Communist Party of Kenya

The Communist Party of Kenya (CPK) is a political party in Kenya.

Communist Party of Kenya
ChairmanMwandawiro Mghanga[1]
Secretary-GeneralBenedict Wachira[1]
Founded1992 (1992)
HeadquartersNairobi
IdeologyCommunism
Marxism–Leninism[2]
Political positionFar-left
International affiliationICOR
Website
www.communistpartyofkenya.org

History

The party was established in 1992 as the Social Democratic Party (SDP) by Johnstone Makau.[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
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
County 7,684 0.06
2017 Constituency Did not Participate
0 / 340
County

Senate elections
Election Votes % Seats +/– Position
2013 24,650 0.20%
0 / 67
 25th
2017 Did not Participate
0 / 67

References
  1. "The Central Committee of the Social Democratic Party of Kenya". sdpkenya.org. Archived from the original on 27 November 2013. Retrieved 2 February 2014.
  2. "ABOUT THE SOCIAL DEMOCRATIC PARTY OF KENYA (SDP)". sdpkenya.org. Archived from the original on 27 November 2013. Retrieved 2 February 2014.
  3. Robert M. Maxon, Thomas P. Ofcansky (2014) Historical Dictionary of Kenya, Rowman & Littlefield, pp315–316
  4. https://www.standardmedia.co.ke/article/2001316285/social-democratic-party-of-kenya-changes-name-to-communist-party-of-kenya
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