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- ↑ Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission
- ↑ Center for Multiparty Democracy: Politics and Paliamenterians in Kenya 1944-2007
- ↑ information.go.ke: CDF allocation by sector and location (2003-6) [ permanent dead link ]
- ↑ adminusr (4 November 2019). "2019 Kenya Population and Housing Census Results". Kenya National Bureau of Statistics. Retrieved 14 June 2023.
- ↑ Electoral Commission of Kenya: Registered voters per polling station by electoral area/ward and constituency Archived 29 September 2007 at the Wayback Machine