County profile
Tharaka Nithi County
Its Senator, Woman Representative and MPs — what they contribute in both Houses — plus the official NG-CDF money reaching its 3 constituencies.
Representatives
Who speaks for Tharaka Nithi in Parliament.
2022 election — who won here
Declared winners from the IEBC Kenya Gazette.
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Registered voters: 231,932 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 234,005 people aged 18 and over in Tharaka Nithi, so the register holds 99.1 registered voters for every 100 of them. The two counts are 3 years apart and the register is the later one: the 27,445 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 — 3 seats — tap to expand
| Constituency | IEBC code | Registered voters | Polling stations |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chuka/Igambang'ombe | 061 | 84,674 | — |
| Tharaka | 062 | 74,010 | — |
| Maara | 060 | 73,248 | — |
Governor: Muthomi Onesmus Njuki (UDA) · 97,608 votes · Gazette 9949
Senator: Mwenda Julius Gataya (UDA) · 71,663 votes · Gazette 9955
Woman Representative: Nduyo Susan Ngugi (TSP) · 72,782 votes · Gazette 9951
County Assembly (MCA) winners — 15 wards — tap to expand
| Ward | Constituency | Winner | Party | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Igambang’ombe | Chuka-Igambang’omb e | John Joseph Njeru | UDA | 2,633 |
| Karingani | Chuka-Igambang’omb e | Muchiri Godfrey Murithi | UDA | 7,110 |
| Magumoni | Chuka-Igambang’omb e | Nderi Justin Kithinji S. | UDA | 8,408 |
| Mariani | Chuka-Igambang’omb e | Mbae Anita Karimi | UDA | 2,504 |
| Mugwe | Chuka-Igambang’omb e | Kiriko Jacob Murimi Ndeke The Service Party | TSP | 4,732 |
| Chogoria | Maara | Nyaga Frankline Mawira | IND | 4,261 |
| Ganga | Maara | Mbae Lysbeth Gatiria | IND | 4,600 |
| Mitheru | Maara | Ntwiga Nevert | TSP | 3,108 |
| Muthambi | Maara | Gitonga Morris Maugu | UDA | 4,341 |
| Mwimbi | Maara | Kabii Jones Kinegeni | UDA | 4,167 |
| Chiakariga | Tharaka | Njagi Joseph Kinyua | UDA | 2,552 |
| Gatunga | Tharaka | Mugao Salvestas Kanyaru | IND | 2,447 |
| Marimanti | Tharaka | Kamunyu Kennedy | UDA | 5,564 |
| Mukothima | Tharaka | Marengo Luke Nyagah Njeru United Democratic Alliance | UDA | 3,211 |
| Nkondi | Tharaka | Kithuka Gitonga Leonard | UDA | 2,515 |
Source: IEBC · Kenya Gazette · Gazette 9956 · declared winners only, not per-candidate tallies.
Parliamentary activity
What Tharaka Nithi'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.
Tharaka Nithi 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 Tharaka Nithi 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chuka/Igambang'ombe NG-CDF record → Projects → | KSh 192,613,248 | KSh 179,441,954 | KSh 175,361,810 | KSh 145,087,603 |
| Maara NG-CDF record → Projects → | KSh 192,674,248 | — | KSh 175,361,810 | KSh 145,087,603 |
| Tharaka 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 577.9M 42nd of 47
Ahead of 11% · median 1,155,679,486.0
231,932 36th of 47
Ahead of 23% · median 398,981
827 28th of 47
Ahead of 40% · median 942
11 25th of 47
Ahead of 43% · median 12
35 10th of 47
Ahead of 79% · median 14
54 32nd of 47
Ahead of 28% · median 72
2 16th of 47
Ahead of 49% · median 2
153 11th of 47
Ahead of 77% · 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.