Mozambique: 2009 Provincial Assemblies results

Updated January 2010

Each of the 10 provinces of Mozambique has an elected Provincial Assembly (Law no 10/2007). Proportional representation is used to allocate seats in the Provincial Assemblies, with each district in a province acting as an electoral constituency and each constituency returning a number of members in proportion to its share of the population of the province concerned.

The first election was provincial Assemblies was held on 28 October 2009. The results were confirmed by the Constitutional Council on 27 December 2009.

Acronyms and abbreviation

FRELIMO Frente de Libertação de Moçambique
RENAMO Resistência Nacional Moçambicana
MDM Movimento Democrático de Moçambique
PDD Partido para Paz, Democracia e Desenvolvimento
nc party did not contest seats in the province

Province	Number of seats
Province	FRELIMO	RENAMO	MDM	PDD	Total
Niassa	66	2	2	nc	70
Cabo Delgado	73	8	nc	nc	81
Nampula	77	12	2	nc	91
Zambézia	57	31	0	2	90
Tete	75	5	nc	nc	80
Manica	61	19	nc	nc	80
Sofala	59	1	20	nc	80
Inhambane	80	0	0	nc	80
Gaza	80	nc	nc	nc	80
Maputo	75	5	nc	nc	80
Total	703	83	24	2	812
% seats	86.58	10.22	2.96	0.25	100.01

Table source

CNE 2009 "Deliberação no 75/2009, de 10 de Novembro: Atinente à aprovação dos editais e actas do apuramento geral dos resultados das eleições gerais - presidenciais e legislativas - e das assembleias provinciais de 28 de Outubro de 2009", 20-26, [www] http://www.stae.org.mz/modules/download_gallery/dlc.php?file=54 [MS Word document] (accessed 17 Nov 2009)

Reference

Law no 10/2007 of 18 June (governs election of Provincial Assemblies) is a new piece of legislation.
For Portuguese see: Lei no 10/2007, [www] http://aceproject.org/ero-en/regions/africa/MZ/mocambique-lei-n-10-2007-in-portuguese/at_download/file [PDF document, opens new window] (accessed 9 Mar 2010).