{"iso":"MW","name":"Malawi","flag":"\ud83c\uddf2\ud83c\uddfc","vote":"Presidential vote \u00b7 baseline forecast","model":"baseline","updated":"2025-09-16","source":"2025 election result, official count","credit":"No regular published national polling. Shares are the first round presidential vote at the general election of 16 September 2025, official results as declared by the Malawi Electoral Commission. Parliamentary seats are mostly constituency races with many independents, so no comparable national party vote is published. Candidates below one percent are not shown.","shares":{"DPP":56.8,"MCP":33.0,"UTM":4.0,"UDF":1.9,"PP":1.6},"polls":[],"parties":{"DPP":{"name":"Democratic Progressive Party","color":"#007EC8"},"MCP":{"name":"Malawi Congress Party","color":"#d92326"},"UTM":{"name":"United Transformation Movement","color":"#A11D23"},"UDF":{"name":"United Democratic Front","color":"#F8DA00"},"PP":{"name":"People's Party","color":"#FF6400"}},"primer":{"system":"Presidential republic","head_of_state":"President Peter Mutharika","legislature":"National Assembly, unicameral, 229 members serving five-year terms.","electoral_system":"Members are elected by simple majority voting in single-member constituencies.","government_now":"Mutharika of the Democratic Progressive Party returned to the presidency after winning the 16 September 2025 election with 57 percent of the vote.","context":"The 2025 election saw former president Mutharika defeat incumbent Lazarus Chakwera of the Malawi Congress Party, who took 33 percent. A new Speaker, Sameer Suleman, took office in October 2025.","sources":"Cross-checked against the English-language MediaWiki encyclopedic record via its public API, 2 July 2026."},"parties_info":{"DPP":["Democratic Progressive Party","","Centre-right party founded by Bingu wa Mutharika; led by Peter Mutharika, who won the 2025 election and returned to the presidency; governing party (77 seats)."],"MCP":["Malawi Congress Party","","Malawi's oldest party and former sole ruling party under Hastings Banda; led by Lazarus Chakwera, governed 2020-2025, now the main opposition (53 seats)."],"UTM":["United Transformation Movement","","Reformist party founded by the late vice-president Saulos Chilima; 8 seats."],"UDF":["United Democratic Front","","Once-dominant party of former president Bakili Muluzi, now a minor player; 4 seats."],"PP":["People's Party","","Centre-left party of former president Joyce Banda; 3 seats."]},"seats_now":{"chamber":"National Assembly","as_of":"2025 election","total":229,"seats":{"DPP":77,"MCP":53,"UTM":8,"UDF":4,"PP":3}},"region_winners":{"Thyolo":"DPP","Mulanje":"DPP","Phalombe":"DPP","Zomba":"DPP","Mangochi":"DPP","Chiradzulu":"DPP","Blantyre":"DPP","Balaka":"DPP","Mwanza":"DPP","Neno":"DPP","Chikwawa":"DPP","Nsanje":"DPP","Salima":"DPP","Ntcheu":"DPP","Nkhata Bay":"DPP","Mzimba":"DPP","Lilongwe":"MCP","Dowa":"MCP","Mchinji":"MCP","Ntchisi":"MCP"},"region_meta":{"election":"2025 Malawian general election (16 September 2025) \u00b7 presidential first round","source":"Malawi Electoral Commission, official results as declared","note":"District shaded by the presidential winner. Peter Mutharika (DPP) won outright in a landslide, sweeping the Southern Region and taking several central and northern districts; Lazarus Chakwera's Malawi Congress Party held its Lilongwe-area heartland. Districts where the district and city councils split or the margin was narrow (including Kasungu, Dedza, Nkhotakota, Machinga and parts of the far north) are omitted."},"has_geo":true,"next_election":{"date":"2030-09","title":"Malawian general election","chamber":"Presidency & National Assembly","type":"expected"}}