🏢 RUNNING FOR MP IN 2027? WIN IT WARD BY WARD
An MP seat is won ward by ward. Using Lurambi, here is what the campaign has to run and what an MP candidate sees every morning in UshindiOS.
By UshindiOS · · 4 min read
Platform Guides | 24 October 2026 | UshindiOS
An MP seat is small enough to know personally and big enough to lose track of. Lurambi in Kakamega had 89,345 registered voters in 2022, in 6 wards, 97 polling centres and 175 polling stations. The winner took 32,309 votes, 64.0% of them, and won by 22,967. 38,558 registered voters did not vote.
Two of Lurambi's six wards cast half of all its votes. An MP campaign is won ward by ward, by knowing which wards are organised and which are not. This guide shows what that takes and what you see every morning in UshindiOS.
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1. The seat in numbers: Lurambi
2022 record | Lurambi |
|---|---|
Registered voters (2022) | 89,345 |
Votes cast | 50,787 (56.8% turnout) |
Registered voters who did not vote | 38,558 |
2022 winning margin | 22,967 votes |
Wards / polling centres / stations | 6 / 97 / 175 |
Votes to win in 2027 if turnout and the winning share repeat | about 32,454 |
Source: IEBC 2022 results as held by UshindiOS. These describe 2022; they are not a forecast. Figures for your own seat are on its page under Elections.
2. What an MP campaign has to run
UshindiOS builds a campaign plan from the seat's real numbers: one coordinator per area, a captain for every polling centre, agents for every polling stream, the vehicles and the tally centres. For Lurambi the plan comes to:
In the plan | For Lurambi |
|---|---|
Polling agents (main, relief and tally) | 265 |
Mobilisers | 179 |
Polling centre captains | 97 |
Supervisors | 9 |
Coordinators (constituency and ward) | 7 |
Field team in total | 557 people |
Planning budget (lean plan) | KES 7.3M (KES 4.5M) |
Your Campaign Manager confirms the plan in a few steps and UshindiOS applies it: the team positions are created area by area, a budget is drafted from it for you to approve, and an activity calendar is laid out. You do not start from a blank page.
3. Your morning, in thirty seconds
Every morning the candidate opens one page: My Campaign. It answers four questions in order: where do I stand, can I win, what changed, and what should I do next?
Read the briefing opens the same picture in plain sentences: how many wards need action and which ones, what the field team did this week, and what is waiting for you.
4. Decisions only you can make
A candidate should not be chasing paperwork, and should not be surprised by it either. When your team asks to spend money or to send resources, the request comes to Needs your attention with the amount, who raised it, the area and how long it has waited. You approve or reject it there. Missions that have run past their end date and polling stations marked not ready appear in the same place.
The campaign budget works the same way: your Campaign Manager prepares it, and only you approve it or send it back with what should change. Messages written in your voice are approved by you before they go out.
5. Every ward at a glance
One row per ward, one colour per state. Red needs action, with the reason (no ward coordinator, stations not ready, a mission overdue); amber needs watching; green is in place. You see in seconds where the campaign is organised and where it is not, without calling anyone.
6. Know every ward, and every station
An MP's brief is tactical. For each of your wards it shows the ward coordinator, how many of its polling centres have a captain, how many station plans are not ready, this week's field work and any overdue mission.
Open Constituency Command for the full picture in five steps: your planning targets, what to do next, the wards, the polling stations and operations. Tap a ward to drill down to its polling centres, then to a single station, its agent and its readiness.
7. Start your campaign
Free to set up. Create your campaign workspace, choose your seat and invite your Campaign Manager.
A 14-day free trial. Start it when you are ready. Nothing is charged until you decide to licence the platform.
One licence for the seat. Paid once for the seat you are contesting, for the whole campaign. See Pricing.
Your data stays yours. Each campaign works in its own workspace; nobody else's team sees it.
Not sure yet whether the seat is winnable? Start with the Can I Win? Report and Where Your Votes Are for your seat under Elections.
The screens in this guide come from the UshindiOS demo campaign, filled with synthetic sample data: the names, teams, requests and activity are not real. The seat figures are the IEBC 2022 results as held by UshindiOS.