IEBC Dismisses Creation of 70 New Constituencies before 2022 General Elections
Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) Chairman Wafula Chebukati has dismissed the creation of 70 new constituencies before the 2022 elections.
Gathogo Wanjiru 
While appearing before the Senate Justice Committee IEBC’s acting CEO Marjan Marjan said the commission will complete the boundary delimitation by March 2023.
The Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) had proposed the creation of 70 new constituencies, increasing the number of legislatures from the current 290 to 360.
As per the constitution of Kenya Article 89, the commission shall review boundaries of electoral zones at intervals of not less than eight and not more than 12 years.
In May, IEBC Chairman Wafula Chebukati said in an interview that the delimitation of boundaries will kick start in September and may not be concluded before the general elections scheduled for August 2022.
Wafula further said they are going to use the official census data from the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS), and the 2019 population and housing census results, to guide the review of electoral boundaries.
