Zimbabwe: Election archive
Updated February 2008
2008 Presidential, House of Assembly & Senate Elections
Statement of support for national & international election observation in Zimbabwe
Carter Center & EISA, 23 May 2008.
Post-run-off developments
Memorandum of understanding between Zanu PF and MDC, 21 July 2008, http://newzimbabwe.com/pages/mbeki106.18509.html [opens new window] (accessed 23 July 2008)
Peace negotiations
Post-harmonised election developments
- From the count to the results
- Parallel vote tabulations
- Rising tensions and legal manouevres
- Post-harmonised election violence
- The partial recount
- Internationalisation of the conflict
- Statements by various actors
- Presidential run-off
- Morgan Tsvangirai's letter of withdrawal from the run-off [PDF document]
Election results
- Presidential election results - second round
- Presidential election results - first round
- House of Assembly results
- House of Assembly results by province
- Senate election results
- Women elected in the 2008 elections
- Election observer missions and statements
Election process
- Presidential candidates
- Parliamentary candidates by party
- Women candidates in the elections
- Voter registration
EISA Regional Observer Mission
Election timetable
Presidential second round and by-elections
- Election day: 27 Jun (proclaimed by ZEC on 16 May)
- Postal ballot boxes: Sealed 20 Jun
- Postal ballot applications; Deadline 17h Jun
- Accreditation: Observers and journalists 2-26 Jun
- By-election nomination courts: 30 May; for three House of Assembly seat elections not held on election day (Gwanda South, Redcliff, Pelandaba-Mpopoma).
- National Multi-Party Liaison Committee: Convened 23 May
- Presidential second round: 23 May (counting from announcement of results)
- Presidential second round: 19 Apr (counting from election day)
Harmonised elections
- Chief's senators: Provincial Assemblies of Chiefs meet to elect their senators on 31 Mar
- Election day: 29 Mar 2008.
- Accreditation: Observers and journalists 19 Feb - 29 Mar
- Voter registration: Closed 13 Feb (was 6 Feb); inspection of rolls 14 Feb
Registration drive, using mobile stations, conducted 18 Jun - 17 Aug 2007 - Nomination courts: 15 Feb (was 8 Feb)
- Delimitation: ZEC Report detailing constituencies for House of Assembly and Senate gazetted 1 Feb
Pre-election updates by ZESN:
- "Pre-election Update No. 1: 24 November to 14 December 2007", [www] http://www.zesn.org.zw/newsflash_view.cfm?nfid=12 [opens new window] (accessed Jan 2008).
- "Pre-election Update No. 2: 15 December 2007 - 21 January 2008", [www] http://www.zesn.org.zw/newsflash_view.cfm?nfid=16 [opens new window] (accessed Feb 2008).
- "Pre-election Update No. 3: 22 January to 6 February 2008", [www] http://www.zesn.org.zw/newsflash_view.cfm?nfid=18 [opens new window] (accessed Feb 2008).
- "Pre-election Update No. 4 Nomination Court Update", [www] http://www.zesn.org.zw/newsflash_view.cfm?nfid=19 [opens new window] (accessed Feb 2008).
2005 Elections
Senate 2005
Senate election national results
Senate election provincial results
Results by constituency [PDF document]
Senate reconstitution and composition
CHIRORO, B 2005 Apathy, Fatigue, or Boycott? An Analysis of the 2005 Zimbabwe Senate Elections [PDF document], EISA Occassional Paper No 38.
ZIMBABWE ELECTORAL SUPPORT NETWORK 2005, Preliminary statement for the Senate elections and Gutu North Parliamentary by-election [PDF document]
House of Assembly 2005
National election results
Results by province - percentage of vote
Constituency results - by votes cast
Constituency results - by percentage of vote
EISA Not Observing Zimbabwean Elections
International statements
Observer missions
Controversial aspects
Pre-election analysis and debate
CHIRORO, B 2005, ABSTRACT: Persistent Inequalities: Women and Electoral Politics in the Zimbabwe Elections in 2005.
KAGWAJA, P 2005 When the Locusts Ate: Zimbabwe's March 2005 Elections [PDF document], EISA Occassional Paper No 32.
MBAYA, S 2005, Securing the female electorate extract from "Zimbabwe's Land Politics and the 2005 Elections" IN Journal of African Elections 4(2).
OLALEYE, W 2005 Negotiating the Impasse: Challenges and Prospects for Democratisation in Zimbabwe [PDF document], EISA Research Report No 9.
Zimbabwe Election Updates 2005
2002 Presidential
Election results
Observer missions
International statements on Zimbabwe
O'DONOVAN, M 2003 Zimbabwe's Democracy: quantifying the impact of electoral maladministration [PDF document], EISA Democracy seminar series papers No 5.
Pre-election analysis and debate
2000 House of Assembly
2000 General Elections
National election results
Provincial results
Women in parliament 1995 - 2002
The role of women in the 2000 Zimbabwe election
Observer missions
2000 Delimitation report
VENTER, D 2005, Zimbabwe before and after the June 2000 elections
EISA Zimbabwe Election Updates 2000
2000 Referendum
POTTIE, D 2000 Constitutional Referendum in Zimbabwe IN EISA Zimbabwe Election Update 2000, 1, 5 June, 7-8.
1996 Presidential
1996 Presidential Elections
Presidential results
1995 House of Assembly
1995 General Elections
House of Assembly results
1990 House of Assembly and presidential
1990 General Elections
House of Assembly results
Presidential results
1985 House of Assembly
1985 General Elections
House of Assembly results
