Amin Walji was Kenyan Asian politician who was elected as the (KANU) representative for the

Westlands Constituency Westlands is an electoral constituency in Kenya Kenya, officially the Republic of Kenya, is a country located in East Africa. With an estimated population of more than 52.4 million as of mid-2024, Kenya is the 27th-most-populous cou ...

in the

Kenyan general election, 1992 General elections were held in Kenya on 29 December 1992 to elect the president and members of the National Assembly. They were the first multi-party general elections in Kenya since independence and the first to feature a direct vote for the pr ...

, the first multi-party elections since

independence Independence is a condition of a nation, country, or state, in which residents and population, or some portion thereof, exercise self-government, and usually sovereignty, over its territory. The opposite of independence is the status of ...

in 1963. The Westlands Constituency was a marginal seat, and Walji challenged the incumbent

Njoroge Mungai Magana Njoroge Mungai, M.D. EGH (January 7, 1926 – August 16, 2014) was a doctor, Politician - Member of Parliament, Kenyan Cabinet Minister, Businessman, Farmer, Nationalist, one of the founding fathers of the Republic of Kenya. Early life ...

for the KANU by nomination. There were claims that Mungai had won the first ballots, but concern over irregularities in the nomination process led to the nomination process being carried out three times, with a third candidate dropping out complaining that non-resident voters were being imported to rig the nominations. He died in 1996.

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