County profile
Samburu 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. 310,327 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 (659) and changes of particulars (2) 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 · Samburu
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. 310,327 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.
23,251 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 Samburu in Parliament.
2022 election — who won here
Declared winners from the IEBC Kenya Gazette.
County-wide winners · 2022
GovernorLelelit Lati JonathanUDA · 40,740 votesGazette 9949
SenatorLelegwe Steve LtumbesiUDA · 40,066 votesGazette 9955
Woman RepresentativeLenguris PaulineUDA · 29,283 votesGazette 9951
Constituencies & registered voters
Constituency winners · 2022
Samburu EastLentoijoni Jackson LekumontareKANU · 7,271 votesGazette 9950
Samburu NorthLetipila Dominic EliUDA · 13,768 votesGazette 9950
Samburu WestLesuuda Josephine NaisulaKANU · 15,855 votesGazette 9950
County Assembly (MCA) winners — 15 wards
- Maralal · Loloju Joseph Lekoren 5,460 JP
- Suguta Marmar · Leleruk James Koileken 2,629 KANU
- Waso · Lpesina Kelvin Lemantaan 2,366 UDA
- Ndoto · Lealmusia Ali 2,305 PNU
- Loosuk · Lenamparasio Phelix Caunda 2,126 UDA
Show the other 10 of 15, same scale
- Wamba West · Lemartile Francis Ltirisen 1,993 JP
- Nyiro · Lemoosa Maura Lekuram 1,965 JP
- Wamba North · Lentukunye Christopher 1,765 JP
- Lodokejek · Lekuchula David Leinas 1,563 UDA
- Elbarta · Leitoro Jeremiah Loitemu 1,429 JP
- Wamba East · Lelenkeju Jackson Layan 1,372 UDA
- Angata Nanyekie · Leshimpiro Paul Husima 1,300 JP
- Poro · Leerte Patrick 1,084 ANC
- Baawa · Lenanguram James Ntiituk 959 JP
- Nachola · Lorunyei Lawrence Sebastian United Democratic Alliance 878 UDA
Show all 15 wards as a table
| Ward | Constituency | Winner | Party | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wamba East | Samburu East | Lelenkeju Jackson Layan | UDA | 1,372 |
| Wamba North | Samburu East | Lentukunye Christopher | JP | 1,765 |
| Wamba West | Samburu East | Lemartile Francis Ltirisen | JP | 1,993 |
| Waso | Samburu East | Lpesina Kelvin Lemantaan | UDA | 2,366 |
| Angata Nanyekie | Samburu North | Leshimpiro Paul Husima | JP | 1,300 |
| Baawa | Samburu North | Lenanguram James Ntiituk | JP | 959 |
| Elbarta | Samburu North | Leitoro Jeremiah Loitemu | JP | 1,429 |
| Nachola | Samburu North | Lorunyei Lawrence Sebastian United Democratic Alliance | UDA | 878 |
| Ndoto | Samburu North | Lealmusia Ali | PNU | 2,305 |
| Nyiro | Samburu North | Lemoosa Maura Lekuram | JP | 1,965 |
| Lodokejek | Samburu West | Lekuchula David Leinas | UDA | 1,563 |
| Loosuk | Samburu West | Lenamparasio Phelix Caunda | UDA | 2,126 |
| Maralal | Samburu West | Loloju Joseph Lekoren | JP | 5,460 |
| Poro | Samburu West | Leerte Patrick | ANC | 1,084 |
| Suguta Marmar | Samburu West | Leleruk James Koileken | KANU | 2,629 |
Source: IEBC · Kenya Gazette · Gazette 9956 · declared winners only, not per-candidate tallies.
Parliamentary activity
What Samburu's members do across both Houses.
Hansard contributions in the current Parliament. Speech made while chairing a sitting 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.
Samburu 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 2025/26 — the report.
NG-CDF in Samburu County
National-government development money allocated per constituency — not the county government's budget.
- Samburu North KSh 202,243,910
- Samburu West KSh 192,613,248
- Samburu East KSh 182,982,585
Allocations by constituency and financial year
| Constituency | FY 2025/26 | FY 2024/25 | FY 2023/24 | FY 2022/23 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Samburu East NG-CDF record → | KSh 182,982,585 | KSh 170,469,857 | KSh 166,593,720 | KSh 138,215,033 |
| Samburu North NG-CDF record → | KSh 202,243,910 | KSh 188,414,052 | KSh 184,129,901 | — |
| Samburu West NG-CDF record → | KSh 192,613,248 | KSh 179,441,954 | KSh 175,361,810 | KSh 145,087,603 |
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
100,014 45th of 47
Ahead of 4% · median 398,981
376 43rd of 47
Ahead of 9% · median 916
9 30th of 47
Ahead of 32% · median 12
3 43rd of 47
Ahead of 9% · median 16
49 36th of 47
Ahead of 23% · median 73
3 14th of 47
Ahead of 66% · median 2
532 5th of 47
Ahead of 89% · 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 · 2025/26 — Annual FY 2025/26.
- NG-CDF project records use each constituency's register. These and its allocations are separate from county-government spending. View records.