Budalangi Constituency

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Budalangi Constituency is an electoral constituency in Kenya. It is one of seven constituencies in Busia County. The constituency was established for the 1997 elections. The physical setting of Budalangi at the floodplain of River Nzoia and increased runoff from degraded catchments has been contributory factors to flooding disasters experienced in the region every year, destroying thousands of crop fields and leaving thousands of families homeless. In most cases, River Nzoia breaks its banks due to the backflow of Lake Victoria, flooding the entire filed within days. The most recent catastrophic disaster was caused by Lake Kanyaboli which broke all of its dykes and drained more than 50% of its volume to the region, sweeping away everything on its way.{{Cite web |last=Amadala |first=Benson |date=2022-01-15 |title=The forgotten Budalangi floods victims |url=https://nation.africa/kenya/counties/busia/the-forgotten-budalangi-floods-victims-3683404 |access-date=2023-06-08 |website=Nation |language=en}}{{Cite journal |last=Buranajarukorn |first=Panu |date=2020-03-13 |title=Factors Influencing the Uptake of Flood Mitigation Measured in Budalangi, Kenya |url=https://www.academia.edu/84685803 |journal=Geographia Technica |via=Academia}}

Members of Parliament

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Elections

!MPCenter for Multiparty Democracy: [http://www.cmd.or.ke/images/Politics%20and%20Paliamenterians%20in%20Kenya.pdf Politics and Parliamentarians in Kenya 1944–2007] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081028212845/http://www.cmd.or.ke/images/Politics%20and%20Paliamenterians%20in%20Kenya.pdf |date=28 October 2008 }}

!Party

!Notes

1997Raphael Bitta Sauti WanjalaFord-K
2002Raphael Bitta Sauti WanjalaNARC
2007Ababu NamwambaODM
2013|Ababu Namwamba ODM Defected to LPK
2017

|Raphael Bitta Sauti Wanjala

|ODM

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2022

|Raphael Bitta Sauti Wanjala

|ODM

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Locations and wards

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Location

!Population*

Bunyala Central10,699
Bunyala East13,877
Bunyala North13,343
Bunyala South6,314
Bunyala West16,064
Khajula7,395
Totalx
colspan="2"|1999 census.information.go.ke:

[http://www.information.go.ke/cdf_docs/2003-2006-Budalangi.pdf CDF allocation by sector and location (2003–6)]{{Dead link|date=June 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

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Ward

!Registered Voters

Bunyala Central7725
Bunyala West14863
Bunyala North13637
Bunyala South9807
Total46,032
colspan="2" | {{smaller|*August 2022.Electoral Commission of Kenya: [http://www.agendaafrica.com/files/Voters.pdf Registered voters per polling station by electoral area/ward and constituency] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070929025048/http://www.agendaafrica.com/files/Voters.pdf |date=29 September 2007 }}}}

References