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Marsabit 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. 459,785 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 (895) and changes of particulars (7) 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 · Marsabit
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. 459,785 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.
38,296 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 Marsabit in Parliament.
2022 election — who won here
Declared winners from the IEBC Kenya Gazette.
County-wide winners · 2022
GovernorAli Mohamud MohamedUDM · 38,803 votesGazette 9949
SenatorChute Mohamed SaidUDA · 41,760 votesGazette 9955
Woman RepresentativeWaqo Naomi JilloUDA · 30,831 votesGazette 9951
Constituencies & registered voters
Constituency winners · 2022
LaisamisLekuton JosephUDM · 6,127 votesGazette 9950
MoyaleJaldesa Guyo WaqoUPIA · 15,993 votesGazette 9950
North HorrGuyo Adhe WarioKANU · 14,750 votesGazette 9950
SakuRaso Dido AliUDA · 7,192 votesGazette 9950
County Assembly (MCA) winners — 20 wards
- Golbo · Dida Adi Edin 4,978 KANU
- Sagante Jaldesa · Guyo Amos Wako 3,881 UDA
- Marsabit Central Godana · Jacob Elisha United Party of Independent Alliance 3,584 UPIA
- Maikona · Diba Buke Yattani 3,339 UPIA
- Korr/Ngurunit · Arakhole Daud Tamagot 3,087 JP
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- North Horr · Ruru Tura Elema 2,978 KANU
- Dukana · Adano Boru 2,876 UPIA
- Uran · Ali Halkano Konso 2,494 UDA
- Butiye · Hapicha Dida Omar 2,457 UDA
- Turbi · Galgallo Huka Mamo 2,379 JP
- Sololo · Huka Boru John 2,097 FORD
- Moyale Township · Ibrahim Mohamed Issack 1,791 UPIA
- Karare · Leruk Joseph Admen 1,732 UPIA
- Heilu/Manyatta · Michal Siba Haila 1,650 ODM
- Obbu · Rare Halkano Sora 1,560 UDM
- Loiyangalani · Emojo Daniel Musa 1,543 UDA
- Illeret · Korie James Korie 1,529 UDM
- Laisamis · Burcha Daniel Ltinyilan 1,376 JP
- Logo Logo · Leakono Bernard Leakono 1,144 UPIA
- Kargi/South Horr Ogom · Christopher Matahdere United Democratic Movement 1,094 UDM
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| Ward | Constituency | Winner | Party | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kargi/South Horr Ogom | Laisamis | Christopher Matahdere United Democratic Movement | UDM | 1,094 |
| Korr/Ngurunit | Laisamis | Arakhole Daud Tamagot | JP | 3,087 |
| Laisamis | Laisamis | Burcha Daniel Ltinyilan | JP | 1,376 |
| Logo Logo | Laisamis | Leakono Bernard Leakono | UPIA | 1,144 |
| Loiyangalani | Laisamis | Emojo Daniel Musa | UDA | 1,543 |
| Butiye | Moyale | Hapicha Dida Omar | UDA | 2,457 |
| Golbo | Moyale | Dida Adi Edin | KANU | 4,978 |
| Heilu/Manyatta | Moyale | Michal Siba Haila | ODM | 1,650 |
| Moyale Township | Moyale | Ibrahim Mohamed Issack | UPIA | 1,791 |
| Obbu | Moyale | Rare Halkano Sora | UDM | 1,560 |
| Sololo | Moyale | Huka Boru John | FORD | 2,097 |
| Uran | Moyale | Ali Halkano Konso | UDA | 2,494 |
| Dukana | North Horr | Adano Boru | UPIA | 2,876 |
| Illeret | North Horr | Korie James Korie | UDM | 1,529 |
| Maikona | North Horr | Diba Buke Yattani | UPIA | 3,339 |
| North Horr | North Horr | Ruru Tura Elema | KANU | 2,978 |
| Turbi | North Horr | Galgallo Huka Mamo | JP | 2,379 |
| Karare | Saku | Leruk Joseph Admen | UPIA | 1,732 |
| Marsabit Central Godana | Saku | Jacob Elisha United Party of Independent Alliance | UPIA | 3,584 |
| Sagante Jaldesa | Saku | Guyo Amos Wako | UDA | 3,881 |
Source: IEBC · Kenya Gazette · Gazette 9956 · declared winners only, not per-candidate tallies.
Parliamentary activity
What Marsabit'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.
Marsabit 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 Marsabit County
National-government development money allocated per constituency — not the county government's budget.
- Moyale KSh 211,874,573
- Laisamis KSh 192,613,248
- North Horr KSh 192,613,248
- Saku KSh 173,351,923
Allocations by constituency and financial year
| Constituency | FY 2025/26 | FY 2024/25 | FY 2023/24 | FY 2022/23 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Laisamis NG-CDF record → | KSh 192,613,248 | KSh 179,441,954 | KSh 175,361,810 | KSh 145,087,603 |
| Moyale NG-CDF record → | KSh 211,874,573 | KSh 197,386,150 | KSh 192,897,991 | KSh 158,832,745 |
| North Horr NG-CDF record → | KSh 192,613,248 | KSh 179,441,954 | KSh 175,361,810 | KSh 145,087,603 |
| Saku NG-CDF record → | KSh 173,351,923 | KSh 161,497,759 | KSh 157,825,629 | KSh 131,342,462 |
Source: NG-CDF Board, checked against their own record before publication.
How this compares
KSh 770.5M 36th of 47
Ahead of 23% · median KSh 1.16B
166,912 43rd of 47
Ahead of 9% · median 398,981
1,421 13th of 47
Ahead of 72% · median 916
10 28th of 47
Ahead of 38% · median 12
18 19th of 47
Ahead of 60% · median 16
207 3rd of 47
Ahead of 94% · median 73
0 37th of 47
Ahead of 0% · median 2
1,912 2nd of 47
Ahead of 96% · 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.