1963 Kenyan general election

none August 2020 August 2020 Kenya colonial 1961 18–26 May 1963 1969 yes House of Representatives All 129 seats in the House of Representatives 65 Jomo Kenyatta Kenya African National Union 19 83 53.60 Ronald Ngala Kenya African Democratic Union 11 33 25.83 Paul Ngei APP #da7987 new 8 7.43 yes Senate All 38 seats in the Senate 20 Jomo Kenyatta Kenya African National Union New 18 59.18 Ronald Ngala Kenya African Democratic Union New 16 27.31 Paul Ngei APP New #da7987 2 8.46 NPAU New 1 – – Independents New 1 4.73 1963 Kenyan general election map.svg Results for the House (left) and Senate (right) Prime Minister Prime Minister after election Jomo Kenyatta Kenya African National Union Jomo Kenyatta Kenya African National Union General elections were held in Kenya Colony between 18 and 26 May 1963.Sanger Clyde Nottingham John 1964 The Kenya General Election of 1963 https://www.jstor.org/stable/158993 The Journal of Modern African Studies 2 1 1–40 0022-278X Voters elected members of the House of Representatives and Senate. The election was the last before independence later in the year. The result was a victory for the Kenya African National Union (KANU), which won 83 of the 124 seats in the House of Representatives and 18 of the 38 seats in the Senate. Five seats in the House and three in the Senate remained unfilled due to a secessionist conflict on the border with Somalia.Kenya: 1963 House of Representatives election results EISA Campaign A total of 275 candidates contested the elections for the House of Representatives; 90 from KANU, 59 from the Kenya African Democratic Union (KADU), 20 from the African People's Party (APP), five from the Baluhya Political Union (BPU), three from the Coast People's Party and 98 independents."Electioneering Violence in Kenya", East Africa and Rhodesia, 16 May 1963, p790 KADU, the APP and the BPU agreed to work together to try to defeat KANU. Conduct Pre-election violence occurred in Kangundo when a group of Kamba attacked KANU supporters, injuring fourteen people. Eleven people were arrested after KADU supporters were attacked outside party offices in Kitale. Results House of Representatives Constituency National Total +/– Kenya African National Union 988311 72 11 83 +64 Kenya African Democratic Union 476218 32 1 33 +22 African People's Party 137008 8 0 8 New #da7987 Baluhya Political Union 14896 0 0 0 −1 Coast People's Party 9135 0 0 0 0 Independents 218311 0 0 0 New Vacant 5 − 5 − 117 12 129 +96 2583000 EISA, Sternberger et al.Dolf Sternberger, Bernhard Vogel, Dieter Nohlen & Klaus Landfried (1978) Die Wahl der Parlamente: Band II: Afrika, Erster Halbband, p973 Senate The Nyanza Province African Union won its seat unopposed, whilst KANU (five) and KADU (four) won a further nine unopposed. Kenya African National Union 1028906 18 Kenya African Democratic Union 474933 16 African People's Party 147039 2 #da7987 Baluhya Political Union 5520 0 Nyanza Province African Union 1 Independents 82328 1 7662 2583000 EISA References Kenya Category:Elections in Kenya General Category:Kenya Colony Category:Election and referendum articles with incomplete results Kenya