Local elections were held in

Laikipia County Laikipia County is one of the 47 Counties of Kenya, located on the Equator in the former Rift Valley Province of the Country. Laikipia is a cosmopolitan County and is Listed as County number 31. The county has two major urban centres: Nanyuki t ...

on 4 March 2013. Under the new

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, which was passed in a 2010 referendum, the 2013 general election was to be the first where there would be election of county governors and their deputies for the 47 newly created counties. They were also the first general elections run by the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission(IEBC) which released the official list of candidates.

Gubernatorial election

Prospective candidates

The following are some of the candidates who made public their intentions to run: * Mwangi Kiunjuri - MP for

Laikipia East Constituency Laikipia East Constituency is an electoral constituency in Kenya. It is one of three constituencies in Laikipia County, in the former Rift Valley Province Rift Valley Province ( sw, Mkoa wa Bonde la Ufa) of Kenya, bordering Uganda, was one of Ken ...

and assistant minister for Public Works * Nderitu Mureithi - MP for

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and assistant minister for Industrialisation *

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- a community development specialist * Mburu Kamau - Businessman

References

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