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== Last election results == | == Last election results == | ||
=== 2016 | === 2016 General election results=== | ||
{{main| 2016 general election}} | {{main| 2016 general election}} | ||
====President==== | |||
{| class=wikitable style=text-align:right | |||
!Candidate | |||
!Party | |||
!Votes | |||
!% | |||
|- | |||
|align=left|[[Edgar Lungu]]||align=left|[[Patriotic Front (Zambia)|Patriotic Front]]||1,860,877||50.35 | |||
|- | |||
|align=left|[[Hakainde Hichilema]]||align=left|[[United Party for National Development]]||1,760,347||47.63 | |||
|- | |||
|align=left|[[Edith Nawakwi]]||align=left|[[Forum for Democracy and Development]]||24,149||0.65 | |||
|- | |||
|align=left|Andyford Banda||align=left|People's Alliance for Change||15,791||0.43 | |||
|- | |||
|align=left|Wynter Kabimba||align=left|[[Rainbow Party (Zambia)|Rainbow Party]]||9,504||0.26 | |||
|- | |||
|align=left|Saviour Chishimba||align=left|[[United Progressive Party (Zambia)|United Progressive Party]]||9,221||0.25 | |||
|- | |||
|align=left|[[Tilyenji Kaunda]]||align=left|[[United National Independence Party]]||8,928||0.24 | |||
|- | |||
|align=left|[[Peter Sinkamba]]||align=left|Green Party of Zambia||4,515||0.12 | |||
|- | |||
|align=left|Maxwell Mwamba||align=left|Democratic Assembly||2,378||0.06 | |||
|- | |||
|align=left colspan=2|Invalid/blank votes||85,795||– | |||
|- | |||
|align=left colspan=2|'''Total'''||'''6,698,372'''||'''100''' | |||
|- | |||
|align=left colspan=2|Registered voters/turnout||3,781,505||56.45 | |||
|- | |||
|align=left colspan=4|Source: [https://www.elections.org.zm/general_election_2016.php Electoral Commission of Zambia] | |||
|} | |||
====National Assembly==== | |||
{| class=wikitable style=text-align:right | |||
!Party | |||
!Votes | |||
!% | |||
!Seats | |||
!+/– | |||
|- | |||
|align=left|[[Patriotic Front (Zambia)|Patriotic Front]]||1,537,946||42.01||80||+20 | |||
|- | |||
|align=left|[[United Party for National Development]]||1,525,049||41.66||58||+30 | |||
|- | |||
|align=left|[[Movement for Multi-Party Democracy]]||99,356||2.71||3||–52 | |||
|- | |||
|align=left|[[Forum for Democracy and Development]]||79,489||2.17||1||0 | |||
|- | |||
|align=left|[[Rainbow Party (Zambia)|Rainbow Party]]||34,906||0.95||0||New | |||
|- | |||
|align=left|[[National Restoration Party (Zambia)|National Restoration Party]]||10,887||0.30||0||0 | |||
|- | |||
|align=left|[[Alliance for Democracy and Development (Zambia)|Alliance for Democracy and Development]]||8,269||0.23||0||–1 | |||
|- | |||
|align=left|United Democratic Front||7,643||0.21||0||New | |||
|- | |||
|align=left|[[United National Independence Party]]||7,253||0.20||0||0 | |||
|- | |||
|align=left|Golden Progressive Party||1,461||0.04||0||New | |||
|- | |||
|align=left|Radical Revolutionary Party||831||0.02||0||New | |||
|- | |||
|align=left|Green Party of Zambia||407||0.01||0||New | |||
|- | |||
|align=left|United Progressive People||333||0.01||0||New | |||
|- | |||
|align=left|Independents||347,005||9.48||14||+11 | |||
|- | |||
|align=left|Invalid/blank votes||92,044||–||–||– | |||
|- | |||
|align=left|'''Total'''||'''3,752,879'''||'''100'''||'''156'''||'''+6''' | |||
|- | |||
|align=left|Registered voters/turnout||6,698,372||56.03||–||– | |||
|- | |||
|align=left colspan=5|Source: [https://www.elections.org.zm/results/2016_national_assembly_elections Electoral Commission of Zambia], [https://www.daily-mail.co.zm/?p=77536 Daily Mail] | |||
|} | |||
==Referendums== | ==Referendums== | ||
Since independence in 1964 only one national referendum has been held in Zambia. A [[Zambian constitutional referendum, 1969|constitutional referendum]] in 1969 saw 85% of voters approve amendments to the constitution to remove the need for referendums on certain constitutional amendments. | Since independence in 1964 only one national referendum has been held in Zambia. A [[Zambian constitutional referendum, 1969|constitutional referendum]] in 1969 saw 85% of voters approve amendments to the constitution to remove the need for referendums on certain constitutional amendments. | ||
===2016 Referendum results === | |||
{{main|2016 Referendum}} | |||
{| class=wikitable style=text-align:right | |||
!Choice | |||
!Votes | |||
!% | |||
|- | |||
|align=left|For||1,852,559||71.09 | |||
|- | |||
|align=left|Against||753,549||28.91 | |||
|- | |||
|align=left|Invalid/blank votes||739,363||− | |||
|- | |||
|align=left|'''Total'''||'''3,345,471'''||'''100''' | |||
|- | |||
|align=left|Registered voters/turnout||7,528,091||44.44 | |||
|- | |||
|colspan=3 align=left|Source: [https://www.elections.org.zm/results/2016_referendum ECZ] | |||
|} | |||
==See also== | ==See also== | ||
