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UPND wins all Southern Province ward seats

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THE opposition United Party for National Development (UPND) has scooped all the four Local Government by-elections held in the four districts in Southern Province on yesterday.

In Batoka Ward in Choma District, UPND councilor, Judge Hambayi polled a total of 1,481 votes against his closet contender Maxon Simwami of Patriotic Front (PF) who got 164 from all the four polling centres in the ward.

MMD aspiring councillor Victor Mwiinga polled 38 votes. Batoka Ward returning officer Chiko Chileshe declared Mr Hambayi as councilor for Batoka Ward seat which fell vacate after recent resignation of UPND area councilor Mr Simwami who joined PF.

Mr Hambayi said shortly after he was declared winner around 23; 00 hours on Tuesday at Batoka Basic School polling centre that he would work hard to improve the lives of local people.

“ I am happy I have won n I want to assure the people of Batoka that I will represent the ably at Choma Municipal Council in line with their expectations,” he said.

In Chitongo Ward in Namwala District, UPND candidate Joseph Chvwanga polled a total of 857 votes again this closet contender Steurt Banda of PF got 159 while MMD candidate Happious Mwaka got 44 from the four polling centres in the ward.

In Moomba Ward in Monze West, UPND candidate Clement Hamakala got a total of 1,380 votes while his opponent PF’s Francis Hangonga polled 221 votes.

In Siavonga District’s Mulinda Ward, however, the returning officer was unreachable by press time, but PF Southern Province Chairperson Daniel Mukombwe said the party had lost the seat.

‘We have lost all the four seats in the province but PF is a strong and the biggest party in Zambia. The party is growing from strength to strength and we have won the Mangango seat in Kaoma,” he said yesterday when Local Government deputy Minister Forrie Tembo paid a courtesy call on him.

13 COMMENTS

    • @Obatala,if i may take you back to a few weeks ago when you hh visited chief puta.You,your fellow upnd fanatics and your almighty zwd sung the loudest that luapula had gone upnd.Is this what you guys were celebrating? Thanks to mama Nalumango for her “hard work” keep on deceiving and chewing that hh’s millions.

    • Mbewe——

      You are wrong.

      Munkombwe, who went to campaign there is Tonga. Why did they not listen to him. Are you saying the people of Luapula also voted on tribal lines? If that is the case, then, the party in power must be concerned if the country is divided on tribal lines 47 years after independence (i.e. after 2011 elections to be specific). Zambia never expected such tribal differences since the 1970s. KK must be secretly wondering how he has failed to influence the PF leadership on this issue. Of course he is not comfortable to say this publicly.

  1. UPND, are one sided party. come 2016 we thump them more. Viva PF.You can rule a country like this and what if you were at plot 1. We could see this position Tonga, That position Tonga ETC. That is why people of Zambia are very wise.

    • You people you are biased and when Bembas vote for themselves which is PF in their home area no one talks of tribalism but when your UPND wins in thier province you say they are tribalists, who is who here? Bakolwe basekanefipato. I believe in democracy but I see 2016, all the UNIP, MMD shall go UPND and we shall see because the big man Sata will have dropped from the race and be replaced with June Kabimba, the favorite for Mumembe

  2. Thumbs up to UPND and Southern Province. They turn up in large numbers to vote for their party. Just think of it, in Moomba Ward, UPND got 1,380, PF got 221. The margin here is abnormally huge. What does it reflect. It reflects the avowed hatred for the ruling party. It also reflects entrenched regionalism and desire to propel HH onto plot one. How I wish this homogenous voting was replicated throughout the country. HH would have ruled starting from 2006. Alas, the chap can only amass votes of this kind in Southern Province. Else where he can’t, he has never, he will never. This is the unfortunate reality for HH and his followers. Ruling Zambia will forever remain a pipedream. Yangu bulanda kuchipaso mwebantu!

  3. Yes Zambians know that HH and UPND have southern province till the end of the world.
    How I wish southern was Zambia so that HH and UPND rules. Alass, it is just a 15 % of the total vote.

  4. Regional block voting is a reality in politics. IN US and UK they safe seats for each party and elections are won or lost in swing states. It is therefore not strange that Southern, Western and North-Western Provinces should be a safe zones for UPND while Luapula, Muchinga and Northern may be safe zones for PF. The real battle for the big two parties (UPND and PF) will be won in the swing provinces of Lusaka, Copperbelt, Central and Eastern. Wise politicians spend their time and energies developing strategies on how to win over the swing zones. This is where HH is weakest as he tends to focus on his safe zones while his language and mannerism tend to scare away voters in areas where he is weakest. “How does a wise politician proclaim that all PF development is concentrated in Muchinga”?…

    • Let us be factual.North Western and Western Provinces are not safe provinces for UPND and you can go back to 2006 if you are in doubt . UPND got 35%total share of votes in North western province and only 28% total share in Western Province in 2011 elections. Further Lusaka & Copperbelt
      provinces are strongholds for PF and again you can go back to 2006 if you are in doubt. PF amassed 55%in Lusaka and about 70% in Copperbelt provinces during the recent election in 2011 . A party can only claim a province to be it’s stronghold if that party enjoys at least 50% of it’s total vote likeisthecasewithPFinLusaka,Copperbelt,Luapula&Northen(Muchinga&Northern) Provinces . UPND can not claim North Western &Western Provinces to be their strongholds because it’s support in the 2…

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