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Gazette Notice No. 8024 — Spending Limits for Political parties and candidates for purposes of General Elections

Kenya Gazette notice · Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission · Gazette Notices

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Kenya Gazette notice
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Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission · Gazette Notices
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The essential point

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This August 2021 notice set spending and contribution ceilings for the 2022 General Election across presidential, county, constituency, ward and political-party campaigns, and listed the campaign activities to which the limits applied.

Evidence: Gazette Notice No. 8024, notice scope, schedules and expense categories; retained PDF physical p. 1

Why it matters

It translated campaign-finance law into office-specific ceilings and a defined expense list, showing candidates and parties both the amount and the activities governed by the notice.

Evidence: Gazette Notice No. 8024, notice scope, schedules and expense categories; retained PDF physical p. 1

Open the key points and evidence

  1. For the 2022 General Election, the notice printed a presidential-candidate spending limit of KSh 4,435,565,094.

    Gazette Notice No. 8024, First Schedule presidential limit; retained PDF physical p. 2

  2. Separate schedules covered presidential, county, constituency and ward candidates, plus political parties participating in an election.

    Gazette Notice No. 8024, First–Fifth Schedule map; retained PDF physical p. 1

  3. The Fifth Schedule itemised political-party campaign costs and printed an overall spending limit of KSh 17,712,306,733.88.

    Gazette Notice No. 8024, Fifth Schedule political-party total; retained PDF physical p. 27

  4. Contribution limits equalled the applicable spending limit, while a contribution from one source was capped at twenty percent of total contributions.

    Gazette Notice No. 8024, contribution limits 1–3; retained PDF physical p. 27

  5. The notice warned that exceeding a spending limit and failing to report it to IEBC constituted an offence under the Election Campaign Financing Act.

    Gazette Notice No. 8024, compliance notes 1–2; retained PDF physical p. 27

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