local authorities of Kenya Local authorities in Kenya are the bodies controlling local governance in Kenya.Kenya has four classes of local authorities: City, Municipality, Town and County council. Currently there are three authorities with city status: Nairobi, the national capital, Mombasa and Kisumu...
Wards

Biashara	3,100	Maralal Maralal Maralal is a small hillside market town in northern Kenya, lying east of the Loroghi Plateau within the Samburu District. It is the administrative headquarters of the Samburu people. The town has an urban population of 16,281 . The market was pioneered by some Somali settlers in the 1920s.Nearby... town
Lkorroto	782	Maralal town
Milimani	915	Maralal town
Ng'ari	1,563	Maralal town
Shabaa	2,239	Maralal town
Angata Nanyokie	1,319	Samburu County
Arsim	895	Samburu County
Baawa	3,157	Samburu County
Baragoi Baragoi Baragoi is a market town in Kenya, lying north of Maralal and east of the Suguta Valley. It is part of the Samburu District. The entire Baragoi division has a population of nearly 20.000 comprising mostly people from the Samburu and Turkana tribes....	1,959	Samburu County
Barsaloi	754	Samburu County
El-barta	1,374	Samburu County
Kawap	1,401	Samburu County
Lodokejek	2,851	Samburu County
Loosuk	2,651	Samburu County
Lpartuk	846	Samburu County
Marti	842	Samburu County
Nachola	1,182	Samburu County
Ndoto	2,533	Samburu County
Nyiro East	1,861	Samburu County
Nyiro West	1,118	Samburu County
Opiroi	1,793	Samburu County
Poro	2,469	Samburu County
Suguta Marmar	3,493	Samburu County
Total	37,550

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