1963 Kenyan general election

1963 Kenyan general election

← 1961 18–26 May 1963 1969 →

House of Representatives

All 129 seats in the House of Representatives 65 seats needed for a majority

Party Leader % Seats +/– KANU Jomo Kenyatta 53.60 83 +64 KADU Ronald Ngala 25.83 33 +22 APP Paul Ngei 7.43 8 New This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.

Senate

All 38 seats in the Senate 20 seats needed for a majority

Party Leader % Seats +/– KANU Jomo Kenyatta 59.18 18 New KADU Ronald Ngala 27.31 16 New APP Paul Ngei 8.46 2 New NPAU – 1 New Independents – 4.73 1 New This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below. Results for the House (left) and Senate (right) Prime Minister before Prime Minister after election Jomo Kenyatta KANU Jomo Kenyatta KANU

General elections were 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.

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

Senate

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

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