Mount Darwin West is a
constituency
An electoral district, also known as an election district, legislative district, voting district, constituency, riding, ward, division, or (election) precinct is a subdivision of a larger State (polity), state (a country, administrative region, ...
represented in the
National Assembly
In politics, a national assembly is either a unicameral legislature, the lower house of a bicameral legislature, or both houses of a bicameral legislature together. In the English language it generally means "an assembly composed of the repre ...
of the
Parliament of Zimbabwe. Its current MP since the
2023 general election is
Witness Jonga of
ZANU–PF
The Zimbabwe African National Union – Patriotic Front (ZANU–PF) is a political organisation which has been the ruling party of Zimbabwe since independence in 1980. The party was led for many years under Robert Mugabe, first as prime ministe ...
.
Members
Election results
In the
2008 parliamentary election, Vice-President
Joyce Mujuru
Joice Runaida Mujuru ( née Mugari; born 15 April 1955), also known by her nom-de-guerre Teurai Ropa Nhongo, is a Zimbabwean revolutionary and politician who served as Vice-President of Zimbabwe from 2004 to 2014. Previously she had served as a ...
was the
ZANU–PF
The Zimbabwe African National Union – Patriotic Front (ZANU–PF) is a political organisation which has been the ruling party of Zimbabwe since independence in 1980. The party was led for many years under Robert Mugabe, first as prime ministe ...
candidate. She faced two Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) candidates, Madzudzo Gora from the
MDC–T, the formation supporting
Morgan Tsvangirai, and Joseph Shanya from the
MDC–M, the faction supporting
Arthur Mutambara.
Both official results released by the
Zimbabwe Electoral Commission and those announced by independent/opposition groups indicated that Mujuru won with a large majority.
The following results are the official results.
Bannwell Seremwe of
ZANU–PF
The Zimbabwe African National Union – Patriotic Front (ZANU–PF) is a political organisation which has been the ruling party of Zimbabwe since independence in 1980. The party was led for many years under Robert Mugabe, first as prime ministe ...
was elected MP for the constituency in a 2015 by-election, and was reelected in the
2018 general election.
See also
*
List of Zimbabwean parliamentary constituencies
{{Politics of Zimbabwe
The following is a list of parliamentary constituencies in Zimbabwe, as broken down by province.
The National Assembly consists of 270 members. Of these, 210 are elected in single-member constituencies of roughly equal si ...
References
External links
*https://web.archive.org/web/20080303001109/http://www.newzimbabwe.com/pages/electoral159.17766.html
*https://web.archive.org/web/20080404060118/http://www.sokwanele.com/election2008/constituency
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Mashonaland Central Province
Parliamentary constituencies in Zimbabwe