County profile
Kwale County
People. Elections. Representation. Public money.
People & places
Largest first; equal values share a rank. County registers exclude diaspora. Select a measure for its source. The 2022 population is KNBS's projection for that year, carried forward from the 2019 census — an estimate, not a count. 866,820 residents were counted here in 2019.
County outline. Constituency boundary polygons are not held; the list opens each constituency.
Registering for 2027
Across the whole country 2,936,516 people had newly registered as voters as at Aug. 20, 2026. It already includes the county figure above and is never added to it. Continuous voter registration has run since Sept. 29, 2025.
There is no 2027 register yet — IEBC de-duplicates, audits and gazettes one first — so these cannot simply be added to the 2022 figure above.
Dates, scope & source
Enhanced Continuous Voter Registration, Phase 1, run from March 30, 2026 to April 28, 2026. Figures are IEBC's own, stated as of April 28, 2026.
Newly registered voters only. IEBC prints transfers of registration (1,995) and changes of particulars (17) in the same table; neither is a new voter and neither is added here.
The figure is IEBC's; describing it as new registrations rather than the register is ours, and the release's own sentence states no scope and no window.
Registered voters · 2017 to 2027
Between the registers held · 2017–2022
How this is worked out
Both figures compare the same county in the two registers we hold. Percentage change = (2022 count − 2017 count) ÷ 2017 count × 100. Ranks cover only counties with a register in both years. These are registrations, not votes cast.
Bars are scaled against the largest register this county itself holds, and start at zero. A year with no register held shows no bar rather than a zero.
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Age profile & sources
People & the register · Kwale
Years, scope & sources
² KNBS Volume XVI, Appendix 5: the population KNBS projects for 2022, carried forward from the 2019 census. It is an estimate of how many people live here, not a count of people enumerated. 866,820 residents were actually counted in 2019 — KNBS Volume I, Table 2.4, all persons.
The adult figure stays on 2019 because no projected one exists: Volume XVI prints five-year age bands, so 18 falls inside 15–19 and no voting-age figure is published at county level for any year. Splitting that band here would be inventing a number KNBS has not published.
¹ KNBS Volume III, Table 2.3: population distributed by age and sex; excludes the intersex population, so it sums lower than the headcount above. The adult count is aged 18+ on census night in 2019 — Volume I prints no age breakdown, so the adults figure can only come from this table. The register counts registrations in 2022, not ballots cast.
61,074 residents were aged 15–17 in 2019. Ageing, migration and the different dates can affect this comparison. This is not a registration rate. KNBS sub-counties are not constituencies; this comparison applies at county level.
Representatives
Who speaks for Kwale in Parliament.
2022 election — who won here
Declared winners from the IEBC Kenya Gazette.
County-wide winners · 2022
GovernorAchani Fatuma MohamedUDA · 59,674 votesGazette 9949
SenatorBoy Issa JumaODM · 52,772 votesGazette 9955
Woman RepresentativeMasito Fatuma HamisiODM · 58,820 votesGazette 9951
Constituencies & registered voters
Constituency winners · 2022
KinangoRai Samuel GonziPAA · 16,331 votesGazette 9950
LungalungaChiforomodo Mangale MungaUDM · 15,267 votesGazette 9950
MatugaTandaza Kassim SawaANC · 17,841 votesGazette 9950
MsambweniBader Salim FeisalUDA · 22,559 votesGazette 9950
County Assembly (MCA) winners — 20 wards
- Mkongani · Sengaza Yusuf 4,192 UDM
- Ukunda · Kitengele Omari Hamisi 4,060 ODM
- Ramisi · Mwajirani Hanifa Badi 3,800 ODM
- Gombato Bongwe · Mwachaunga Tumaini Kassim 3,709 UDA
- Dzombo · Chimakotsuma Douglas 3,242 UDA
Show the other 15 of 20, same scale
- Tsimba Golini · Mwachuo Mwaboza Omar 2,996 IND
- Pongwe Kikoneni Mwaduga · Omar Bakari United Democratic Alliance 2,982 UDA
- Kasemeni · Safari Victor Nyanje 2,883 ODM
- Kinondo · Maone Juma Athumani 2,805 JP
- Chengoni Samburu · Shede John Mwatela 2,687 PAA
- Ndavaya · Mwauchi Ali Bedzame 2,578 ODM
- Mwereni · Beny Manza Beja 2,464 PAA
- Mackinnon Road Mwanyae · Mwagawary Mwasoko Orange Democratic Movement 2,300 ODM
- Puma · Ngome James Dawah 2,247 PAA
- Waa · Mawafujo Said Hamisi 2,162 SPK
- Mwavumbo · Kombo Hamisi Mkaha 2,000 UDA
- Kubo South · Mwolovu Andrew Mulei 1,977 PAA
- Vanga · Mubwana Yusufu Hassan 1,886 UPIA
- Tiwi · Mwachimvyomo Juma Ali Kenya African Democratic Union-Asili ASILI 1,699 KADU
- Kinango · Masyuki Richard Itambo 1,547 UDA
