{"iso":"ZW","name":"Zimbabwe","flag":"\ud83c\uddff\ud83c\uddfc","vote":"National Assembly \u00b7 official result, not competitive","model":"noncomp","updated":"2023-08-23","source":"2023 election result, official count","credit":"No regular published national polling. Shares are the National Assembly party vote of 23 August 2023, official results as published by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission. Observer missions including SADC said the vote fell short of regional and international standards, and the concurrent presidential count gave Emmerson Mnangagwa 52.6 percent. Parties below one percent are aggregated as others.","shares":{"ZANU":56.2,"CCC":41.5,"OTH":2.3},"polls":[],"parties":{"ZANU":{"name":"ZANU-PF","color":"#0F7B3E"},"CCC":{"name":"Citizens Coalition for Change","color":"#FFD400"},"OTH":{"name":"Other parties and independents","color":"#9a9a9a"}},"primer":{"system":"Presidential republic under dominant-party rule","head_of_state":"President Emmerson Mnangagwa (ZANU-PF)","legislature":"National Assembly of 280 seats and a Senate.","electoral_system":"The president is directly elected in up to two rounds. Assembly seats mix first-past-the-post races with proportional women's seats.","government_now":"ZANU-PF, in power since independence in 1980, governs after a 2023 vote that SADC and other observers said fell short of standards.","context":"A push by party loyalists to extend Mnangagwa's rule to 2030 has stirred rare open friction within the ruling establishment. Hyperinflation's legacy persists, with the gold-backed ZiG the sixth currency attempt in 15 years. The next general election is due in 2028.","sources":"Cross-checked against the English-language MediaWiki encyclopedic record via its public API, 2 July 2026."},"parties_info":{"ZANU":["ZANU-PF","Zimbabwe African National Union - Patriotic Front","Left-nationalist liberation party that has ruled since independence in 1980, now under Emmerson Mnangagwa; dominant with 177 of 280 seats."],"CCC":["Citizens Coalition for Change","","Main opposition, founded in 2022 by Nelson Chamisa out of the old MDC; pro-democracy, won 103 seats before internal splits and recalls."],"OTH":["Other parties and independents","","Minor parties and independents that together won no National Assembly seats in 2023."]},"seats_now":{"chamber":"National Assembly","as_of":"2023 election","total":280,"seats":{"ZANU":177,"CCC":103,"OTH":0}},"region_winners":{"Harare":"CCC","Bulawayo":"CCC","Matabeleland North":"CCC","Matabeleland South":"ZANU","Manicaland":"ZANU","Mashonaland Central":"ZANU","Mashonaland East":"ZANU","Mashonaland West":"ZANU","Masvingo":"ZANU","Midlands":"ZANU"},"region_meta":{"election":"2023 Zimbabwean general election (23 August 2023) \u00b7 National Assembly","source":"official results as published by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission","note":"Each province shaded by the party that won the most directly-elected National Assembly constituency seats there in 2023: ZANU-PF held its rural strongholds while the Citizens Coalition for Change won the two cities, Harare and Bulawayo, and a majority of seats in Matabeleland North; the women's-quota and youth proportional seats are not reflected."},"has_geo":true,"next_election":{"date":"2030","title":"Zimbabwean general election","chamber":"National Assembly","type":"expected"}}