Gatundu South is an

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Kiambu County Kiambu County is a county in the former Central Province of Kenya. Its capital is Kiambu and its largest town is Thika. Kiambu County is the second most populous after Nairobi County. Kiambu County borders Nairobi and Kajiado Counties to the So ...

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and the seat of the District Officer in Gatundu Town. It is one of twelve constituencies in

. The constituency has four wards, Kiamwangi, Kiganjo, Ndarugo and Ng'enda all of them are within Kiambu County council. The constituency was established before the 1997

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. Previously it was part of the larger Gatundu Constituency which was split into Gatundu South Constituency and

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it is ranked 182 out of 210 Constituencies in Kenya in size and 165 out of 210 in population size. Two of Kenya's Presidents are from Gatundu South Constituency: Mzee

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(Kenya's founding father and first President of The Republic of Kenya 1964-1978) and his son President

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, 2013–Present. The current Gatundu South MP is Gabriel (GG) Kagombe who suscceed

Moses Kuria Moses Kiarie Kuria is a Kenyan politician and the Cabinet Secretary(CS) for Trade Investment and Industry having been appointed by President William Ruto, and successfully vetted by the 13th Parliament of Kenya. He was sworn in on 27th October ...

in the 2022 Kenya general elections.

Theta Dam

Theta Dam is in Gatundu South it's located inside Kinale Forest, its being constructed across Theta River in Gatundu South constituency. The project includes construction of a 17 meter high compacted earth fill dam, Construction of a reinforced concrete spillway and Laying of a 3.5 km long 500mm diameter steel pipeline up to the Mundoro forest edge. On completion, Theta dam reservoir will have a storage capacity of 2 million cubic meters (2 Billion liters). This will enable production of 15,000 m3/day of water that will augment both the Ndarugu and Thiririka water projects reliability. This will improve water supply to the upper parts of Gatundu such as Gachika, Kiamuoria, Kiganjo, Gatitu of greater Kiganjo location and upper parts of greater Ndarugu locations.

Members of Parliament

Population Data

Area : (Ranked 182 of 210 Constituencies) Population : 107,049 (Ranked 165 of 210 Constituencies) Population Density : (Ranked 40 of 210 Constituencies) Male : 51,656 Female : 55,393 Gender Index (women to men) : 1.08 (Ranked 53 of 210 Constituencies) Households : 28,037 Average Household size : 3.82 (Ranked 167 of 210 Constituencies) Registered Voters : 54,740 Proportion of Population Registered to Vote : 0.48 (Ranked 19 of 210 Constituencies) Proportion of Youth Voters : 0.42 (Ranked 162 of 210 Constituencies)

Locations and wards

References

External links

Map of the constituency
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