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