Sham election results from the Presidential run-off poll

Sokwanele Article: June 29th, 2008

On March 29th 2008, Robert Mugabe polled total votes of 1,079,730. Somehow, despite mass intimidation, gross violence, increasing poverty, murders, and hyper-inflation, Robert Mugabe's popularity accelerated faster than our inflation figures (which is quite something) and he managed to secure himself an extra 1,070,539 votes on 27 June 2008. He has effectively doubled his vote.

Do not forget that Morgan Tsvangirai withdrew from this poll and a call to boycott the elections was circulated and supported in many areas (see Sokwanele round-ups on the day of the polls here and here). The Pan African Parliamentary observers have independently also confirmed an extremely low turnout, but this is not reflected in the turnout figures below.

There are two rows per province in the table; the yellow highlighed row shows the results for March 29th 2008, excluding the other two candidates who competed on that day. The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) have not released the results on a constituency basis so we cannot make detailed comparisons.

Please visit our Election 2008 page for details of this poll, and the polls for March 29th 2008.

Province	Tsvangirai	Mugabe	Spoilt	Totals	Turnout
Bulawayo 27/6	13291	21127	9166	43584	14%
Bulawayo 29/3	49657	11118	551	97236	30%
Harare 27/6	48307	156478	36447	241232	31%
Harare 29/3	227166	61215	1452	315449	40%
Manicaland 27/6	29561	323284	17525	370370	48%
Manicaland 29/3	212029	141592	6061	375159	48%
Mashonaland Central 27/6	4066	276912	3409	284387	54%
Mashonaland Central 29/3	75722	157626	4080	245345	47%
Mashonaland East 27/6	11171	315119	7675	333965	51%
Mashonaland East 29/3	119661	160965	4578	297312	45%
Mashonaland West 27/6	18459	256699	10821	285979	46%
Mashonaland West 29/3	107345	134730	3275	258436	41%
Masvingo 27/6	12804	321404	9740	343948	46%
Masvingo 29/3	145198	156672	7318	323563	44%
Matabeleland North 27/6	40099	84185	9907	134191	37%
Matabeleland North 29/3	70611	42825	3596	154708	42%
Matabeleland South 27/6	21687	92654	7353	121694	34%
Matabeleland South 29/3	34885	46156	2541	121724	34%
Midlands 27/6	33555	302407	19438	355400	45%
Midlands 29/3	153288	166831	5363	347150	44%
Total 27/6:	233000	2150269	131481	2514750	42.4%
Total 29/3:	1195562	1079730	38815	2536082	42.7%
Percentage 27/6	9.8%	90.2%	---	100%	---
Percentage 29/3	47.9%	43.2%	---	100%*	---