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Edgar Lungu take over lead after 22 constituencies are officially announced

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President Edgar Lungu
President Edgar Lungu

President Edgar Lungu has again taken lead in the presidential race with 22 constituencies announced so far.

President Lungu has now polled 207,547 followed by Hakainde Hichilema of the UPND with 153,630, with Edith Nawakwi in third at 2,519

UNIP’s Tilyenji Kaunda has 1,104 and Savior Chishimba of the UPP has 747.

Andyford Banda from PAC has 1,303 votes followed by the Rainbow party with 901 votes while the DA has 225 and the Green Party has polled 521.

Electoral Commission of Zambia Chairperson Justice Essau Chulu announced presidential results for the additional 14 constituencies during the latest briefing at 12 Hours.

And Patriotic front (PF) Lubansenshi constituency candidate George Mwamba has won the seat after amassing 10, 473 votes from 41 polling stations in Lubansenshi constituency.

Lubansenshi Constituency Returning Officer Chansa Mwila declared George Mwamba winner after he scored 10, 473 ballots beating his closet rival UPND’s Patrick Mucheleka who polled 4, 687 while Florence Chipalo of MMD got 1, 250 votes.

Mr. Mwamba was declared duly elected as Member of Parliament for Lubansenshi constituency around 23:58 hours last night.

In the presidential race, PF candidate Edgar Chagwa Lungu scored 12, 963 votes beating his rival Hakainde Hichilema of the United Party for National Development (UPND) who scooped 3, 300 votes, while People’s Alliance for Change (PAC) President Andyford Banda scored 314 and Maxwell Mwamba of Democratic alliance DA got 45 votes.

United Progressive People (UPP) candidate Saviour Chishimba scored 39 votes, Wynter Kabimba of Rainbow party got 36 votes while UNIP’s Tilyenji Kaunda and FDD Edith Nawakwi got 27 votes each while Green Party’s Peter Sinkamba polled 14 ballots.

Mr. Mwila said 17, 189 people cast their votes in Lubansenshi constituency which has 41 polling station of which 424 ballot papers were rejected.

In Lufwanyama,Verification of results for all the 67 polling stations in Lufwanyama district on the Copperbelt has come to a close.

Lufwanyama Returning Officer Mwiinde Mtonga has announced the final results as follows, which saw UPND’s Hakainde Hichilema get 9,273 votes while Edgar Lungu of the PF got 5,051.

Kaunda Tilyenji of UNIP managed 114, People’s Alliance for Change (PAC) candidate, Banda Andyford had 65, Rainbow Party’s Wynter Kabimba got 65 and United progressive People (UPP) Chishimba Saviour scored 35 votes.

Nawakwim Edith of the Forum for Democracy and development (FDD) got 23 votes and was closely trailed by Green Party’s PeterSinkamba with 17 votes

and democratic alliance DA’s Mwamba Maxwell with 11 votes.

In the parliamentary race, Leonard Fungulwe of the UPND got 8,154 and was followed by Athanase kaleleka of PF with 4,272 while Anne Munshya of MMD had 1,368 and Rodgers Chimena of rainbow had 618.

Mrs. Mtonga further declares that a total of 15,212 votes were cast whereas a total of 558 ballot papers were rejected.

Meanwhile, in the Mayoral elections, Moses Chiyuka for UPND got 9,195 votes, PF’s Kunka Kabunda got 5,196 votes and Chibwe Philson for the Rainbow Party got 699 votes respectively.

And for the Referendum total votes cast were 11, 700 out of which 4,421 had a No vote, 5,185 had a Yes vote and a total number of 2,094 were rejected ballots.

Meanwhile, the incoming Member of Parliament for Lufwanyama constituency Leonard Fungulwe has pledged his commitment to ensuring that more developmental projects continue taking place in the district once he resumes office.

Mr. Fungulwe noted that Lufwanyama is rich with natural resources such as minerals which the local people must benefit from hence his coming to office as Member of Parliament will make sure that the mine owners in the area give priority to the local people with job opportunities.

In terms of education, Mr. Fungulwe states that his plan is to provide educational loans to the local people so that more people should be educated.

He noted that a lot needs to be done in order for the district to be well developed.

He has since appealed to the losing candidates to accept the outcome of the results and work with him to ensure that the district is fully developed and also to improve the livelihood of the people in the district.

In Itezhi Tezhi constituency, the opposition United Party for National Development (UPND) presidential candidate Hakainde Hichilema has won in Itezhi Tezhi constituency in Central Province after polling 23,422 votes.

The UPND presidential candidate was followed by the ruling Patriotic Front candidate Edgar Lungu, who polled a total of 1,958 votes.

This is after final results from all the polling stations in all the 13 wards of Itezhi Tezhi constituency were announced.

Edith Nawakwi of the Forum for Democracy and Development (FDD) polled 35 votes and Chishimba Saviour of UPP got 59 votes followed by Kaunda Tilyenji of UNIP who polled a total of 20 votes.

