Electoral Reforms

Electoral laws

The statutes that govern how Kenya votes, and the regulations made under them — every one linked to Kenya Law's own text.

Kenya Law is the authority for enacted law, and these 33 instruments are its rows, not ours — we neither write nor amend them. They are scoped by the same keyword list the Bills tab uses, so "electoral" means one thing across this section. The Constituencies Development Fund Acts match that list on the word "constituencies" and are deliberately excluded: NG-CDF is constituency public finance, not electoral law.

  • 6principal Acts
  • 27legal notices
  • 33with an official source link
  • 2966instruments in the whole corpus

33 of 33 instruments shown.

Principal Acts

The statutes themselves, as enacted by Parliament.

Principal Acts: electoral instruments held by Kenya Law
Instrument Number Year Assented
Election Offences Act Cap. 66 2016 13 Sep 2016
Election Campaign Financing Act Cap. 7A 2013 24 Dec 2013
Publication of Electoral Opinion Polls Act Cap. 7B 2012 15 Jun 2012
Elections Act Cap. 7 2011 27 Aug 2011
Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission Act Cap. 7C 2011 5 Jul 2011
Political Parties Act Cap. 7D 2011 27 Aug 2011

Regulations, rules and orders made under those Acts and gazetted as legal notices.

Subsidiary legislation: electoral instruments held by Kenya Law
Instrument Number Year In force from
The Privileges and Immunities (Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance International) Order, 2025 Legal Notice 150 of 2025 2025 not recorded
The Supplies Practitioners Management (Council Election) Regulations Legal Notice 94 of 2022 2022 not recorded
The National Youth Council (Election of Certain Council Members) Regulations Legal Notice 183 of 2021 2021 not recorded
The Political Parties (Membership) Regulations. Legal Notice 260 of 2021 2021 not recorded
The Political Parties (Funding) Regulations Legal Notice 143 of 2019 2019 not recorded
The Political Parties (Registration) Regulations Legal Notice 141 of 2019 2019 not recorded
The Court of Appeal (Election Petition) Rules Legal Notice 114 of 2017 2017 not recorded
The Elections (Parliamentary and County Elections) Petitions Rules Legal Notice 116 of 2017 2017 not recorded
The Elections (Party Primaries and Party Lists) Regulations Legal Notice 69 of 2017 2017 not recorded
The Elections (Technology) Regulations Legal Notice 68 of 2017 2017 not recorded
The Elections (Voter Education) Regulations Legal Notice 70 of 2017 2017 not recorded
The Political Parties Disputes Tribunal (Procedure) Regulations Legal Notice 67 of 2017 2017 not recorded
The Political Parties (Staff Mortgage and Car Loan Scheme) Regulations Legal Notice 294 of 2017 2017 not recorded
The Supreme Court (Presidential Election Petition) Rules Legal Notice 113 of 2017 2017 not recorded
The Independent Electoral Boundaries Commission (Staff Car Loan Scheme) Regulations Legal Notice 159 of 2016 2016 not recorded
The Independent Electoral Boundaries Commission (Staff Mortgage Scheme) Regulations Legal Notice 160 of 2016 2016 not recorded
The Human Resource Management Professionals (Election to the Council) Regulations Legal Notice 114 of 2015 2015 not recorded
The Medical Laboratory Technicians and Technologists (Election) Regulations Legal Notice 10 of 2015 2015 not recorded
The Trade Unions Elections (Election Petition) Rules Legal Notice 64 of 2014 2014 not recorded
The Elections (General) Regulations Legal Notice 128 of 2012 2012 not recorded
The Elections (Registration of Voters) Regulations Legal Notice 126 of 2012 2012 not recorded
The Independent Electoral Boundaries Commission (Fund) Regulations Legal Notice 74 of 2012 2012 not recorded
The National Assembly Constituencies and County Assembly Wards Order Legal Notice 14 of 2012 2012 not recorded
The Nurses (Nominations and Elections to the Council) Regulations Legal Notice 41 of 2012 2012 not recorded
The Treaty for the Establishment of the East African Community (Election of Members of the Assembly) Rules Legal Notice 31 of 2012 2012 not recorded
The Medical Practitioners and Dentists (Election of Members of the Board) Rules Legal Notice 18 of 1978 1978 not recorded
The Dairy Industry (Election of Delegates) Regulations Legal Notice 511 of 1959 1959 not recorded

A legal notice is made and gazetted, not assented, so the blank in that column on the subsidiary table is correct rather than missing — 6 of the 6 principal Acts carry an assent date, and commencement is what a legal notice records. Every row links to Kenya Law's own text; where a consolidated revision exists, that is the text Kenya Law serves.