County profile
Kirinyaga County
Its Senator, Woman Representative and MPs — what they contribute in both Houses — plus the official NG-CDF money reaching its 4 constituencies.
Representatives
Who speaks for Kirinyaga in Parliament.
2022 election — who won here
Declared winners from the IEBC Kenya Gazette.
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Registered voters: 376,001 were on IEBC's 2022 Register of Voters for this county. That is the electorate, not the turnout — the gazette records the winner's votes, and no total-ballots-cast figure is published here.
Against the population: the 2019 census counted 397,302 people aged 18 and over in Kirinyaga, so the register holds 94.6 registered voters for every 100 of them. The two counts are 3 years apart and the register is the later one: the 37,297 people here who were 15, 16 or 17 on census night had all reached voting age by 2022. They are in the register and not in the population it is divided by, which lifts this figure. It is a ratio of two counts, not a registration rate, and there is no comparable figure below county level, because the Bureau's sub-counties are not constituencies.
Registered voters by constituency — 4 seats — tap to expand
| Constituency | IEBC code | Registered voters | Polling stations |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mwea | 100 | 131,714 | — |
| Gichugu | 101 | 92,495 | — |
| Kirinyaga Central | 103 | 82,049 | — |
| Ndia | 102 | 69,743 | — |
Governor: Waiguru Anne Mumbi (UDA) · 113,088 votes · Gazette 9949
Senator: Murango James Kamau (UDA) · 196,141 votes · Gazette 9955
Woman Representative: Maina Jane Njeri (UDA) · 175,001 votes · Gazette 9951
County Assembly (MCA) winners — 20 wards — tap to expand
| Ward | Constituency | Winner | Party | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Baragwi | Gichugu | Mathenge David Munyi | UDA | 7,437 |
| Kabare | Gichugu | Mbogo Isaiah Muriithi | UDA | 7,248 |
| Karumandi | Gichugu | Muriithi Caroline Wanjiku | UDA | 4,834 |
| Ngariama | Gichugu | Mbungu Daniel Muriithi | UDA | 5,507 |
| Njukiini | Gichugu | Kathuri Timothy Kariuki | UDA | 5,522 |
| Inoi | Kirinyaga Central | Karimi Fredrick Maina | UDA | 6,085 |
| Kanyekiini | Kirinyaga Central | Maina Waziri Moses Migwi United Democratic Alliance | UDA | 8,597 |
| Kerugoya | Kirinyaga Central | Muchina Eric Muriithi | UDA | 6,925 |
| Mutira | Kirinyaga Central | Wangui David Kinyua | UDA | 10,417 |
| Gathigiriri | Mwea | Ngahu Benson Waweru | UDA | 2,369 |
| Kangai | Mwea | Wambu James Njiru | UDA | 5,395 |
| Murinduko | Mwea | Nyaga Charles Nyamu | TSP | 3,398 |
| Mutithi | Mwea | Njamumo Jinaro Namu | UDA | 3,372 |
| Nyangati | Mwea | Ndambiri Kenneth Mwendia | UDA | 5,477 |
| Tebere | Mwea | Karinga Peter Muthii | UDA | 8,373 |
| Thiba | Mwea | Muthura Joseph Kiragu | TSP | 4,826 |
| Wamumu | Mwea | Njiru Peter Gitonga | JP | 4,206 |
| Kariti | Ndia | Kariuki Jeremiah Makimi | UDA | 5,934 |
| Kiine | Ndia | Gakuru Geoffrey Murimi | UDA | 7,268 |
| Mukure | Ndia | Muriuki Thomas Mwangi | UDA | 6,475 |
Source: IEBC · Kenya Gazette · Gazette 9956 · declared winners only, not per-candidate tallies.
Parliamentary activity
What Kirinyaga's members do across both Houses.
Certified Hansard contributions in the current Parliament; presiding-officer speech is never counted, and each representative's own count is shown on their card above. Browse the full National Assembly and Senate.
Totals across both Houses for the county's current members, for the selected period, using the same counting policy as the member profiles.
Kirinyaga County government budget
What the county government itself budgeted and spent, as reported by the Controller of Budget — separate from the NG-CDF money below.
Controller of Budget, Annual FY 2024/25 — the report. Published only because all 47 counties in that table summed to the national total the report itself prints.
NG-CDF in Kirinyaga County
National-government development money allocated per constituency — not the county government's budget.
| Constituency | FY 2025/26 | FY 2024/25 | FY 2023/24 | FY 2022/23 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gichugu NG-CDF record → Projects → | KSh 192,613,248 | KSh 179,441,954 | KSh 175,361,810 | KSh 145,087,603 |
| Kirinyaga Central NG-CDF record → Projects → | KSh 182,986,585 | KSh 170,481,357 | KSh 167,748,320 | KSh 138,215,033 |
| Mwea NG-CDF record → Projects → | KSh 221,505,235 | KSh 206,358,248 | KSh 201,666,082 | KSh 165,705,316 |
| Ndia NG-CDF record → Projects → | KSh 173,351,923 | KSh 161,497,759 | KSh 159,031,629 | KSh 131,342,462 |
Source: NG-CDF Board, checked against their own record before publication.
How this compares
KSh 770.5M 35th of 47
Ahead of 26% · median 1,155,679,486.0
376,001 27th of 47
Ahead of 43% · median 398,981
846 27th of 47
Ahead of 43% · median 942
13 20th of 47
Ahead of 53% · median 12
13 27th of 47
Ahead of 43% · median 14
95 14th of 47
Ahead of 68% · median 72
0 37th of 47
Ahead of 0% · median 2
26 31st of 47
Ahead of 34% · median 42
What these numbers don’t measure
- Committee work
- Parliament publishes no committee attendance for either House, so nobody can count it — us included.
- Constituency work
- Funerals, harambees, schools, casework. Recorded nowhere we can read.
- Whether it worked
- We can count questions asked, not answers given.
- Speaking often isn’t speaking well. Use these to ask your representative better questions — not to grade them.
Data gaps
What we do not yet hold — and where it would come from.
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County-wide NG-CDF project rollup
Individual NG-CDF project records now publish on each constituency page, from that constituency committee's own register. There is no county-level rollup of them yet: NG-CDF is a constituency fund, and totalling it by county would imply a county-level allocation that does not exist.
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County government budget
The county government's own budget and expenditure (County Allocation of Revenue Act schedules, Controller of Budget county reports) are not yet ingested from their official sources.