Political Parties and Elections
For other political parties see List of political parties in Zimbabwe. An overview on elections and election results is included in Elections in Zimbabwe.| Party | Candidate | 1st round | 2nd round | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Votes | % | Votes | % | |||
| Zimbabwe African National Union – Patriotic Front | Robert Mugabe | 1,079,730 | 43.2 | 2,150,269 | 85.5 | |
| Movement for Democratic Change – Tsvangirai | Morgan Tsvangirai | 1,195,562 | 47.9 | 233,000 | 9.3 | |
| Mavambo/Kusile/Dawn | Simba Makoni | 207,470 | 8.3 | |||
| Independent | Langton Towungana | 14,503 | 0.6 | |||
| Invalidated | 131,481 | 5.2 | ||||
| Totals | 2,497,265 | 100.0 | 2,514,750 | 100.0 | ||
| Party | Party leader | # of candidates |
Seats | Popular vote | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | Dissolution | Elected | # | % | ||||||
| Movement for Democratic Change - Tsvangirai | Morgan Tsvangirai | 204 | 41 | 27 | 100 | 1,041,176 | 42.88 | |||
| Movement for Democratic Change - Mutambara | Arthur Mutambara | 151 | - | 14 | 10 | 202,259 | 8.39 | |||
| Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front | Robert Mugabe | 219 | 78 | 78 | 99 | 1,110,649 | 45.94 | |||
| United People's Party | Daniel Shumba | 49 | - | - | 0 | 7,331 | 0.30 | |||
| Peace Action is Freedom for All | Abel Ndlovu | 6 | - | - | 0 | 1,545 | 0.06 | |||
| Federal Democratic Union | Paul Siwala | 7 | - | - | 0 | 1,315 | 0.05 | |||
| Zimbabwe Progressive People's Democratic Party | Tafirenyika Mudavanhu | 8 | - | - | 0 | 1,047 | 0.04 | |||
| Zimbabwe African National Union – Ndonga | Wilson Kumbila | 2 | - | - | 0 | 756 | 0.03 | |||
| Zimbabwe Development Party | Kisinoti Mukwazhe | 9 | - | - | 0 | 608 | 0.03 | |||
| Patriotic Union of MaNdebeleland | Leonard Nkala | 7 | - | - | 0 | 523 | 0.02 | |||
| Christian Democratic Party | William Gwata | 2 | - | - | 0 | 233 | 0.01 | |||
| Zimbabwe African People's Union - Federal Party | Sikhumbuzo Dube | 1 | - | - | 0 | 195 | 0.00 | |||
| ZURD | Madechiwe Collias | 1 | - | - | 0 | 112 | 0.00 | |||
| Voice of the People/Vox Populi | Moreprecision Muzadzi | 2 | - | - | 0 | 63 | 0.00 | |||
| Zimbabwe Youth in Alliance | Moses Mutyasira | 1 | - | - | 0 | 7 | 0.00 | |||
| Independents | 104 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 54,254 | 2.25 | ||||
| Presidential appointees | - | 20 | 20 | - | - | - | ||||
| Ex-officio members (Chiefs) | - | 10 | 10 | - | - | - | ||||
| Total | 773 | 150 | 150 | 210 | 2,421,973 | 100% | ||||
| Source: Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (The Herald) | ||||||||||
| Party | # of cand. |
Seats | Popular vote for Elected Seats | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | a | b | Total | Diss. | Elected | a | b | c | Total | # | % | |||
| ZANU-PF | 61 | 43 | 10 | 6 | 59 | 59 | 30 | 12 | 5 | 10 | 57 | 1,101,931 | 45.79 | |
| MDC-T | 61 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 24 | - | - | - | 24 | 1,035,824 | 43.04 | |
| MDC-M | 36 | 7 | - | - | 7 | 6 | 6 | 6 | - | - | 12 | 206,807 | 8.59 | |
| UPP | 11 | - | - | - | - | - | 0 | - | - | - | 0 | 16,875 | 0.70 | |
| ZANU–Ndonga | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 0 | - | - | - | 0 | 2,196 | 0.09 | |
| ZAPU-FP | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 0 | - | - | - | 0 | 734 | 0.03 | |
| PUMA | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | 0 | - | - | - | 0 | 320 | 0.01 | |
| FDU | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 0 | - | - | - | 0 | 303 | 0.01 | |
| ZPPDP | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | 0 | - | - | - | 0 | 124 | 0.00 | |
| Independents | 20 | - | - | - | - | - | 0 | - | - | - | 0 | 41,364 | 1.72 | |
| Vacant | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| Total | 196 | 50 | 10 | 6 | 66 | 66 | 60 | 18 | 5 | 10 | 93 | 2,406,478 | 100% | |
| Sources: Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zimbabwe Metro), Parliament of Zimbabwe Hansard, Zimbabwe Herald, allafrica.com, sokwanele.com, talkzimbabwe.com, and kubatana.net | ||||||||||||||
In June, 2004 the politburo announced that the March 2005 general elections would conform to election guidelines drawn up by the 14 member Southern Africa Development Community. The Registrar-General will not oversee elections, which will instead be overseen by a five member electoral commission whose chairman would be appointed by Mugabe. The 2005 parliamentary elections were held on March 31. While the African Union reported no major irregularities, opposition figures such as Archbishop Pius Ncube have made charges of vote rigging. Elections were held on a single day, not two or three as before. Translucent ballot boxes were used to prevent "stuffing," and counting was done at polling centers rather than at a single, central location. At the time of the election it was speculated that factionalism between different Shona-speaking clans had increased.
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