Constitution of Zimbabwe (as amended by Constitution Amendment No. 19)
delay submit a report to Parliament on the conduct of every presidential,
parliamentary, provincial council and local authority election and every
referendum.
100J Delimitation of wards and constituencies
(1) The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission shall, no later than the date notified
to it by the President, being a date no later than three months before the date fixed
or to be fixed by a proclamation as the date on which Parliament is dissolved under
section 63(7) or, as the case may be, the date of the dissolution of Parliament under
section 63(4), determine, in accordance with subsections (2) to (7), the limits of the
wards and constituencies into which Zimbabwe is to be divided for the purpose of
electing members of the governing bodies of local authorities and members of
Parliament respectively:
Provided that the Commission shall produce a preliminary report in terms of
subsection (8) no later than one month before the date fixed or to be fixed by a
proclamation as the date on which Parliament is dissolved under section 63(7) or,
as the case may be, the date of the dissolution of Parliament under section 63(4).
(2) For the purpose of the election of members of the governing bodies of
local authorities, local authority areas shall be divided into such number of wards
as the Commission shall determine.
(3) Zimbabwe shall, for the purpose of the election of members of Parliament,
be divided into two hundred and ten House of Assembly constituencies and sixty
senatorial constituencies.
(4) Subject to subsections (5) and (6), the boundaries of the House of
Assembly constituencies shall be such that at the time of delimitation the number
of voters registered in each House of Assembly constituency is as nearly as may be
equal to the number of voters registered in each of the other House of Assembly
constituencies.
(5) In delimiting—
(a) the boundaries of wards, the Commission shall ensure that no ward is
divided between two or more local authority areas; and
(b) the House of Assembly constituencies, the Commission shall ensure that
no ward is divided between two or more House of Assembly
constituencies.
(6) In dividing Zimbabwe into wards and House of Assembly constituencies
the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission shall, in respect of any area, give due
consideration to—
(a) its physical features;
(b) the means of communication within the area;
(c) the geographical distribution of registered voters;
(d) any community of interest as between registered voters; and
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