2018 Zimbabwean general election

2018 Zimbabwean general election

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Presidential election
Registered	5,695,706 ( 3.04%)
Turnout	85.10% ( 25.86pp)
Candidate Emmerson Mnangagwa Nelson Chamisa Party ZANU–PF MDC Alliance Popular vote 2,456,010 2,151,927 Percentage 51.44% 45.07%
President before election Emmerson Mnangagwa ZANU–PF Elected President Emmerson Mnangagwa ZANU–PF
National Assembly
All 270 seats in the National Assembly 136 seats needed for a majority
Party Leader Vote % Seats +/– ZANU–PF Emmerson Mnangagwa 52.35 179 −17 MDC Alliance Nelson Chamisa 34.72 88 +16 MDC-T (Khupe) Thokozani Khuphe 3.03 1 New NPF Eunice Sandi Moyo 1.04 1 New Independents Temba Mliswa 5.05 1 −1 This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
Senate
60 of the 80 seats in the Senate 41 seats needed for a majority
Party Leader Seats +/– ZANU–PF Emmerson Mnangagwa 34 −3 MDC Alliance Nelson Chamisa 25 +2 MDC-T (Khupe) Thokozani Khupe 1 New This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
Maps
Mnangagwa:   40-50%   50-60%   60-70%   70-80% Chamisa   40-50%   60-70%   70-80% Presidential election results by province House of Assembly election results by constituency Senate election results by province

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General elections were held in Zimbabwe on 30 July 2018 to elect the President and members of both houses of Parliament.^[1][2] Held eight months after the 2017 coup d'état, the election was the first since independence in which former President Robert Mugabe was not a candidate.

ZANU–PF, the country's ruling party, went into the election with majorities in both the National Assembly and the Senate. The main opposition, the Movement for Democratic Change – Tsvangirai, contested the election as part of the MDC Alliance, a coalition that included the MDC–T and six smaller parties. The election gave ZANU–PF control of both houses in the 9th Parliament of Zimbabwe, though with reduced majorities in each. The MDC Alliance gained seats in both houses, closely corresponding to ZANU–PF's losses.

In the presidential election Emmerson Mnangagwa, who became president as a result of the 2017 coup ran for election as the ZANU–PF candidate. Morgan Tsvangirai, the MDC–T leader who was expected to run against him, died in February 2018 and Nelson Chamisa, the new party leader, replaced him as the MDC Alliance candidate. The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission announced Mnangagwa as the winner with 50.8% of the vote and gave Chamisa's 44.3%, giving Mnangagwa the majority needed to avoid a runoff. The announced results were disputed by MDC alliance and critiqued internationally.^[3] Mnangagwa won six of the country's ten provinces, while Chamisa won four, including the two metropolitan provinces, Harare and Bulawayo. It was the closest since 2008 that an opposition party had come to breaking ZANU–PF's 38-year hold on power.