Rainbow Party presidential candidate Wynter Kabimba polled 114 votes while Maxwell Mwamba of the DA polled 4 votes and Peter Sinkamba of the green party polled 17 votes while Banda Andyford of PAC polled 7 votes.

There were 603 ballot papers rejected as invalid ballot papers.

Meanwhile the UPND has scooped the Itezhi Tezhi parliamentary seat after its candidate Herbert Shabula polled 21,024 in Thursday’s elections.

Returning officer Gaphine Walubita declared Herbert Shabula as the duly elected Member of Parliament of the Itezhi Tezhi constituency around 01:30 hours this morning.

Mr Shabula was trailed by immediate past MP in the area Greyford Monde who amassed 2,524 votes.

Sheikh Chifuwe of the Rainbow Party grabbed 1757 votes while FDD’S Irene Shilupizhi amassed 180 votes.

Opposition UPND has also scooped the seat of District council chairperson after its candidate Chilombo Gift polled 22, 645 against Francis Lubasi of PF who polled 1,882.

In Solwezi the United Party for National Development (UPND) has won Solwezi Central and West constituency seats in Solwezi and Kalumbila districts respectively.

The UPND has also taken the Solwezi Mayoral seat.

UPND Solwezi Central candidate Stafford Mulusa polled 35,205 beating former Local Government Deputy Minister and PF candidate Dawson Kafwaya who got 10,540 while Monty Mwansa of the Green party only managed 407 votes.

In the mayoral race, Nicholas Mukumbi was declared winner after polling 35,497 beating his rival Sande Kayumba of the PF who got 9,986. FDD’s Marc Kalemba got 697 and Jairos Lukomba of the Green Party polled 386 votes.

Returning officer Evans Kamwana declared Mr Mulusa and Mr Mukumbi as winners of the Solwezi central and Mayoral seats at about 00: 18 hours this morning.

In Solwezi West, UPND’s Teddy Kasonso has defended his seat after polling 20,419 beating PF’s Marjorie Dauchi who got 2,483 votes while FDD’s Nathan Bukonke polled 2,686.

Solwezi West returning officer Geoffrey Kaleji declared Mr Kasonso as the duly elected MP for Solwezi West constituency in the newly created district of Kalumbila at about 00:15 hours this morning.

Solwezi Central has 81,344 registered voters with 36 polling stations while Solwezi West has 44,756 voters and 47 polling stations.

The Next ECZ briefing is at 14:40 hrs

24 COMMENTS

    • Wait for ECL and his team, he is coming in style throwning kitchen sink politics of under 5 and the so called cartel in a life time political quagmire. Forewarning is forearming.

    • From 22 constituencies, ECL takes lead of 53,917 with 16 of his stronghold while HH with only 6 of his stronghold..HH must be doing fine

    • HH is roasted……I told you the winner as soon as the polls closed…..

      AUGUST 11 EDGAR HAS WON THE ELECTIONS

      I thank you

    • Your ECL is now just part of history because he is going nowher. Just wait for Southern, Western, Central and N/Western provinces count. HH has gained from then PF stronghold.

    • The only win ECL will get is that of his dancing to Dununa tune. I have reliably informed that JK will this evening be presenting awards to the best dancer during campaigns. Mumbi Phiri and ECL are top on the list. Don’t miss to tune in.

    • What people are not seeing is that HH has gained in percentage in almost all PF-Strongholds announced so far, whilst Lungu has lost voters where UPND won in 2015.

      For example in Luanshya, a PF Stronghold

      In 2015 LUNGU = 17,547 HH=5,590 lost by almost 12000.

      In the 2016 elections LUNGU = 16,924, HH=9263 lost by only 7661.

      HH lost by only 1%.

      Slow & steady Tortoise wins the race.

    • This is a screen shot of ECZ’s tabulation!!!
      HICHILEMA, Hakainde
      Hakainde HICHILEMA UPND 514,816
      LUNGU, Edgar C
      Edgar LUNGU PF 511,386
      NAWAKWI, Edith Z
      Edith NAWAKWI FDD 7,440
      BANDA, Andyford M
      Andyford BANDA PAC 4,066
      KAUNDA, Tilyenji C
      Tilyenji KAUNDA UNIP 2,864
      KABIMBA, Wynter M
      Wynter KABIMBA RAINBOW 2,474
      CHISHIMBA, Saviour
      Saviour CHISHIMBA UPP 2,147
      SINKAMBA, Peter C
      Peter SINKAMBA GREENS 1,309
      MWAMBA, Maxwell
      Maxwell MWAMBA DA 697

  1. No need to worry….Katondo boys has already announced the winner…..this is just for formalities sake….

    August 11 Edgar has just won the elections

    I thank you

    • And where does Zimbabwe come in? Just shows how much of a moron you are, always drawing comparisons with the worst that is available…. Grow up!

  2. ECL Projected winner
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    Its weird how losers keep playing down the daunting task the ECZ have put up so far. Victory for ECL is certain in more areas and manner of reasoning than one. Let haters and the hurting go hung if they don’t like it. I mean democracy is in the numbers. Give Democracy a chance y’all.

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