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- ↑ "Constituencies". The National Government Constituencies Development Fund (NG-CDF). Retrieved 9 June 2018.
- ↑ Center for Multiparty Democracy: Politics and Parliamentarians in Kenya 1944–2007 Archived 2008-10-28 at the Wayback Machine