Mariam Omar is a

Zanzibar Zanzibar (; ; ) is an insular semi-autonomous province which united with Tanganyika in 1964 to form the United Republic of Tanzania. It is an archipelago in the Indian Ocean, off the coast of the mainland, and consists of many small islands ...

i politician and member of the

Sauti ya Umma Sauti ya Umma (SAU, People's Voice) is a political party in Tanzania. The party was registered on 17 February 2005. In elections for the Zanzibar Presidency and House of Representatives on 30 October 2005, SAU presidential candidate Mariam Oma ...

(SAU) party. Running as the SAU candidate in the 30 October 2005 Zanzibar

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, Omar finished last out of six candidates, receiving 0.07% of the vote. She is the first woman ever to contest the Zanzibar presidency.

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Zanzibari politicians Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Sauti ya Umma politicians 21st-century Tanzanian women politicians {{Zanzibar-politician-stub