Communist Party of Kenya

Communist Party of Kenya

Chairperson	Mwandawiro Mghanga^[1]
Deputy Chairperson	Booker Ngesa^[1]
Secretary General	Benedict Wachira^[1]
Founded	1992 (1992)
Headquarters	Nairobi
Ideology	Communism Marxism–Leninism
Political position	Far-left
International affiliation	ICOR
Website
www.communistpartyofkenya.org
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The Communist Party of Kenya (CPK) is a registered political party in Kenya.^[2]

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The party was established in 1992 as the Social Democratic Party (SDP) by .^[3] The party did not nominate a presidential candidate in the December 1992 general elections, and received only 177 votes in the National Assembly elections.

Charity Ngilu joined the party before the 1997 elections, and was selected as the party's presidential candidate. She finished fifth in a field of 15 candidates with 7.9% of the vote. The party also won 15 seats in the National Assembly. Ngilu left the party after the elections, and in 2001 was succeeded as party chairman by James Orengo.^[3] He stood as the party's presidential candidate in the 2002 elections, but received just 0.4% of the vote; the party also lost all 15 seats in the National Assembly. Its vote share was reduced to 0.4% in the 2007 general elections, in which it fielded 24 candidates. It also failed to win seats in the 2013 elections, receiving only 0.15% of the vote with seven candidates. In 2019, the party changed to its present name.^[4]

Electoral history[]

Presidential elections[]

Election	Party candidate	Votes	%	Result
1992	Did not participate
1997	Charity Ngilu	488,600	7.89%	Lost N
2002	James Orengo	24,524	0.4%	Lost N
2007	Did not participate
2013
Aug. 2017
Oct. 2017

National Assembly elections[]

Election	Votes		%	Seats	+/–	Position
1992	177		0.0%	0 / 188		9th
1997				15 / 188	15	5th
2002				0 / 210	15
2007	39,871		0.41%	0 / 210		22th
2013	Constituency	18,284	0.15	0 / 349		39th
2013	County	7,684	0.06	0 / 349		39th
2017	Constituency	Did not participate		0 / 340		N/A
2017	County	Did not participate		0 / 340		N/A

Senate elections[]

Election	Votes	%	Seats	+/–	Position
2013	24,650	0.20%	0 / 67		25th
2017	Did not participate		0 / 67		N/A

References[]

^ Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c "CPK Central Committee 2019". www.communistpartyofkenya.org. Communist Party of Kenya. Retrieved 6 May 2021.
^ "ABOUT CPK". www.communistpartyofkenya.org. Communist Party of Kenya. Retrieved 6 May 2021.
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b Robert M. Maxon, Thomas P. Ofcansky (2014) Historical Dictionary of Kenya, Rowman & Littlefield, pp. 315–316
^ "Social Democratic Party of Kenya changes name to Communist Party of Kenya".

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