.Table 4:
Party support and related categories of vote response across the provinces, 2010 and 2012
Vote declaration
Year
MDC-T
2012
2010
17
50
29
51
25
36
22
37
18
33
6
34
6
20
ZANU-PF
2012
2010
22
8
15
4
29
19
42
17
42
15
35
25
ZAPU-Dabengwa
2012
2010
6
4
6
-
1
-
MDC-M
2012
2010
-
3
2
2
-
MDC-N
2012
2010
1
4
-
-
Other
2012
2010
1
1
My vote my secret
2012
2010
34
29
Don’t know Not sure
2012
2010
Not vote Abstain
Refuse
TOTAL
Harare Bulaw Midln
MatN
Manic
23
37
20
49
31
40
50
39
22
13
13
8
34
17
-
-
4
2
-
-
-
-
1
-
2
-
1
1
-
-
-
-
2
-
-
-
2
-
3
4
1
1
-
2
1
22
13
25
21
28
19
27
27
36
24
32
26
25
14
43
27
17
22
4
3
6
1
7
3
1
4
1
4
2
4
4
2
13
5
7
3
4
5
2012
2010
11
3
10
17
6
13
2
8
3
6
8
6
4
8
10
12
10
8
2
3
2012
2010
13
4
7
5
6
6
3
12
8
12
13
7
2
5
2
14
5
3
11
11
100
100
100
100
100
100
100
100
Masvi
MashE MashW MashC MatS
100
100
Notes: Abbreviations for the provinces: Harare; Bulaw=Bulawayo; Midln=Midlands; Masvi=Masvingo; MashE=Mashonaland East;
MashW=Mashonaland West; MashC=Mashonaland Central; MatS=Matabeleland South; MatH=Matabeleland North; Manic=Manicaland;
Due to rounding not all total add up to exactly 100%.
Provincial breakdown of party support and related vote response categories
Table 4 offers valuable details on the growth of the ‘my vote is my secret’ category. This means that a
certain amount of caution is required in interpreting the responses in declaring party support for the
‘tomorrow’ election that respondents were asked to imagine in the survey. The proportion of responses
in this category rose in eight of the ten provinces, modestly declined in one, and remained stable in
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