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Laikipia 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. 518,560 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 (2,624) and changes of particulars (66) 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 · Laikipia
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. 518,560 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.
36,404 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 Laikipia in Parliament.
2022 election — who won here
Declared winners from the IEBC Kenya Gazette.
County-wide winners · 2022
GovernorIrungu Joshua WakahoraUDA · 113,783 votesGazette 9949
SenatorNderitu John KinyuaUDA · 59,947 votesGazette 9955
Woman RepresentativeKagiri Jane WangechiUDA · 69,735 votesGazette 9951
Constituencies & registered voters
Constituency winners · 2022
Laikipia EastKiunjuri Festus MwangiTSP · 30,057 votesGazette 9950
Laikipia NorthKorere Sarah PaulataJP · 14,148 votesGazette 9950
Laikipia WestKarani Stephen WachiraUDA · 42,172 votesGazette 9950
County Assembly (MCA) winners — 15 wards
- Nanyuki · Wambui Anthony Theuri 11,347 UDA
- Igwamiti · John Irene Wachuka 8,935 UDA
- Githiga · Macharia Joseph Gitahi 6,645 UDA
- Marmanet · Kimani Simon Kanyutu 6,638 IND
- Rumuruti Township · Maina John Gichuki 5,584 UDA
Show the other 10 of 15, same scale
- Umande · Muchemi Daniel Mugweru 5,120 UDA
- Ngobit · Kibui Catherine Nyokabi United Democratic Alliance 5,069 UDA
- Thingithu · Kamau Stephen Ndiritu 5,055 UDA
- Ol-Moran · Wairimu George Karuiru 3,979 UDA
- Sosian · Parleto Lekopien Sammy 3,592 ODM
- Tigithi · Muturi Nicholas Mwaniki 2,952 UDA
- Salama · Gatati Samuel Mugambi 2,245 TSP
- Mugogodo East · Leshuel Paul Kirenyi 2,198 IND
- Segera · Lowaya Salim Edung 1,500 UDA
- Mugogodo West · Nicholas Lempaira Korkole 1,340 ODM
Show all 15 wards as a table
| Ward | Constituency | Winner | Party | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nanyuki | Laikipia East | Wambui Anthony Theuri | UDA | 11,347 |
| Ngobit | Laikipia East | Kibui Catherine Nyokabi United Democratic Alliance | UDA | 5,069 |
| Thingithu | Laikipia East | Kamau Stephen Ndiritu | UDA | 5,055 |
| Tigithi | Laikipia East | Muturi Nicholas Mwaniki | UDA | 2,952 |
| Umande | Laikipia East | Muchemi Daniel Mugweru | UDA | 5,120 |
| Mugogodo East | Laikipia North | Leshuel Paul Kirenyi | IND | 2,198 |
| Mugogodo West | Laikipia North | Nicholas Lempaira Korkole | ODM | 1,340 |
| Segera | Laikipia North | Lowaya Salim Edung | UDA | 1,500 |
| Sosian | Laikipia North | Parleto Lekopien Sammy | ODM | 3,592 |
| Githiga | Laikipia West | Macharia Joseph Gitahi | UDA | 6,645 |
| Igwamiti | Laikipia West | John Irene Wachuka | UDA | 8,935 |
| Marmanet | Laikipia West | Kimani Simon Kanyutu | IND | 6,638 |
| Ol-Moran | Laikipia West | Wairimu George Karuiru | UDA | 3,979 |
| Rumuruti Township | Laikipia West | Maina John Gichuki | UDA | 5,584 |
| Salama | Laikipia West | Gatati Samuel Mugambi | TSP | 2,245 |
Source: IEBC · Kenya Gazette · Gazette 9956 · declared winners only, not per-candidate tallies.
Parliamentary activity
What Laikipia'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.
Laikipia 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 Laikipia County
National-government development money allocated per constituency — not the county government's budget.
- Laikipia West KSh 202,243,910
- Laikipia East KSh 192,613,248
- Laikipia North KSh 182,982,585
Allocations by constituency and financial year
| Constituency | FY 2025/26 | FY 2024/25 | FY 2023/24 | FY 2022/23 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Laikipia East NG-CDF record → | KSh 192,613,248 | KSh 179,441,954 | KSh 175,361,810 | KSh 145,087,603 |
| Laikipia North NG-CDF record → | KSh 182,982,585 | KSh 170,469,857 | KSh 166,593,720 | KSh 138,215,033 |
| Laikipia West NG-CDF record → | KSh 202,243,910 | — | KSh 184,347,901 | KSh 151,960,174 |
Source: NG-CDF Board, checked against their own record before publication.
How this compares
KSh 577.8M 43rd of 47
Ahead of 4% · median KSh 1.16B
263,012 34th of 47
Ahead of 28% · median 398,981
602 37th of 47
Ahead of 21% · median 916
5 39th of 47
Ahead of 15% · median 12
6 40th of 47
Ahead of 11% · median 16
41 40th of 47
Ahead of 15% · median 73
1 25th of 47
Ahead of 23% · median 2
7 41st of 47
Ahead of 6% · 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.