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Stakeholders confronted the Electoral Commission of Zambia over the legality of its 24-hour vote-counting suspension, an alleged “dummy voting” exercise on polling day, and competing claims over who was responsible for post-declaration violence in Lusaka, at a press briefing held…

Congratulations to Iris and Chanda Kabwe. Finally you are now both parliamentarians

The Copperbelt Was Not Lost Overnight: We Refused to Listen. It was easier to win the Copperbelt than to explain the scale of the loss we have suffered. This result did not simply happen to the UPND. In many respects, UPND leaders worked hard to produce it. We must therefore resist the temptation to blame […]

UNITED Party for National Development candidate Nawa Kanengu has been elected Mayor of Chililabombwe after polling 16,352 votes in Thursday’s election. Mr. Kanengu takes over from Lucky Sichone after defeating four other candidates. He pledged to work with residents and the Government to address challenges facing the border town. "I will be working with the

ECZ TO ANNOUNCE MORE PRESIDENTIAL RESULTS TODAY The Electoral Commission of Zambia (ECZ) Chief Electoral Officer Brown Kasaro says the Commission will today release two further sets of presidential election results, as verification of constituency submissions continues. Mr Kasaro said the first update will be made at 13:00 hours, with a second announcement scheduled for […]

Jay Jay’s sister Pauline Banda secures landslide victory as MP for Petauke Central on the NRPUP ticket.

DID YOU KNOW? 🇿🇲 Until 1999, the MMD led by Frederick Chiluba had a clean sweep of all the then 19 parliamentary seats in Southern Province. That changed dramatically when the former ruling party lost the strategically important Mazabuka Constituency to the newly formed United Party for National Development (UPND) in a by-election that was […]

KABWE, KAINGU WIN KANTANSHI AND MWANDI SEATS Former DMMU National Coordinator Chanda Kabwe has won the Kantanshi parliamentary seat on the Resolute Party ticket, polling 10,473 votes against incumbent UPND candidate Anthony Mumba, who received 8,391 votes. In Mwandi Constituency, independent candidate Iris Kaingu has been declared the winner after polling 6,595 votes, defeating incumbent […]

UPND'S Rueben Mutolo Phiri, Former Minister of Agriculture has lost the Chipata North Parliamentary Seat! National Reconciliation Party for Unity and Prosperity (NRPUP) Chipata North candidate Jackson Ngoma has been declared duly elected, defeating immediate past Agriculture Minister and former Chipata Central Member of Parliament Reuben Mtolo Phiri.

The Electoral Commission of Zambia has confirmed that Friday’s 24-hour suspension of vote counting will extend the constitutional deadline for declaring Zambia’s presidential result, as the Commission set out a revised schedule for announcing outstanding constituency figures.…