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The constituency is the tier of Kenya that people vote in: one member of parliament each, 290 of them, nested inside the 47 counties. It is the name a campaign poster, a bursary notice or a news bulletin gives you, and this page is all of them, grouped by the old province they sit in.
Kenya's constituencies are drawn for elections, and the constitution fixes how many there are: 290, each wholly inside one county. The count is exact and stable, which is why the map is worth learning. The 2010 constitution kept the constituencies when it created the counties, and the counties took over most of what the districts used to do. What stayed with the constituency is the seat in the National Assembly and a development fund of its own.
They are very uneven, because they were drawn on population. Nairobi has seventeen, packed into a city you can drive across in an hour, and Kiambu and Kakamega have twelve each. At the other end Laikipia, which is larger than Nairobi many times over, has three, and Isiolo and Lamu have two apiece. The north and east are a handful of enormous constituencies, while the western highlands are a mosaic of small ones that the map draws a tap area for.
Some names are used by the sources under more than one form, and the game uses the one on the ballot: Dagoretti North and Dagoretti South are the two Dagoretti constituencies, Mbeere North and Mbeere South are the Embu constituencies older maps label Siakago and Gachoka, and Chuka/Igambang'ombe is the one in Tharaka-Nithi that is sometimes just called Nithi.
Those are the eight provinces Kenya had from independence until 2013. They have no legal existence now, but Kenyans still place each other by them, and every constituency sits inside exactly one because the counties were built from the districts the provinces held. Each can be turned on and off in the start dialog.
Turkana North is the northernmost constituency, running up to the Ilemi triangle on the South Sudan border. It is huge, hot and thinly settled, and it is the point the map is framed from.
Kibra, in Nairobi, holds one of the best known informal settlements in Africa and is small enough that you will want a tap area. Its neighbours Langata, Dagoretti South and Makadara are just as hard to separate by shape alone.
Dagoretti North is the half of the old Dagoretti constituency that holds Kilimani and Kileleshwa. Some sources label it with the neighbourhood, so a map that says Kilimani is showing this one.
290. The number is set by the constitution, and each constituency lies wholly inside one of the 47 counties.
A county is the unit of devolved government, with a governor and an assembly. A constituency is an election area for a member of the National Assembly. Kenya has 47 counties and 290 constituencies, with between two and seventeen constituencies in a county.
No. Sub-counties are administrative units of the national government and county governments, and the lists do not line up one for one. This game draws the 290 constituencies.
Nairobi has seventeen, followed by Kiambu and Kakamega with twelve each and Nakuru with eleven.
The tier above this one is Kenya Counties. For another African country at this level, see Rwanda Districts.
