1963 Kenyan general election

The 1963 Kenyan general election was held in Kenya Colony between 18 and 26 May 1963. Voters elected members of the House of Representatives and Senate. The election was the last before independence later in the year.

1963 Kenyan general election
18-26 May 1963
All 129 seats, including 12 indirectly elected seats
65 seats needed for a majority
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Jomo Kenyatta Ronald Ngala Paul Ngei
Party KANU KADU APP
Last election 19 seats, 67.5% 11 seats, 16.3% New Party
Seats won 83 33 20
Seat change 64 22 20
Popular vote 988,311 476,218 137,008
Percentage 53.6% 25.8% 7.4%
Swing 13.9% 9.5% 7.4%
Prime Minister before election

Jomo Kenyatta
KANU

 Prime Minister after election

Jomo Kenyatta
KANU

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.[1]

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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.[2]

KADU, the APP and the BPU agreed to work together to try to defeat KANU.[2]

Conduct

Pre-election violence occurred in Kangundo when a group of Kamba attacked KANU supporters, injuring fourteen people.[2] Eleven people were arrested after KADU supporters were attacked outside party offices in Kitale.[2]

Results

House of Representatives
Party Votes % Seats
Constituency National Total +/−
Kenya African National Union988,31153.60721183+64
Kenya African Democratic Union476,21825.8332133+22
African People's Party137,0087.43808New
Baluhya Political Union14,8960.81000−1
Coast People's Party9,1350.500000
Independents218,31111.84000New
Unfilled seats−−5−5−
Total1,843,87910011712129+96
Registered voters/turnout2,583,000−−−−
Source: EISA, Sternberger et al.[3]

Senate

The Nyanza Province African Union won its seat unopposed, whilst KANU (five) and KADU (four) won a further nine unopposed.[3]

Party Votes % Seats
Kenya African National Union1,028,90659.1818
Kenya African Democratic Union474,93327.3216
African People's Party147,0398.462
Baluhya Political Union5,5200.320
Independents82,3284.731
Nyanza Province African Union––1
Invalid/blank votes7,662––
Total1,746,38810038
Registered voters/turnout2,583,000–
Source: EISA

References
  1. Kenya: 1963 House of Representatives election results EISA
  2. "Electioneering Violence in Kenya", East Africa and Rhodesia, 16 May 1963, p790
  3. Dolf Sternberger, Bernhard Vogel, Dieter Nohlen & Klaus Landfried (1978) Die Wahl der Parlamente: Band II: Afrika, Erster Halbband, p973
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