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Trans Mara District was an administrative district in the former Rift Valley Province of Kenya.Its capital town was Kilgoris.The district had a population of 274,532 (2019 census) and an area of 2,846 km² .
Kilgoris Constituency is an electoral constituency in Narok County, Kenya.It is one of six constituencies in the county. It used to be the only constituency in the former Trans Mara District.
The town is located about 60 km west of the game reserve Masai Mara National Reserve, known for its spectacular annual migration of wildebeest.There is a murram road from the town through the neighbouring town of Lolgorien to Mara, another to Enoosaen in the West, and another to Kirindoni through the famous Oloololo gate side of the park.
Following a High Court ruling in September 2009, there were 46 legal districts in Kenya, [7] excluding Nairobi which constituted a 47th district. Following the Kenyan general election, 2013, these districts and Nairobi now constitute the 47 counties which will be the basis for rolling out devolution as set out in the 2010 Constitution of Kenya (district headquarters are in parentheses):
The districts of Kenya were divided into 262 divisions (matarafa).Divisions of Kenya were further subdivided into locations.Today's counties of Kenya are based on the merging of some of the districts on this list and since the divisions are one level under the districts they are now the sub-counties.
Narok County [3] is a county in southwestern Kenya with an estimated population of 1,157,873 according to 2019 Census. The dominant ethnic group is the Maasai.Its capital and largest town is Narok, with the only other major urban centre being Kilgoris. [4]
The common agricultural produce from this region include sugarcane and tobacco (the two are the leading cash crops of this region) maize, beans, groundnuts, and arrow root. The area serves as a major sugarcane catchment area for Sony Sugar Company Limited, Sukari Industries and Transmara Sugar Company.
The constituencies of Kenya are used to elect members of the National Assembly, the lower chamber of the Kenyan Parliament.In accordance with Article 89 of the 2010 Constitution of Kenya, there are 290 constituencies, based on a formula where these constituencies were to be delineated based on population numbers.