General elections were held in
Kenya Colony between 18 and 26 May 1963. Voters elected members of the
House of Representatives and
Senate
A senate is a deliberative assembly, often the upper house or chamber of a bicameral legislature. The name comes from the ancient Roman Senate (Latin: ''Senatus''), so-called as an assembly of the senior (Latin: ''senex'' meaning "the el ...
. The election was the last before
independence later in the year.
The result was a victory for the
Kenya African National Union (KANU), which won 83 of the 124 seats in the House of Representatives and 18 of the 38 seats in the Senate. Five seats in the House and three in the Senate remained unfilled due to a secessionist conflict on the border with
Somalia.
Kenya: 1963 House of Representatives election results
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Campaign
A total of 275 candidates contested the elections for the House of Representatives; 90 from KANU, 59 from the Kenya African Democratic Union (KADU), 20 from the African People's Party
The African People's Party (APP) was a political party in Kenya.
History
The APP was established in September 1962 by Paul Ngei after he had left the Kenya African National Union (KANU) following a disagreement with Jomo Kenyatta and Tom Mboya.R ...
(APP), five from the Baluhya Political Union
The Baluhya Political Union was a political party in Kenya.
History
The party was established in July 1960. It nominated a single candidate, Musa Amalemba in North Nyanza, for the 1961 general elections. The party received 3.3% of the national ...
(BPU), three from the Coast People's Party and 98 independents.["Electioneering Violence in Kenya", ''East Africa and Rhodesia'', 16 May 1963, p790]
KADU, the APP and the BPU agreed to work together to try to defeat KANU.[
]
Conduct
Pre-election violence occurred in Kangundo
Kangundo is a town in Kenya's Machakos County in the lower eastern region of Kenya.
Kangundo-Tala
Officially Kangundo- Tala's population is the 9th largest of any urban area in Kenya. Tala is part of Kangundo town council.
Towns in Machakos C ...
when a group of Kamba
Kamba may refer to:
*Kamba people of Kenya
*Bena-Kamba, a community in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
*Khampa, also spelled Kamba, Tibetan people of Kham
Kham (; )
is one of the three traditional Tibetan regions, the others being Amdo in ...
attacked KANU supporters, injuring fourteen people.[ Eleven people were arrested after KADU supporters were attacked outside party offices in ]Kitale
Kitale is an agricultural town in northern Rift Valley Kenya situated between Mount Elgon and the Cherangany Hills at an elevation of around . Its population is 106,187 as of 2009. Kitale is the headquarter town of Trans-Nzoia County. Kitale is r ...
.[
]
Results
House of Representatives
Senate
The Nyanza Province African Union won its seat unopposed, whilst KANU (five) and KADU (four) won a further nine unopposed.[
]
References
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