Sportpesa CEO Ronald Karauri has been declared the winner of the Kasarani MP seat.
Sportpesa CEO's bet on himself pays off
Ronald Karauri has won, underscoring Kasarani as a constituency that never re-elected an MP in the last 39 years
Ronald Karauri
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Karauri won the seat after garnering 32,406 votes against John Kamau's (UDA) 30,444 votes and Mercy Gakuya's (Jubilee) 24,790.
His win underscored Kasarani as a constituency that never re-elected an MP in the last 39 years.
Ronald Karauri vying for Kasarani MP in 2022
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Incumbent MP Mercy Gakuya unsuccessfully defended her seat despite having been considered as a leading candidate.
The constituency was once part of Mathare (then called North East Nairobi), which was historically one of the city's largest, and encompassed the enormous Mathare slum as well as areas surrounding the capital; Machakos and Thika.
The last MP who enjoyed a second term was Munyua Waiyaki, who had four uninterrupted terms from 1963.
Outgoing Kasarani MP Mercy Gakuya
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The outgoing MP Gakuya, who ran for office in 2017 on a Jubilee ticket, defeated her predecessor John Njoroge Chege (Independent) and Steven Paul of the ODM by a landslide.
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At the polls, she received 78,698 votes in comparison to Paul's 17,938, while Njoroge came in a distant third with 16,851 votes.
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