County profile
Taita Taveta 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. 340,671 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 (2,976) and changes of particulars (26) 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.
Age profile & sources
People & the register · Taita Taveta
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. 340,671 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.
22,044 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 Taita Taveta in Parliament.
2022 election — who won here
Declared winners from the IEBC Kenya Gazette.
County-wide winners · 2022
GovernorMwadime AndrewIND · 49,901 votesGazette 9949
SenatorMwaruma Johnes MwashusheODM · 39,142 votesGazette 9955
Woman RepresentativeMizighi Lydia Haika MneneUDA · 38,363 votesGazette 9951
Constituencies & registered voters
Constituency winners · 2022
MwatateShake Peter MboghoJP · 11,317 votesGazette 9950
TavetaBwire John OkanoWDM–K · 18,742 votesGazette 9950
VoiAbdi Khamis ChomeWDM–K · 9,418 votesGazette 9950
WundanyiMwakuwona Danson MwashakoWDM–K · 16,210 votesGazette 9950
County Assembly (MCA) winners — 20 wards
- Mbololo · Mzugha Lawrence Mwanjala Orange Democratic Movement 3,039 ODM
- Kaloleni · Din Azhar Zahid 3,007 JP
- Bomani · Tondoo Crispus Metinyoki Masaga 2,673 PAA
- Mboghoni · Salim Halifa Taraya 2,588 ODM
- Chala · Kinyili Anthony Mutuku 2,283 ODM
Show the other 15 of 20, same scale
- Wundanyi /Mbale Mwamidi · Jimmy Mwandembe Orange Democratic 2,147 ODM
- Mwatate · Mwalegha Joseph Kennedy 1,898 WDM
- Rong’e · Mlughu Dorcas Mghoi 1,822 UDA
- Mahoo · Kimuyu Daniel Mutuku 1,739 JIBEBE
- Bura · Mng’ambwa Anthony Warighe 1,724 WDM
- Chawia · Mabishi Joseph Kirubai 1,638 JP
- Marungu · Mkala Stephen Nzai 1,517 ODM
- Wumingu/Kishushe · Salim Newton Kifuso 1,509 PAA
- Kasigau · Makalo Amos Mjomba 1,497 PAA
- Mata · Wayua Isaac Matolo 1,391 PEP
- Mwanda/Mgange · Chao Anselm Mwadime 1,335 PAA
- Wusi-Kishamba · Mwakufu Duncan Wangama 1,280 CPK
- Sagalla · Mwambi Brayson Masha 1,169 WDM
- Werugha · Maghanga Genard Mwandau 920 PAA
- Ngolia · Solomon Jones Muganga 848 WDM
Show all 20 wards as a table
| Ward | Constituency | Winner | Party | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bura | Mwatate | Mng’ambwa Anthony Warighe | WDM | 1,724 |
| Chawia | Mwatate | Mabishi Joseph Kirubai | JP | 1,638 |
| Mwatate | Mwatate | Mwalegha Joseph Kennedy | WDM | 1,898 |
| Rong’e | Mwatate | Mlughu Dorcas Mghoi | UDA | 1,822 |
| Wusi-Kishamba | Mwatate | Mwakufu Duncan Wangama | CPK | 1,280 |
| Bomani | Taveta | Tondoo Crispus Metinyoki Masaga | PAA | 2,673 |
| Chala | Taveta | Kinyili Anthony Mutuku | ODM | 2,283 |
| Mahoo | Taveta | Kimuyu Daniel Mutuku | JIBEBE | 1,739 |
| Mata | Taveta | Wayua Isaac Matolo | PEP | 1,391 |
| Mboghoni | Taveta | Salim Halifa Taraya | ODM | 2,588 |
| Kaloleni | Voi | Din Azhar Zahid | JP | 3,007 |
| Kasigau | Voi | Makalo Amos Mjomba | PAA | 1,497 |
| Marungu | Voi | Mkala Stephen Nzai | ODM | 1,517 |
| Mbololo | Voi | Mzugha Lawrence Mwanjala Orange Democratic Movement | ODM | 3,039 |
| Ngolia | Voi | Solomon Jones Muganga | WDM | 848 |
| Sagalla | Voi | Mwambi Brayson Masha | WDM | 1,169 |
| Mwanda/Mgange | Wundanyi | Chao Anselm Mwadime | PAA | 1,335 |
| Werugha | Wundanyi | Maghanga Genard Mwandau | PAA | 920 |
| Wumingu/Kishushe | Wundanyi | Salim Newton Kifuso | PAA | 1,509 |
| Wundanyi /Mbale Mwamidi | Wundanyi | Jimmy Mwandembe Orange Democratic | ODM | 2,147 |
Source: IEBC · Kenya Gazette · Gazette 9956 · declared winners only, not per-candidate tallies.
Parliamentary activity
What Taita Taveta'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.
Taita Taveta 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 Taita Taveta County
National-government development money allocated per constituency — not the county government's budget.
Allocations by constituency and financial year
| Constituency | FY 2025/26 | FY 2024/25 | FY 2023/24 | FY 2022/23 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mwatate NG-CDF record → | KSh 192,613,248 | KSh 179,441,954 | KSh 175,361,810 | KSh 145,087,603 |
| Taveta NG-CDF record → | KSh 192,613,248 | KSh 179,441,954 | KSh 175,533,810 | KSh 145,087,603 |
| Voi NG-CDF record → | KSh 202,243,910 | KSh 188,649,643 | KSh 184,249,901 | KSh 151,960,174 |
| Wundanyi NG-CDF record → | KSh 182,982,585 | KSh 170,469,857 | KSh 166,593,720 | KSh 138,215,033 |
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
181,827 42nd of 47
Ahead of 11% · median 398,981
371 44th of 47
Ahead of 6% · median 916
7 35th of 47
Ahead of 21% · median 12
2 44th of 47
Ahead of 4% · median 16
101 12th of 47
Ahead of 72% · median 73
8 2nd of 47
Ahead of 94% · 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 · 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.