Bleak future for multi-party elections in Kenya

Journal of Modern African Studies

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 597-607

  Fox, Roddy ^a  

^a RHODES UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTORAL GEOGRAPHY; ETHNICITY; PARTY POLITICS;

KENYA;

EID: 0030420112     PISSN: 0022278X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s0022278x00055786     Document Type: Article

References (19)

1. The names of tribes and the ethnic groups to which they belong are taken from Republic of Kenya, Kenyan Population Census, 1969, Volume II (Nairobi, 1971), pp. iv-v.
2. S. Forster-Sutton, C. S. Thornley, and M. Hyde-Clarke, Report of the Regional Boundaries Commission (London, 1962), Cmnd. 1899.
3. 52A, 1 : 50,000, Edition 4 (Nairobi, 1991); and Mombasa Parliamentary Constituencies, Sheet B, Miscellaneous - SK68A, 1 : 50,000, Edition 4 (Nairobi, 1991).
4. 52A, 1 : 50,000, Edition 4 (Nairobi, 1991); and Mombasa Parliamentary Constituencies, Sheet B, Miscellaneous - SK68A, 1 : 50,000, Edition 4 (Nairobi, 1991).
5. 52A, 1 : 50,000, Edition 4 (Nairobi, 1991); and Mombasa Parliamentary Constituencies, Sheet B, Miscellaneous - SK68A, 1 : 50,000, Edition 4 (Nairobi, 1991).
6. See R. C. Fox, Ethnic Distributions in Colonial and Post-Colonial Kenya (Pretoria, 1991).
7. Preparatory Review No. 2, Order 1966 of 19 December 1966, Legal Notice No. 344.
8. Kenya Parliamentary Constituencies Review Order 1987 of 11 November 1987, Legal Notice No. 309.
9. Republic of Kenya, op. cit.
10. and Kenya Population Census, 1989, Volume II (Nairobi, 1994).
11. Discussed in Roddy Fox, 'Lesotho's Changing Electoral Geography, 1965-1993', in Roger Southall and Tsoeu Petlane (eds.), Democratisation and Demilitarisation in Lesotho: the general election of 1993 and its aftermath (Pretoria, 1995), pp. 45-57.
12. Radiala Onim, 'Electoral Battlegrounds', in New African (London), 234, March 1987, p. 21.
13. Philip Ochieng, 'More Work for Kenya MPs', in ibid. p. 35.
14. Constitution of Kenya, 1992, ch. 3, section 42 (3).
15. The electoral results shown in Maps 2-4 and Table 2 are from data provided by Kenya's Electoral Commission, published by The Weekly Review (Nairobi), 1992, Nos. 915, 917, and 918.
16. Of these 100 seats, 16 were unopposed, allegedly because of a variety of intimidatory tactics.
17. Compiled in R. C. Fox, Population Atlas of Kenya (Grahamstown, South Africa, 1995).
18. See 'How Kanu Will Rig the 1997 Elections', in Finance (Nairobi), 31 December 1995.
19. The Weekly Review, 1992, 915, p. 6.