1961 Kenyan general election

Election in Kenya General elections were held in Kenya in February 1961. The result was a victory for the Kenya African National Union, which won 19 of the 53 elected seats. Electoral system Twenty seats were reserved for minority communities; ten for whites, eight for Indians and two for Arabs. There were also twelve appointees.Elections in Kenya https://web.archive.org/web/20100215180729/http://africanelections.tripod.com/ke.html 2010-02-15 African Election Database Primary elections were held for the reserved seats by members of the respective communities, and candidates receiving at least 25% of the vote advanced to the main elections.Robert M. Maxon & Thomas P. Ofcansky (2014) Historical Dictionary of Kenya, Rowman & Littlefield, p202 Of the 1,411,117 registered voters, 29,879 (2.18%) were Indian, 19,332 (1.37%) white and 5,472 (0.38%) Arabs. Results Nine constituencies (with a total of 353,251 registered voters) were uncontested, reducing the number of actual voters to 1,057,866.Dolf Sternberger, Bernhard Vogel, Dieter Nohlen & Klaus Landfried (1978) Die Wahl der Parlamente: Band II: Afrika, Erster Halbband, p972 Kenya African National Union 590661 19 Kenya African Democratic Union 143079 11 Baluhya Political Union 28817 1 New Kenya Party 28284 4 Kenya Indian Congress 10488 3 Kenya Coalition 8891 3 Kenya Freedom Party 5263 2 Kenya National Congress 4561 0 Shungwaya Freedom Party 3748 1 Coast People's Party 1693 0 Tana River Pokomo Union 699 0 African independents 13917 1 Arab independents 5712 2 Asian Hindu independents 4648 0 Asian Muslim independents 11880 3 European independents 12768 3 Appointed members 12 9678 0 1057866 Sternberger et al. References Category:Elections in Kenya Category:1961 in Kenya Kenya Category:Legislative Council of Kenya