County profile
Mandera County
Its Senator, Woman Representative and MPs — what they contribute in both Houses — plus the official NG-CDF money reaching its 6 constituencies.
Representatives
Who speaks for Mandera in Parliament.
2022 election — who won here
Declared winners from the IEBC Kenya Gazette.
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Registered voters: 217,030 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 319,641 people aged 18 and over in Mandera, so the register holds 67.9 registered voters for every 100 of them. The two counts are 3 years apart and the register is the later one: the 72,053 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 — 6 seats — tap to expand
| Constituency | IEBC code | Registered voters | Polling stations |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mandera East | 043 | 48,219 | — |
| Mandera North | 041 | 45,216 | — |
| Mandera West | 039 | 37,637 | — |
| Mandera South | 042 | 34,691 | — |
| Banissa | 040 | 32,703 | — |
| Lafey | 044 | 18,564 | — |
Governor: Mohamed Adan Khalif (UDM) · 53,861 votes · Gazette 9949
Senator: Roba Ali Ibrahim (UDM) · 53,861 votes · Gazette 9955
Woman Representative: Sheikh Umul Ker Kassim (UDM) · 61,010 votes · Gazette 9951
County Assembly (MCA) winners — 30 wards — tap to expand
| Ward | Constituency | Winner | Party | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Banissa | Banissa | Abdi Issack Dahir | UDM | 4,902 |
| Derkhale | Banissa | Edin Mohamed Ibrahim United Democratic Movement | UDM | 3,559 |
| Guba | Banissa | Hassan Abdullahi Maalim | ODM | 523 |
| Kiliwehiri | Banissa | Adan Yussuf Sheikh | UDM | 2,425 |
| Malkamari | Banissa | Abdi Abdikarim Daud | UDM | 2,002 |
| Alangu Gof | Lafey | Hassan Mahat Ibrahim | UDM | 1,626 |
| Fino | Lafey | Ibrahim Abdimalik Mohamud | UDM | 689 |
| Lafey | Lafey | Rahoy Adan Hussein | KANU | 1,513 |
| Sala | Lafey | Hassan Abdihakim Ali | NARC | 764 |
| Waranqara | Lafey | Ibrahim Abdullahi Shukri | JP | 1,605 |
| Arabia | Mandera East | Ali Daud Sheikh | IND | 1,612 |
| Khalalio | Mandera East | Mohamud Mohamed Yussuf | UDM | 1,973 |
| Libehia | Mandera East | Mohamed Mohamed Abdikarim | DAP-K | 1,475 |
| Neboi | Mandera East | Ali Adan Mohamed | UDM | 1,857 |
| Township | Mandera East | Issak Feisal Abdinoor | UDM | 1,834 |
| Ashabito | Mandera North | Hussein Ismail Sheikh | UDM | 1,652 |
| Guticha | Mandera North | Yussuf Mohamed Ibrahim | UDM | 1,525 |
| Morothile | Mandera North | Hussein Adan Ali | UDM | 885 |
| Rhamu | Mandera North | Adan Hassan Hussein | UDM | 2,343 |
| Rhamu Dimtu | Mandera North | Abdille Ilyas Jimale | JP | 2,289 |
| Elwak North | Mandera South | Mohamed Adan Maalim | UDM | 1,814 |
| Elwak South | Mandera South | Ibrahim Issak Derow | UDM | 937 |
| Kutulo | Mandera South | Ibrahim Mohamed Rashid Golo | UDM | 3,022 |
| Shimbir Fatuma | Mandera South | Maalim Ibrahim Alio | UDM | 2,168 |
| Wargadud | Mandera South | Muktar Bishar Sheikh | UPIA | 1,711 |
| Dandu | Mandera West | Wariyo Ibrahim Ali | UDA | 2,038 |
| Gither | Mandera West | Mohamed Ahmed Rashid | UDM | 2,138 |
| Lagsure | Mandera West | Maalim Hussein Alio | UDM | 2,328 |
| Takaba | Mandera West | Rashid Mahdi Haji | UDM | 1,568 |
| Takaba South | Mandera West | Ibrein Adan Nura | UDM | 2,501 |
Source: IEBC · Kenya Gazette · Gazette 9956 · declared winners only, not per-candidate tallies.
Parliamentary activity
What Mandera'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.
Mandera 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 Mandera 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Banissa NG-CDF record → | KSh 192,613,248 | KSh 179,441,954 | KSh 175,361,810 | KSh 145,087,603 |
| Lafey NG-CDF record → | KSh 192,613,248 | KSh 179,441,954 | KSh 175,361,810 | KSh 145,087,603 |
| Mandera East NG-CDF record → | KSh 192,613,248 | KSh 179,441,954 | KSh 175,361,810 | KSh 145,087,603 |
| Mandera North NG-CDF record → | KSh 192,613,248 | KSh 179,441,954 | KSh 175,361,810 | KSh 145,087,603 |
| Mandera South NG-CDF record → | KSh 192,613,248 | KSh 179,441,954 | KSh 175,361,810 | KSh 145,087,603 |
| Mandera West NG-CDF record → Projects → | KSh 192,613,248 | KSh 179,441,954 | KSh 175,361,810 | KSh 145,087,603 |
Source: NG-CDF Board, checked against their own record before publication.
How this compares
KSh 1.16B 18th of 47
Ahead of 60% · median 1,155,679,486.0
217,030 38th of 47
Ahead of 19% · median 398,981
700 33rd of 47
Ahead of 30% · median 942
17 12th of 47
Ahead of 70% · median 12
42 7th of 47
Ahead of 85% · median 14
54 32nd of 47
Ahead of 28% · median 72
0 37th of 47
Ahead of 0% · median 2
71 15th of 47
Ahead of 68% · 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.