Homa Bay County Constituencies and wards

Homa Bay County is a county in the former Nyanza Province of Kenya. Its capital and largest town is Homa Bay. The county has a population of 1,131,950 (2019 census) and an area of 3,154.7 km². Lake Victoria is a major source of livelihood for Homa Bay County. Homa Bay County Constituencies and wards

Demographics

Homa Bay county has a total population of 1,131,950 persons, of which 539,560 are males, 592,367 females and 23 intersex persons. It has 262, 036 house holds with an average of 4.3 people per household. The county has a population density of 359 people per square kilometre.^[2]

Sub-County	Population
Homa Bay	117,439
Ndhiwa	218,136
Rachuonyo North	178,686
Rachuonyo East	121,822
Rachuonyo South	130,814
Rangwe	117,732
Suba North	124,938
Suba South	124,938
Total	1,131,950

Homa Bay County Constituencies and wards

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Administrative and political units

Administrative Units

The county has been subdivided into 8 sub-counties with 40 county assembly wards.^[4] There are a total of 19 divisions, with 116 locations and 226 sub-locations.^[5]

Electoral constituencies

The county has eight electoral constituencies:

Political leadership

Cyprian Otieno Awiti is the governor and serving his last term in office after being elected in 2013 and 2017 general elections and currently deputised by Hamiliton Onyango Orata.^[6] Moses Otieno Kajwang’ is the senator and was elected in 2015 in a by election due to the death of brother Gerald Otieno Kajwang.^[7] He won also his in 2017 elections. Gladys Atieno Nyasuna Wanga is second women representative to hold office after being elected in 2017.^[8]^[9]

Health

There are a total of 206 health facilities across the county of which 144 are public and 62 are private.^[10]

Public	Number
Level 5	1
Level 4	11
Level 3	31
Level 2	101
Private
Hospitals (Mission/NGO)	3
Health centres	36
Dispensaries	23
Total	206

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Education

The county has 1451 ECD centres of which are 991 public and 460 private. There are 1089 primary schools, 312 secondary schools, 50 youth polytechnic, 2 technical training institutions, 2 university colleges.

Category	Public	Private	Total
ECD Centres	991	460	1451
Primary schools	868	221	1089
Secondary schools	294	18	312
Youth Polythecnic	50	0	50
Technical Training Institutions	2		2
Universities	2		2

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Transport and communication

The county is covered by road network of 3225 km of which i1840 is covered by earth surface, 1240 km is gravel and 184 km is covered by bitumen.^[14] There are 13 postal services with 3,300 installed letter boxes, 1,605 rented letter boxes 1,695 vacant letter boxes.^[3]

Trade and commerce

The county grows a variety agricultural crops based on the ecological zones found the county. Coffee, sugarcane, maize, beans, tobacco, dairy and fish farming in Rakuonyo subcounty, maize, millet, pineapples, sorghum, sunflower and tomatoes are grown in Gwasi Hills of Suba, millet, green grams, tobacco, sugarcane, pineapples, sisal are grown in Ndhiwa, Homa Bay town and Rangwe. Cotton was grown in Rachuonyo and central Mbita before the collapse of the cotton industry. Efforts are, however, underway to revive cotton farming across the county. Some of the animals kept in the county include cattle dairy, cattle beef, sheep, hair goats, dairy goats, meat pigs, rabbit and poultry.

Services and urbanisation

Source: USAid Kenya

Villages and settlements

VILLAGES INCLUDE: KAUMA; KANYIPIR; KA’KDHIMU; KA’KWAJWOK; KANJIRA; KANYALUO.

Homa Bay County Constituencies and wards

IEBC Homabay County Registered Voters (Constituency, Wards)

Homabay County has 476,875 registered voters and 1,062 polling stations. It also has 8 constituencies. Below are registered voters per constituency and ward.