2013 Kitui local elections

Kitui Gubernatorial Elections were held in Kitui to elect a Governor and County Assembly on 4 March 2013.^[1] Under the new constitution, which was passed in a 2010 referendum, the 2013 general elections were the first in which Governors and members of the County Assemblies for the newly created counties were elected. They will also be the first general elections run by the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission(IEBC) which has released the official list of candidates.^[2]

Gubernatorial election

Candidate	Running Mate	Coalition	Party	Votes
Kilonzo, Julius Kiema	Mulwa, Kennedy Ngumbau		National Rainbow Coalition	85,723
Kitonga, Philip Nzamba	Mwongela, Benjamin Nymai		National Labour Party	24,574
Malombe, Julius Makau	Malonza, Peninah		Wiper Democratic Movement – Kenya	163,904

Prospective candidates

The following are some of the candidates who have made public their intentions to run:^[3]

• Charity Ngilu - Former Lands Cabinet Secretary
• David Musila - Senator Kitui County
• Julius Makau Malombe - former chairman of the devolved government taskforce and a nephew to former Cabinet minister Nyiva Mwendwa,