County profile
Vihiga 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. 590,013 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 (4,409) and changes of particulars (61) 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 · Vihiga
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. 590,013 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.
48,418 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 Vihiga in Parliament.
2022 election — who won here
Declared winners from the IEBC Kenya Gazette.
County-wide winners · 2022
GovernorOttichilo Wilber KhasilwaODM · 82,367 votesGazette 9949
SenatorOsotsi Godfrey AtienoODM · 62,798 votesGazette 9955
Woman RepresentativeAdagala Beatrice KahaiANC · 52,507 votesGazette 9951
Constituencies & registered voters
Constituency winners · 2022
EmuhayaOmboko Milemba JeremiahANC · 27,717 votesGazette 9950
HamisiGimose Charles GuminiANC · 22,716 votesGazette 9950
LuandaOyugi Dick MaunguDAP-K · 15,298 votesGazette 9950
SabatiaLogova Sloya ClementUDA · 23,835 votesGazette 9950
VihigaKagesi Kivai Ernest OgesiANC · 13,890 votesGazette 9950
County Assembly (MCA) winners — 25 wards
- Central Bunyore · Tirra Paul Ananda 4,687 ANC
- West Bunyore · Osore Wimsy Manoah 4,125 ANC
- Shamakhokho · Muhiga Richard Shugh 4,062 UDP
- North East Bunyore · Esipirah Aineah Hellam 4,022 ANC
- Luanda South · Elegwa Kelvin Njiro 3,828 ODM
Show the other 20 of 25, same scale
- Busali · Kegode Florence Anganoi 3,448 ANC
- West Sabatia · Gidali Frankline Muhindi Independent 3,228 IND
- Muhudu · Amunyanyi Bonface Shanga 3,000 IND
- Jepkoyai · Caleb Gaduve Ndolo 2,913 FORD
- Luanda Township Onjiri · David Donald Nabakwe Democratic Action Party-Kenya 2,863 DAP-K
- Central Maragoli Pauline · Amwata Endesia Orange Democratic Movement 2,805 ODM
- Tambua · Mboku Manoah Karage 2,790 ODM
- Wodanga · Mwatia Vincent Atsiaya 2,736 ANC
- Mungoma · Mugata Albert Ala 2,663 ODM
- Lyaduywa /Izava · Abudiku Duncan Nkrumah 2,485 IND
- Gisambai · Obamo Erick Odei 2,442 ANC
- North Maragoli · Ivusa Domnic Baraka 2,422 ANC
- Lugaga/Wamulu ma · Muhindi Fredrick Mavisi 2,359 ODM
- Wemilabi · Akhwale Patrick J O 2,316 ODM
- Shiru · Mwashi David Lusava 2,241 ODM
- Mwibona · Anguche Zakayo Manyasa 2,115 ODM
- Banja · Ayugu Collins Anyanje 2,033 ODM
- Emabungo · Okoba Michael Katai 1,923 MCCP
- Chavakali · Yalwala Gladys Inyanje 1,839 PPOK
- South Maragoli · Kigumba Patrick Mahagwa 1,676 ODM
Show all 25 wards as a table
| Ward | Constituency | Winner | Party | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Central Bunyore | Emuhaya | Tirra Paul Ananda | ANC | 4,687 |
| North East Bunyore | Emuhaya | Esipirah Aineah Hellam | ANC | 4,022 |
| West Bunyore | Emuhaya | Osore Wimsy Manoah | ANC | 4,125 |
| Banja | Hamisi | Ayugu Collins Anyanje | ODM | 2,033 |
| Gisambai | Hamisi | Obamo Erick Odei | ANC | 2,442 |
| Jepkoyai | Hamisi | Caleb Gaduve Ndolo | FORD | 2,913 |
| Muhudu | Hamisi | Amunyanyi Bonface Shanga | IND | 3,000 |
| Shamakhokho | Hamisi | Muhiga Richard Shugh | UDP | 4,062 |
| Shiru | Hamisi | Mwashi David Lusava | ODM | 2,241 |
| Tambua | Hamisi | Mboku Manoah Karage | ODM | 2,790 |
| Emabungo | Luanda | Okoba Michael Katai | MCCP | 1,923 |
| Luanda South | Luanda | Elegwa Kelvin Njiro | ODM | 3,828 |
| Luanda Township Onjiri | Luanda | David Donald Nabakwe Democratic Action Party-Kenya | DAP-K | 2,863 |
| Mwibona | Luanda | Anguche Zakayo Manyasa | ODM | 2,115 |
| Wemilabi | Luanda | Akhwale Patrick J O | ODM | 2,316 |
| Busali | Sabatia | Kegode Florence Anganoi | ANC | 3,448 |
| Chavakali | Sabatia | Yalwala Gladys Inyanje | PPOK | 1,839 |
| Lyaduywa /Izava | Sabatia | Abudiku Duncan Nkrumah | IND | 2,485 |
| North Maragoli | Sabatia | Ivusa Domnic Baraka | ANC | 2,422 |
| West Sabatia | Sabatia | Gidali Frankline Muhindi Independent | IND | 3,228 |
| Wodanga | Sabatia | Mwatia Vincent Atsiaya | ANC | 2,736 |
| Central Maragoli Pauline | Vihiga | Amwata Endesia Orange Democratic Movement | ODM | 2,805 |
| Lugaga/Wamulu ma | Vihiga | Muhindi Fredrick Mavisi | ODM | 2,359 |
| Mungoma | Vihiga | Mugata Albert Ala | ODM | 2,663 |
| South Maragoli | Vihiga | Kigumba Patrick Mahagwa | ODM | 1,676 |
Source: IEBC · Kenya Gazette · Gazette 9956 · declared winners only, not per-candidate tallies.
Parliamentary activity
What Vihiga'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.
Vihiga 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 Vihiga County
National-government development money allocated per constituency — not the county government's budget.
- Hamisi KSh 211,874,573
- Sabatia KSh 202,243,910
- Luanda KSh 192,613,248
- Vihiga KSh 182,982,585
- Emuhaya KSh 173,351,923
Allocations by constituency and financial year
| Constituency | FY 2025/26 | FY 2024/25 | FY 2023/24 | FY 2022/23 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Emuhaya NG-CDF record → | KSh 173,351,923 | KSh 161,497,759 | KSh 157,825,629 | KSh 131,342,462 |
| Hamisi NG-CDF record → | KSh 211,874,573 | KSh 197,386,150 | KSh 192,897,991 | KSh 158,832,745 |
| Luanda NG-CDF record → | KSh 192,613,248 | KSh 179,441,954 | — | KSh 145,087,603 |
| Sabatia NG-CDF record → | KSh 202,243,910 | KSh 188,414,052 | KSh 184,129,901 | KSh 151,960,174 |
| Vihiga 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 963.1M 31st of 47
Ahead of 32% · median KSh 1.16B
310,043 32nd of 47
Ahead of 32% · median 398,981
1,134 17th of 47
Ahead of 64% · median 916
20 8th of 47
Ahead of 81% · median 12
10 32nd of 47
Ahead of 30% · median 16
98 14th of 47
Ahead of 68% · median 73
0 37th of 47
Ahead of 0% · median 2
42 23rd of 47
Ahead of 49% · 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.