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Mwea Constituency

electoral constituency in Kenya

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 7, 2026
Entity authorityQ6944711 ↗
Source-derived summary

Mwea Constituency is an electoral constituency in Kenya. It is one of four constituencies in Kirinyaga County. The constituency was established for the 1988 elections. It is divided into two sub-counties: Mwea East and Mwea West. In the 2022 elections, Mary Maingi was elected MP. She was one of several new women MPs as the total number of women MPs elected increased in 2022. However, she was the only woman elected in this county.

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Locations and wards

There are 8 wards across Mwea constituency and 131,714 registered voters as of 2022.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Mwea Constituency” as electoral constituency in Kenya. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Mwea, Constituency and electoral.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1988, 2022—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1988. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Mwea, Constituency and electoral providing the first useful test.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 7, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6944711. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1988 and 2022.

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This entry incorporates text from “Mwea Constituency” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.