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Meru County

Meru County had 772,139 registered voters in the 2022 voter register. It has 45 wards in that register. Explore its 9 constituencies, presidential results and county election results below.

Ethnicity estimate: Meru 94%, Gikuyu, Akamba 2%. This is user-supplied context, not an official census or IEBC variable, and it has not been normalized.

Election history

2022 register

772,139

2022 declaration register

772,573

2022 turnout

66.2%

Simple 2027 projection

839,790

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Election results

Meru President Election Results 2022

Candidate field: 4
Total valid votes: 506,476
Turnout: 66.2%

Meru President Election Results 2022: candidates, parties, votes and vote shares
Rank	Candidate	Party	Vote share	Votes	Percentage
Rank 1	William RutoWinner	Party not recorded	78.77%	398,946votes	78.77% of valid votes
Rank 2	Raila Odinga	Party not recorded	20.47%	103,679votes	20.47% of valid votes
Rank 3	George Wajackoyah	Party not recorded	0.55%	2,798votes	0.55% of valid votes
Rank 4	David Mwaure	Party not recorded	0.21%	1,053votes	0.21% of valid votes

2022 county office results

GovernorKAWIRA MWANGAZAINDView all 3 candidates ?209,14841.51%

SenatorMURUNGI KATHURIUDAView all 10 candidates ?348,44268.87%

Women RepELIZABETH KARAMBU KAILEMIAUDAView all 11 candidates ?259,44551.25%

Source: 2022 GE RESULTS.xlsx, final supplied candidate results. Each overview links to its complete candidate field.

2022 ward range

Largest ward

Nkuene

30,622

Smallest ward

Athwana

9,123

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Constituency	Code	2022 registered voters
South Imenti	059	115,642
North Imenti	056	96,241
Igembe Central	052	93,434
Tigania East	055	83,527
Buuri	057	82,341
Igembe South	051	77,126
Igembe North	053	77,050
Central Imenti	058	76,495
Tigania West	054	70,283