Kasarani Constituency

Kasarani Constituency is an electoral constituency in Nairobi. It is one of seventeen constituencies of Nairobi City County. The entire constituency is located within Nairobi City County. It has an area of, making it the second-largest constituency in Nairobi after Lang'ata. It borders Ruaraka, Embakasi Central, Embakasi [North Constituency|Embakasi North], Embakasi East, Roysambu constituencies to the west; Ruiru constituency to the north; Matungulu constituency to the east and Mavoko constituency to the south-east.
Kasarani Constituency forms part of two sub-counties; Kasarani Sub-county and Njiru Sub-county.

History

The constituency was known as Nairobi Northeast Constituency at the 1963 elections and as Mathare Constituency from 1966 elections to 1994 by-elections. Up until the 2007 elections it has been known as Kasarani Constituency.
Prior to the 2013 [Kenyan general election|2013 general election], Kasarani was divided into four constituencies: Kasarani, Roysambu Constituency, Ruaraka Constituency, and part of Embakasi North Constituency. Regions such as Kamulu, Njiru and Ruai, were hived off from the now defunct Embakasi Constituency and combined to the remaining part of Kasarani Constituency.

Members of Parliament

Elections	MP	Party	Notes
1963	Munyua Waiyaki	Kenya [African National Union\|KANU]
1969	Munyua Waiyaki	KANU	One-party system
1974	Munyua Waiyaki	KANU	One-party system
1979	Munyua Waiyaki	KANU	One-party system
1983	Andrew Ngumba	KANU	One-party system. Ngumba fled the country in 1986.
1986	Josephat Karanja	KANU	By-elections, One-party system
1988	Josephat Karanja	KANU	One-party system
1992	Muraya Macharia	Forum for [the Restoration of Democracy-Asili\|FORD-Asili]
1994	Fredrick Masinde	Ford-Kenya	By-elections. Masinde died, resulting in another by-elections.
1994	Ochieng Mbeo	Ford-Kenya	By-elections
1997	Adolf Muchiri	National [Development Party (Kenya)\|NDP]
2002	William Omondi	NARC
2007	Elizabeth Ongoro	ODM
2013	John Njoroge Chege	TNA
2017	Mercy Gakuya	Jubilee Party
2022	Ronald Karauri	Independent Candidate

Kasarani Sub-county

The sub-county shares the same boundaries with what was known as Kasarani Division. Areas such as Njiru, Ruai and Kamulu are in Njiru Sub-county. The whole of Roysambu, Ruaraka, and part of Embakasi North constituencies are within the Kasarani sub-county. The Sub-county is headquartered in Kasarani, and headed by the Deputy County Commissioner, working under the Ministry of Interior.