Kitui West Constituency

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Kitui West Constituency is an electoral constituency in Kenya. It is one of eight constituencies in Kitui County, which was established for the 1966 elections.

Members of Parliament

Elections !MP Center 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/20080228121210/http://www.cmd.or.ke/images/Politics%20and%20Paliamenterians%20in%20Kenya.pdf \|date=2008-02-28 }} !Party !Notes
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1966	Parmenas Nzilu Munyasia	KANU
1969	Parmenas Nzilu Munyasia	KANU	One-party system
1974	Winnie Nyiva Mwendwa	KANU	One-party system
1979	Parmenas Nzilu Munyasia	KANU	One-party system
1983	Parmenas Nzilu Munyasia	KANU	One-party system.
1984	Kitili Maluki Mwendwa	KANU	By-election, One-party system. Mwendwa died in 1985 in traffic accident David Throup & Charles Hornsby: [https://books.google.com/books?id=L_UYruQyn54C&dq=%22Kyale+Mwendwa%22&pg=PA210 Multi-party Politics in Kenya] James Currey Publishers, 1998 {{ISBN\|0-85255-804-X}}
1986	Kyale Mwendwa	KANU	By-election, One-party system.
1988	Kyale Mwendwa	KANU	One-party system.
1992	Winnie Nyiva Mwendwa	KANU
1997	Francis Nyenze	KANU
2002	Winnie Nyiva Mwendwa	NARC
2007	Charles Mutisya Nyamai	NARC
2013	Francis Nyenze	WDM-K
2017	Francis Nyenze	WDM-K	Nyenze died on December 6, 2017, barely three months after being sworn in for another term. He had battled colon cancer for almost a decade.
2018	Edith Vethi Nyenze	WDM-K	won by a landslide to succeed her Husband as 7th Member of Parliament for Kitui West and the second woman to represent the constituency after Nyiva Mwendwa.

Wards

Ward !Registered Voters !Local Authority
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Kalimani / Matinyani / Mutulu	8,215	Kitui municipality
Kithumula / Kauma	5,245	Kitui municipality
Kanyangi / Kiseuni	6,275	Kitui county
Katutu / Mutanda	4,395	Kitui county
Kivani / Kauwi	5,683	Kitui county
Kwa-Vonza	2,446	Kitui county
Kwa Mutonga / Kathivo	4,315	Kitui county
Musengo / Usiani	5,832	Kitui county
Mutonguni / Kakeani	8,672	Kitui county
Yatta / Nthongoni	7,240	Kitui county
Total	58,318
colspan="2"\| {{smaller\|*September 2005.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=2007-09-29 }}}}

References

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Category:Constituencies in Kitui County

Category:Constituencies in Eastern Province (Kenya)

Category:1966 establishments in Kenya

Category:Constituencies established in 1966