Background.
Kakamega County is a county in the former Western Province of Kenya and borders Vihiga County to the South, Siaya County to the West, Bungoma and Trans Nzoia Counties to the North and Nandi and Uasin Gishu Counties to the East. The county is constituted of 12 constituencies, 60 wards and 1,497 polling stations. According to 2019 National Census Kakamega County has a population of 1,867,579and an covers an area of 3,033.8 km2.
In last general election Kakamega county had 743,736 registered voters, below is a snippet from our system showcasing graphical voter distribution across the 12 constituencies.
Gubernatorial Election Results
In the last General election, the Kakamega County Governor position attracted 5 candidates namely, Oparanyah Wycliffe Ambetsa (Orange Democratic Movement), Khalwale Boni (Forum For Restoration Of Democracy-Kenya), Muruli Mable (Jubilee Party), Sakwa Michael Osundwa (Amani National Congress) and Kanyanya Suleiman Sumba (Kenya African National Union). After vote count H.E Oparanyah Wycliffe Ambetsa of ODM was declared governor after winning with 387,999 votes followed by Dr. Khalwale Boni of FORD-Kenya with 134,999. Below is an extract from our system showcasing the outcome for each candidate.
In the fourth-coming 2022 general election the position of governor is anticipated to be one of the highly contested positions with several aspirants already declaring interest in succeeding the out-going governor.
At TransTally we are all systems ready to assist candidates across the country to oversight, transmit and tally election results across their polling stations.