The Herald (Zimbabwe)

Zanu-PF wins 145 seats

- Farirai Machivenyi­ka and Fidelis Munyoro

ZANU-PF won 145 of the 210 seats in the National Assembly in the just-ended harmonised elections against MDC-Alliance’s 63.

This was after the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) announced results for three remaining seats in Harare Metropolit­an Province yesterday morning.

ZANU-PF won one of the three seats, taking its total to 145 seats from 144 earlier, while MDC-Alliance’s tally rose from 61 to 63.

The remaining two seats were won by the National Patriotic Front’s Masango “Blackman” Matambanad­zo (Kwekwe Central) and independen­t candidate Mr Temba Mliswa (Norton).

In Harare, MDC-Alliance won 28 seats against ZANUPF’s one seat, while in Manicaland Province ZANU-PF won 19 out of the 26 constituen­cies, while the remaining seven seats went to MDC-Alliance.

In Mashonalan­d Central Province, the ruling party swept all the 18 seats while in Mashonalan­d East Province, it took 21 seats out of the 23 available with the MDC Alliance winning the other two seats.

In Mashonalan­d West Province, ZANU-PF won 18 seats with the MDC Alliance getting three while the other one went to Mr Mliswa.

In Masvingo, ZANU-PF won 25 constituen­cies with the MDC-Alliance winning one seat.

In Matabelela­nd South Province, the ruling party won 12 seats with the other seat going to the MDC-Alliance.

In Matabelela­nd North Province, ZANU-PF won eight seats out of 13 with the other five going to the MDC Alliance.

In the Midlands Province, ZANU-PF took 22 seats with the MDC-Alliance winning five, while NPF won one seat.

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