Congress and Progressive Democrats of Zimbabwe having no agents at the polling stations where ZESN had static observers and visited by its mobile teams. Section 95 (1a and b) of the Electoral Act provides for one party agent to be placed inside the polling station and an additional two agents within the vicinity of the same polling station. Thus a political party can have up to three agents per polling station. The failure of the some political parties to deploy agents at polling stations denies the parties an opportunity to make informed assessment of the electoral processes. Voting and Counting Voting went on peacefully throughout the day at polling stations where ZESN visited or had static observers. In addition, counting was conducted in line with the prescribed procedures with results being posted outside the polling stations and at the constituency collating centre. At all polling stations that ZESN observed closing of polling and counting, party agents who were present signed the V11 forms. 8. BY-ELECTION RESULTS The ZANU PF candidate received the most number of votes in all the wards and garnered a total of 9,426 votes, which making up 93% of the total valid votes cast. The runner-up, representing the NCA, was a distant second with only 445 votes, representing only 4 % of the total valid votes. Altogether, the three opposition candidates got just 708 votes. These votes are just 7% of the total votes. 21 | P a g e