Distribution of National Assembly Seats75 (Total 270 seats - 210 constituency seats + 60 women’s quota seats) Party Total 1 87 1 1 180 Constituency seats 1 63 -1 145 Party-list seats [women’s quota] -24 1 -35 Independent MDC Alliance MDC-T NPF ZANU PF Total 270 210 60 Distribution of Senate Seats (Total 80 seats - 60 party-list seats + 18 seats for Senator Chiefs, + 2 seats for Senators Representing Disabled Persons) Party Total 24 1 35 18 2 Party-list seats [60] 24 1 35 --- Other seats [20] ---18 2 MDC Alliance MDC-T ZANU PF Senator Chiefs Disabled reps Total 80 60 20 Based on these figures, which at the time of writing were still subject to change following petitions, ZANU-PF has exactly two-thirds of the seats in the Assembly. With regards to the presidential results, chief agents of contesting presidential candidates had access to the national results verification process through to the evening of 2 August. The presidential returns verification process used the ward collation forms, which summarise polling station results for each of the 1,958 wards with relevant polling station returns (form V11) attached.76 The Acting-Chief Election Officer had to verify and display returns forms and allow a candidate and/or chief agents to make notes of the contents of each return form. The National Constitutional Assembly made 13 verification requests and the MDC-Alliance made eight.77 As reported by Election Watch 41/2018 on 18 August 2018, based on ZEC’s published lists of all members declared elected to the new parliament 76 The Electoral Act, section 110, (3) (a) makes reference to ward collation returns as per section 65 (3), however it describes the process in terms of using constituency returns for the verification process. In fact, what ZEC used were the ward returns. The framework lacks clarity on which documents to use, nevertheless, the use of the ward returns provides a more consistent and verifiable approach. 77 At the National Collation Centre it was observed that candidates’ chief agents were not comparing their own copies of the polling station return forms (V11 forms) against those provided by ZEC. The Build Zimbabwe Alliance and the Zimbabwe Partnership for Prosperity chief agents requested the verification of three and one ward respectively. 75 36