A low voter turnout has characterized the Chongwe by-election which started at 06:00 hours this morning.
According to returning officer John Lungu all the 56 polling stations have recorded a low turn out.
Mr. Lungu hoped the number might improveas the day progressed.
And chieftainess Nkomeshya Mukamambo is happy that the election will give the people of Chongwe a representative in parliament.
She says that since parliament started sitting after the September 20 general elections, Chongwe has not been represented.
The traditional leader was speaking to journalists shortly after casting her vote at Chongwe basic school.
The Chongwe seat is being contested by four candidates Silvia Masebo from ruling PF, Adrian Bauleni, of UPND, David Chulu for the FDD and Johanes Mativenga from UNIP.
Meanwhile voter apathy has characterized the Nakonde parliamentary bye-election which had earlier started on a good note.
The poor turnout of voters is contrary to earlier projection by the district returning Officer Titus Walima that voter turnout will be overwhelming.
A check by znbc news team at Nakonde central polling station revealed that by 12hours only 1200 voters had cast their ballots out of the registered 6000 voters.
The situation was worse at Mutowe polling station where only ten out of the registered 309 voters people had cast their votes by 10:50 hours.
Meanwhile Mr. Walima is disappointed with the low turnout of voters.
Mr Walima is however confident that voter turnout will improve by Monday afternoon because most of the voters are still in their fields.
In Magoye voting which started on a positive note in the early hours of Monday has slowed down.
Most polling stations started recording low turn outs shortly after 09:00 hours.
This has been attributed mostly to people going in the fields anticipating to vote later in the day.
A check at Munjile Basic School, which is in the outskirts of Magoye, revealed that only one hundred and ten people had cast their votes by 11:15 hours.
This is out of the total number of four hundred and eighteen registered voters.
[ZNBC]
Waste of resources and time, I don’t blame them
People want to development and arrests.i cant fault em
Something are treasonable. You resign at the expense of tax payers money. We should also review Mp’s who cause unnecessary by elections. Am told there are 62 more to come!
Governance issues are stake here!Â
this is the nonsense we didnt want..creating unnecessary by elections like chongwe..atase..
What are the results?
A predetermined vote never attracts voters.
For those who understand rural politics in zed, this is the villagers’ way of showing displeasure at politics without being traced if they “voted wrongly”.
WITHIN THE 90 DAYS PARAMETER OF PUTTING MORE MONEY INTO PEOPLE’S POCKETS, PEOPLE HAVE REALIZED THAT THEY WERE CHEATED BY PF’S SATA GOVERNMENT.LOW VOTER TUN OUT MEANS DISAPPOINTMENT VOTE OF NO CONFIDENCE TO PF GOVERNMENT. SATA IS A BIG DISAPPOINTMENT TO THE PEOPLE OF ZAMBIA. HE WAS LYING TO THE PEOPLE TO WIN THEIR VOTE.
Zambians are denying themselves true democracy by accepting these PF motivated bye elections. The PF is hell bent on amassing as many seats in parliament as it can so that anything they propose, no matter how detrimental to the country it may be, can go thru unopposed. True democracy can only come about with strong presence of opposition in the house. We are slowing sinking into a one party state, something we strongly fought against.