Live RESULTS from #Zimbabwe election

The main opposition claims that voting results were not posted outside 21 percent of the country’s polling stations as the law requires, raising concerns about possible vote-rigging. Opposition leader Nelson Chamisa has said he would lead peaceful protests if the vote is found to be flawed.

Winning MDC Alliance candidates

1. Chalton Hwende – Kuwadzana East
2. Caston Matewu – Marondera Central
3. Settlement Chikwinya – Mbizo
4. James Chidhakwa – Mabvuku /Tafara
5. Job Sikhala – Zengeza West
6. Godfrey Sithole – Chitungwiza North
7. Samuel Banda – Mt Pleasant
8. Tendai Biti – Harare East
9. Joanna Mamombe – Harare West
10. Amos Chibaya – Mkoba 
11. Jacob Nyokanhete – Masvingo Urban
12. Fortune Mguni – Hwange Central
13. Patrick Dube – Gwanda Central
14. Chipinge West
15. Chipinge East
16. Kadoma Central
17. Mutare Central
18. Chinhoyi

Winning Zanu PF candidates

1. William Mutomba – Buhera North
2. Soul Ncube – Matobo South 
3. Mary Mliswa – Hurungwe West
4. Newten Kachepa – Mudzi North 
5. Claudios Maronge – Masvingo South
6. Ezira Ruvai – Masvingo West 
7. Elizabeth Mukunyaidze – Marondera West 
8. Tinoda Machakarika – Wedza South 
9. Chiredzi North
10. Chiredzi West
11. Chiredzi South
12. Gutu South
13. Mhondoro Mubaira
14. Marondera East – Patrick Chidhakwa

Independents

• Temba Mlisa – Norton

Total MPs in Parliament: 210

MDC Alliance	Zanu PF	Independents
18	14	1

 

Police with water cannon are circulating in Zimbabwe’s capital as the country waits for the first official results of Monday’s presidential election.

The main opposition claims that voting results were not posted outside 21 percent of the country’s polling stations as the law requires, raising concerns about possible vote-rigging. Opposition leader Nelson Chamisa has said he would lead peaceful protests if the vote is found to be flawed.

The MDC is preparing a court application to force the election commission to release results from Monday’s national ballot, a senior MDC official said on Tuesday.

Tendai Biti, a former finance minister, said some election results that were supposed to be posted outside voting stations were not available.

The election, the first since the removal of Robert Mugabe last November, is a two-horse race between MDC leader Nelson Chamisa and President Emmerson Mnangagwa. Biti said it was clear Chamisa had won. No official results have been released.

“We have now received results of the polls. Results show that we have won these elections and that the next president of Zimbabwe is Nelson Chamisa,” Biti said.

Earlier in the morning Chamisa tweeted: “Winning resoundingly…We now have results from the majority of the over 10 000 polling stations. We’ve done exceedingly well.

“Awaiting ZEC to perform their constitutional duty to officially announce the people’s election results and we are ready to form the next gvt. #Godisinit”

Turnout at Zimbabwe’s election on Monday, the first since the removal of former president Robert Mugabe, averaged 75 percent, larger than the last vote in 2013.

Winning resoundingly…We now have results from the majority of the over 10 000 polling stations. We’ve done exceedingly well. Awaiting ZEC to perform their constitutional duty to officially announce the people’s election results and we are ready to form the next gvt.#Godisinit

— Nelson Chamisa (@nelsonchamisa) July 31, 2018

3:30 p.m.

Dozens of Zimbabwean opposition supporters have gathered at their headquarters in the capital, celebrating in the belief that they have won the presidential election despite the lack of official results.

Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) chairperson Justice Priscilla Chigumba last night said  “Vote counting has commenced in some areas in terms of provisions of the law. The counting is conducted in the presence of agents, observers and members of the press at polling station level.

“The stakeholders are respectfully reminded that once the processes of counting has commenced they are not allowed to leave the counting centre until the process has been finalised.”

“The Commission would like to thank the Zimbabwean public for exercising their right to vote in peace and would like to urge Zimbabweans to be patient as they wait for the results,” she said.

The election winner faces the task of putting Zimbabwe back on track after 37 years of Mugabe rule tainted by corruption, mismanagement and diplomatic isolation that caused a crisis in a country that once had one of Africa’s most promising economies.

More details to follow……..