{"iso":"TZ","name":"Tanzania","flag":"\ud83c\uddf9\ud83c\uddff","vote":"Presidential vote \u00b7 official result, not competitive","model":"noncomp","updated":"2025-10-29","source":"2025 election result, official count","credit":"No regular published national polling. Shares are the presidential vote of 29 October 2025, official results as published by the National Electoral Commission. The main opposition parties Chadema and ACT-Wazalendo were barred from the ballot, opposition leader Tundu Lissu was on trial for treason, and the vote was followed by deadly protests and an internet shutdown. Candidates below one percent are aggregated as others.","shares":{"CCM":97.7,"OTH":2.3},"polls":[],"parties":{"CCM":{"name":"Chama Cha Mapinduzi","color":"#0F7B3E"},"OTH":{"name":"Other candidates and parties","color":"#9a9a9a","name_en":"Fifteen other candidates"}},"primer":{"system":"Presidential republic under dominant-party rule","head_of_state":"President Samia Suluhu Hassan (CCM)","legislature":"National Assembly, about 400 members including reserved women's seats.","electoral_system":"The president is directly elected by plurality. Assembly members are elected first-past-the-post with additional reserved seats.","government_now":"Samia was credited with 97.66 percent in a vote foreign observers called neither free nor credible, with the two main opposition parties excluded.","context":"CCM and its predecessor have governed continuously since independence, one of Africa's longest runs in power. The 2025 election was followed by deadly unrest and an internet shutdown, and the next general election is due in 2030.","sources":"Cross-checked against the English-language MediaWiki encyclopedic record via its public API, 2 July 2026."},"parties_info":{"CCM":["Chama Cha Mapinduzi","Party of the Revolution","Dominant big-tent ruling party; it and its predecessor have governed continuously since independence, and it holds the presidency and a parliamentary supermajority."],"OTH":["Other candidates and parties","","Everything outside the ruling party, chiefly the barred opposition parties Chadema and ACT-Wazalendo plus a handful of elected, appointed and Zanzibar-nominated members."]},"seats_now":{"chamber":"National Assembly","as_of":"2025 election","total":403,"seats":{"CCM":383,"OTH":20}},"has_geo":true,"geo_meta":{"kind":"admin1","source":"Natural Earth 10m admin-1 states/provinces (nvkelso/natural-earth-vector), retrieved 2026-07-02","note":"Region set and any internationally-disputed territories follow the Natural Earth source dataset. Far overseas/outlying territories may fall outside the primary map frame."},"next_election":{"date":"2030","title":"Tanzanian presidential election","chamber":"President","type":"expected"}}