ZESN - Promoting Democratic Elections in Zimbabwe Analysis of the outcomes of the National Alliance had the highest number of double Assembly Nomination Court candidates, with two candidates in constituencies An analysis of the Nomination Court results such as Mazowe North, Mazowe South, Mazowe indicated that, of all the contesting political West, Muzarabani North, Goromonzi West, Bikita parties, only ZANU-PF managed to field East, Gutu Central, Gutu North, Gutu West, candidates for all the 210 National Assembly Masvingo South, and Zaka West. Table 9 shows 37 the number of candidates fielded by each of the seats . The MDC Alliance failed to field major parties. candidates in four constituencies namely Mbare, Hurungwe East, Chiredzi West and Insiza North. The PRC Table 9: Candidates Fielded by the Main Political Parties sought to contest in 74% of the Political party Total Number of Number of Number of constituencies, failing to field candidates number of constituencies constituencies fielded in the candidates with more than where parties candidates in 54 constituencies. 210 one candidate did not field The Thokozani Khupe led constituencies candidates MDC-T contested in 52% of the ZANU-PF 210 211 1 0 210 seats, having forgone MDC Alliance 206 220 14 4 fielding candidates in 101 156 157 1 54 constituencies. In some cases, PRC 109 110 1 101 the contesting political parties MDC-T had more than one candidate NPF 94 95 1 116 seeking election on the party CODE 43 44 1 167 ticket (twin-candidature) in the ZAPU 36 37 1 174 same constituency. The MDC Figure 5 below shows the numbers of candidates for National Assembly elections by Province. Fig 5: Number of candidates for the National Assembly by province Number of candidates 400 319 300 200 204 194 100 159 121 99 140 178 135 99 0 l Bu a yo wa ce vin o Pr H a ar re in ov Pr ce an l ica an d M M h as a al on nd n Ce tra M l h as a on la nd st Ea h as M a on la nd es W t vin as M go M e el ab t a la nd No rth ab at M a el el nd u So th M i a dl nd s Provinces Source: http://www.zec.gov.zw Unopposed Local Authority Wards Of the 1958 local authority wards in Zimbabwe, 90 were unopposed for the 2018 harmonised elections of which 84 had only ZANU-PF candidates while the MDC Alliance fielded 6 candidates for the remainder of the unopposed wards. The lists of unopposed38 wards were provided in the detailed ZESN report on the Nomination Court. 37 Statistics relating to candidates are based on the Government Gazette listing the Nomination Court results for the National Assembly Direct Election published on the 22 June 2018. The report does not factor in changes that happened thereafter such as the withdrawal of some candidates. http://www.zec.gov.zw/election-notice-board/nomination-court/file/496-results-of-nomination-courts-for-local-authorities 38 40 REPORT ON THE 30 JULY 2018 HARMONISED ELECTIONS ZESN