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38 billion if the 2,135 candidates who ran in 2022 contest again, based on a Sh25 million constituency cap.
For MCAs, the Sh5 million ward cap would produce a possible aggregate of about Sh65 billion if all 12,998 candidates returned.
In 2017, the election cost Sh38 billion, excluding the repeat presidential poll, which consumed about Sh15.
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