Show all 20 wards as a table
| Ward | Constituency | Winner | Party | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chengoni Samburu | Kinango | Shede John Mwatela | PAA | 2,687 |
| Kasemeni | Kinango | Safari Victor Nyanje | ODM | 2,883 |
| Kinango | Kinango | Masyuki Richard Itambo | UDA | 1,547 |
| Mackinnon Road Mwanyae | Kinango | Mwagawary Mwasoko Orange Democratic Movement | ODM | 2,300 |
| Mwavumbo | Kinango | Kombo Hamisi Mkaha | UDA | 2,000 |
| Ndavaya | Kinango | Mwauchi Ali Bedzame | ODM | 2,578 |
| Puma | Kinango | Ngome James Dawah | PAA | 2,247 |
| Dzombo | Lungalunga | Chimakotsuma Douglas | UDA | 3,242 |
| Mwereni | Lungalunga | Beny Manza Beja | PAA | 2,464 |
| Pongwe Kikoneni Mwaduga | Lungalunga | Omar Bakari United Democratic Alliance | UDA | 2,982 |
| Vanga | Lungalunga | Mubwana Yusufu Hassan | UPIA | 1,886 |
| Kubo South | Matuga | Mwolovu Andrew Mulei | PAA | 1,977 |
| Mkongani | Matuga | Sengaza Yusuf | UDM | 4,192 |
| Tiwi | Matuga | Mwachimvyomo Juma Ali Kenya African Democratic Union-Asili ASILI | KADU | 1,699 |
| Tsimba Golini | Matuga | Mwachuo Mwaboza Omar | IND | 2,996 |
| Waa | Matuga | Mawafujo Said Hamisi | SPK | 2,162 |
| Gombato Bongwe | Msambweni | Mwachaunga Tumaini Kassim | UDA | 3,709 |
| Kinondo | Msambweni | Maone Juma Athumani | JP | 2,805 |
| Ramisi | Msambweni | Mwajirani Hanifa Badi | ODM | 3,800 |
| Ukunda | Msambweni | Kitengele Omari Hamisi | ODM | 4,060 |
Source: IEBC · Kenya Gazette · Gazette 9956 · declared winners only, not per-candidate tallies.
Parliamentary activity
What Kwale's members do across both Houses.
Certified Hansard contributions in the current Parliament; presiding-officer speech is never counted, and each representative's own count is shown on their card above. Browse the full National Assembly and Senate.
Totals across both Houses for the county's current members, for the selected period, using the same counting policy as the member profiles.
Topics raised by members
Three leading topics per member · current parliamentary term · automated labels, not official categories. Topics may overlap.
Counts are contributions tagged with a topic, not a measure of work done within this county.
Kwale County government budget
What the county government itself budgeted and spent, as reported by the Controller of Budget — separate from the NG-CDF money below.
Controller of Budget, Annual FY 2024/25 — the report.
NG-CDF in Kwale County
National-government development money allocated per constituency — not the county government's budget.
- Kinango KSh 211,874,573
- Matuga KSh 192,613,248
- Lunga Lunga KSh 182,982,585
- Msambweni KSh 182,982,585
Allocations by constituency and financial year
| Constituency | FY 2025/26 | FY 2024/25 | FY 2023/24 | FY 2022/23 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kinango NG-CDF record → | KSh 211,874,573 | KSh 197,386,150 | KSh 192,897,991 | KSh 158,832,745 |
| Lunga Lunga NG-CDF record → | KSh 182,982,585 | KSh 170,474,857 | KSh 166,593,720 | KSh 138,215,033 |
| Matuga NG-CDF record → | KSh 192,613,248 | KSh 179,441,954 | KSh 175,361,810 | KSh 145,087,603 |
| Msambweni NG-CDF record → | KSh 182,982,585 | KSh 170,469,857 | — | — |
Source: NG-CDF Board, checked against their own record before publication.
How this compares
KSh 770.5M 37th of 47
Ahead of 17% · median KSh 1.16B
328,253 30th of 47
Ahead of 36% · median 398,981
301 45th of 47
Ahead of 4% · median 916
22 6th of 47
Ahead of 87% · median 12
1 46th of 47
Ahead of 0% · median 16
40 41st of 47
Ahead of 13% · median 73
1 25th of 47
Ahead of 23% · median 2
5 46th of 47
Ahead of 2% · median 42
What these numbers don’t measure
- Committee work
- Parliament publishes no committee attendance for either House, so nobody can count it — us included.
- Constituency work
- Funerals, harambees, schools, casework. Recorded nowhere we can read.
- Whether it worked
- We can count questions asked, not answers given.
- Speaking often isn’t speaking well. Use these to ask your representative better questions — not to grade them.
Sources & coverage
Years, geographic scope and original records.
- KNBS census · 2019 — county age/sex population, as enumerated.
- KNBS projections · Volume XVI — the population projected for 2022 from the 2019 census. An estimate, not a count.
- IEBC register · 2022 — registrations, not votes cast.
- IEBC declarations · 2022 — each winner links to the Gazette in Elections.
- Parliament — current members' records and Hansard. Topic labels are automated analysis, not Parliament's own categories.
- Controller of Budget · 2024/25 — Annual FY 2024/25.
- NG-CDF project records use each constituency's register. These and its allocations are separate from county-government spending. View records.