PROPORTIONAL REPRESENTATION WOMEN'S QUOTA 2018 HARMONISED ELECTIONS BY PROVINCE AND POLITICAL PARTY SER PROVINCE 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Bulawayo Harare Manicaland Mashonaland Central Mashonaland East Mashonaland West Masvingo Matabeleland North Matabeleland South Midlands Total No. OF SEATS 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 60 POLITICAL PARTIES No. OF SEATS MDC-ALLIANCE 3 4 3 1 2 2 2 3 2 2 24 TOTAL MDC-T 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 ZANU PF 2 2 3 5 4 4 4 3 4 4 35 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 60 Of the 210 direct voting national assembly seats, 25 (12%) were won by women and males occupy the remainder of the seats (see Figure 1). Figure 2: Seats won by women (direct voting) 12% 88% Female Males Number of women in the National Assembly Women occupy 85 (31.48%) of the 270 seats in the National Assembly. These seats are a combination of both the quota seats reserved for women and those women elected through direct voting. Zimbabwe is still far from achieving the 50/5011 provided for by the 11 ARTICLE 12 States Parties shall endeavour that, by 2015, at least fifty percent of decision-making positions in the public and private sectors are held by women including the use of affirmative action measures as provided 19