Mount Elgon Constituency is an

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Bungoma County Bungoma County is a county in the former Western Province of Kenya with its capital in Bungoma town. It has a population of 1,670,570 of which 812,146 are males and 858,389 are females as per the 2019 census. The county has an area of 2,069& ...

Western Kenya Western Province () was one of Kenya's seven administrative provinces outside Nairobi. It is inhabited mainly by the Luhya people. Quakerism is widely practised here. Kenya's second highest mountain, Mount Elgon is located in Bungoma Distr ...

. It was formerly the only constituency in the now defunct

Mount Elgon District Mount Elgon District (Mt. Elgon District) was an districts of Kenya, administrative district in the Western Province (Kenya), Western Province of Kenya. Its capital town was Kapsokwony. In 2010, it was merged into Bungoma County. Geography and de ...

. The constituency was established for the 1963 elections. It has a population of 218,873 people (2019 census). It is currently administered in three administrative units of Mt. Elgon Subcounty headquartered at Kapsokwony town, Cheptais Subcounty headquartered at Cheptais Township, and Kopsiro Subcounty whose headquarter is at Kopsiro Centre.

Members of Parliament

Since independence, Mt. Elgon constituency electorates has elected five different Members of the National Assembly (MPs). Daniel Moss was the pioneer MP in 1963, while Fred Chesebe Kapondi is the incumbent. It is worthy also noting that Mt. Elgon is the only constituency created at independence that has never been subdivided to create more electoral area units, an issue that has disenfranchised its electorate. This was witnessed by the recent call for ELEXIT (Elgon Exit from Bungoma County), a memorandum that was received at the SENATE during the highs of

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Wards

The constituency has six wards, all electing Members of County Assembly (MCAs) for the Bungoma County Assembly.

References

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