constituencies namely Mbare, Hurungwe East, Chiredzi West and Insiza North. The PRC deployed in 74% of the constituencies failing to field candidates in 54 constituencies. The Thokozani Khupe led MDC-T is contesting in 52% of the 210 seats, having forgone to field candidates in 101 constituencies. In some cases, the contesting political parties have cases where they are represented by more than one candidate seeking election on the party ticket (twin-candidature). The MDC Alliance has the highest number of double candidates in constituencies such as Mazowe North, Mazowe South, Mazowe West, Muzarabani North, Goromonzi West, Bikita East, Gutu Central, Gutu North, Gutu West, Masvingo South, and Zaka West. Political party Number of constituencies with more than one candidate ZANU-PF Number of Total number candidates of candidates fielded in the 210 constituencies 210 211 1 Number of constituencies where parties did not field candidates 0 MDC Alliance 206 14 4 220 PRC 156 157 1 MDC-T 109 110 1 NPF 94 95 1 CODE 43 44 1 ZAPU 36 37 1 Fig 4: Analysis of candidates fielded by the main political parties 54 101 116 167 174 Number of constituencies Numbers of constituencies where each party fielded candidates out of the 210 constituencies 210 210 206 156 160 109 110 94 60 43 36 CODE ZAPU 10 -40 ZANU-PF MDC Alliance PRC MDC-T NPF Political Party Fig 5: Number of candidates fielded in the 210 constituencies by political parties Source: http://www.zec.gov.zw 6|Page