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Numbers that show the huge task for IEBC: Nairobi is mother of them all

By Dominic Kimani | Jul. 31, 2022

**A voter casts her ballot at Barmukwen Mobile Polling station in Chegilet, Kerio Valley in Elgeyo Marakwet County.** [Christopher Kipsang, Standard]

Nairobi county will have the highest number of polling stations in next week's General Election, because it accounts for the country's largest number of voters.

The 2.4 million electorates will vote in some 3,643 polling stations spread across the county's 17 constituencies. The county got the highest additional polling stations - 265 - compared to all the other 46 counties. The city also registered the largest increase in number of voters.

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