Changamwe Constituency

Changamwe Constituency is an electoral constituency in Mombasa County, Kenya. It used to be one of the four constituencies in Mombasa district. With the promulgation of the new constitution in August 2010, it saw the creation of two more constituencies in Mombasa County. These were Jomvu and Nyali Constituencies which were curved out from Changamwe and Kisauni Constituencies, respectively. This made a total of six constituencies in 2012.

Before the creation of the Jomvu constituency from Changamwe, the constituency used to have eight wards electing Councillors for the Mombasa municipal council. It had a population of 131,882 people (2019 census).

Promulgation of New Constitution

With the promulgation of the new constitution in August 2010, the districts were renamed to Counties thus bringing a total of 47 counties in the country and the wards renamed to county assembly wards. This also saw the remapping of Changamwe Constituency boundary by the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission - IEBC as mandated by the New Constitution.

Changamwe Constituency has five county assembly wards namely: Airport; Chaani; Kipevu; Miritini and Port Reitz ^[1]

High Court Ruling

Following the petitions made by the Changamwe constituents against the manner in which IEBC handled the delimitation of the constituency, the High Court ruled in favor of the people on 9 July 2012. In the ruling carried out by the 5 High court sitting judges, they ordered IEBC to rename Magongo ward as Changamwe ward and move it to Changamwe Constituency; at the same time the IEBC was ordered to move Miritini ward to Jomvu Constituency.

Changamwe now has the following county assembly wards: Changamwe ward, Chaani ward, Airport ward, Kipevu ward and Port Reitz ward.

Historical Perspective

Members of Parliament

Elections	MP [2]	Party	Notes
1969	David M. Kioko	KANU	One-party system
1974	Ferdinard Mwaro	KANU	One-party system
1979	David M. Kioko	KANU	One-party system
1983	Joseph Kennedy Kiliku	KANU	One-party system
1988	Joseph Kennedy Kiliku	KANU	One-party system
1992	Joseph Kennedy Kiliku	DP
1997	Ramadhan Seif Kajembe	KANU
2002	Ramadhan Seif Kajembe	NARC
2007	Ramadhan Seif Kajembe	ODM
2013	Omar Mwinyi	ODM
2017	Omar Mwinyi	ODM
2022	Omar Mwinyi	ODM

Locations and wards

Locations
Location	Population*
Changamwe	11,346
Kipevu	44,720
Mikindani	32,485
Miritini	31,485
Port Reitz	54,084
Tudor	27,225
Total	x
1999 census.[3][4]

Wards
Ward	Registered Voters
Changamwe	15,887
Jomvu Kuu	8,457
Kipevu	11,920
Mikindani	11,718
Miritini	7,903
Port Reitz	14,980
Tudor Estate	7,166
Tudor Four	9,228
Total	87,259
*September 2005.[5]