ZESN - Promoting Democratic Elections in Zimbabwe reverse the error, Gift Konjana filed an application with the Electoral Court seeking an order for the setting aside and invalidation of the election result. In addition, the petitioner sought an order of the Electoral Court declaring him the winner and duly elected member of the National Assembly for the Chegutu West Constituency. revised the margin of votes received by President Mnangagwa from 50.8% to 50.67% noting that there were some errors and double counting in some constituencies. Errors in Presidential Election Results The ZEC Presidential Results for the 10,984 polling stations had some errors albeit marginal to the extent of not affecting the outcome. An analysis of the results for the parliamentary elections and the presidential elections does not show significant discrepancies between the two. There were 4,773,171 total valid votes for the parliamentary elections compared to 4,774,878 for the presidential election - a difference of 43,490 votes or 0.9%. Overall, Nelson Chamisa received 508,458 more votes in the presidential election than MDC Alliance did in the parliamentary elections while Mnangagwa received 22,682 fewer votes in the presidential election than ZANU-PF did in the parliamentary elections. In those constituencies where the number of votes in the presidential election was significantly higher than the parliamentary election (2% or more), Chamisa received 18,224 more votes than Mnangagwa. However, Electoral Court Judge, Justice Mary Zimba Dube dismissed with costs the electoral petition citing that it did not meet the rules governing election petitions. In particular, Justice Dube noted that the petition did not comply with the requirements of Rule 21. In dismissing the case, the Court ordered the Registrar of the Electoral Court to serve copies the court order on ZEC and Clerk of the Parliament of Zimbabwe. Presidential Results ZEC announced that President Emmerson Mnangagwa had won the election with 50.8% of the vote and MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa came second with 44.3% of the vote. The MDC Alliance quickly rejected the results citing rigging, manipulation of V11 forms and systematic efforts to tamper with the presidential vote. The allegations of the manipulation of presidential election results were followed by a court application to the Constitutional Court by the MDC Alliance which sought to set aside the results as announced by ZEC. Subsequently, the ZEC There are six sets of two polling stations with identical results which suggest that the results for at least one (or possibly both) polling stations are incorrect which affects the results totals. Table 13 below shows polling stations with identical results: Table 13: Polling Stations with Identical Results Polling Stations with Identical Results in ZEC Presidential Results by Polling Station Province Constituency Local Authority Code Nelson Chamisa Emmerson Mnangagwa Harare Harare South Harare Municipality Ward 1 6301HRE0113 B 563 220 Harare Harare South Harare Municipality Ward 1 6301HRE0113 D 563 220 Mash Central Guruve North Guruve RDC Ward 6 7100GVE0602 A 210 321 Mash Central Guruve North Guruve RDC Ward 6 7100GVE0603 A 210 321 Masvingo Zaka West Zaka RDC Ward 22 8300ZKA2203 92 160 Masvingo Zaka West Zaka RDC Ward 23 8300ZKA2303 92 160 Masvingo Zaka West Zaka RDC Ward 22 8300ZKA2204 100 163 Masvingo Zaka West Zaka RDC Ward 23 8300ZKA2304 100 163 Masvingo Zaka West Zaka RDC Ward 22 8300ZKA2201 139 160 Masvingo Zaka West Zaka RDC Ward 23 8300ZKA2301 139 160 Masvingo Zaka West Zaka RDC Ward 22 8300ZKA2202 116 352 Masvingo Zaka West Zaka RDC Ward 23 8300ZKA2302 Total Affected 116 352 2 440 2 752 61 REPORT ON THE 30 JULY 2018 HARMONISED ELECTIONS ZESN