ZEC : 141 constituencies declared
Ten more seats have been announced. This means a total of 141 constituencies have now been formally declared by the ZEC. Zanu PF are still leading by two seats (with a total of 69) and the MDC Tsvangirai are still behind with 2 seats (67 in total so far). MDC Mutambara still have 5 seats.
Buhera West
MDC MT 8527 / ZPF 6773 / IND 290 /
Chikomba West
ZPF 9173 / MDC MT 4609 /
Chipinge South
MDC MT 8248 / ZPF 5085 / MDC AM 1974 / Donga 343 / PAFA 309 /
Chivi Central
ZPF 8228 / MDC MT 6471 / IND 452 /
Dangamvura Chikanga
MDC MT 9965 / ZPF 3654 / MDC AM 1073 / IND 310 /
Magunje
ZPF 4587 / MDC MT 4264 / MDC AM 1607 / UPP 294 /
Mkoba
MDC MT 8590 / ZPF 2334 / MDC AM 619 / IND 373 / IND 158 /
Mutasa Central
MDC MT 9228 / ZPF 4746 / MDC AM 1381 / IND 357 /
Mwenezi East
ZPF 9696 / MDC MT 2477 / IND 588 /
Shurugwi South
ZPF 5058 / MDC MT 1977 / IND 1946 / MDC AM 754 / MDC MT 553 / IND 419 /
April 1st, 2008 19:41
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April 1st, 2008 19:46
Is anyone making a list of discrepancies between PVT and ZEC? It seems important
For example, how can almost 3000 extra votes appear in Mberengwa West between close of poll and the ZEC counting??? - look at the totals:
Mp Party PVT ZEC
Joram Macdonald Gumbo ZanuPF 4119 5508
Gwatipedza Dube MDC Tsvangirai 1520 2912
Calvin Trust Silape Independent 0 315
Totals 5639 8735
April 1st, 2008 19:49
Hi,
Have you seen the speculation on the BBC about Mugabe agreeing to step down? First ‘MDC sources’ say it is happening, then Zanu PF (Bright Mutonga) says it is not, then the SA govt (Mbeki spokesman) says it is not, then even the MDC (Nelson Chamisa) says it is not… doesn’t look likely, but I hope I’m wrong and the first report is right.
April 1st, 2008 19:49
Sorry, hard to read in above format. It is:
Total votes for Mberengwa West constituency
PVT - 5639
ZEC - 8735
April 1st, 2008 19:50
Yes, but I haven’t seen any instance where SEC disagrees with PVT in terms of who won, just how many votes they got.
April 1st, 2008 19:58
People of Zim you’re true living heroes. Mugabe, Makoni and Zanu PF red carded and Super Sub Morgan More Tsvangirai takes over. Waiting for Morgan’s first press release.
April 1st, 2008 20:05
Further to the above, now the US state department and US embassy in HRE is saying that Mugabe will address the nation on tv soon. And rumour that the US, UK and French ambassadors have been called to a meeting by the government at Miekles Hotel.
April 1st, 2008 20:09
Channel 4 News in UK saying US embassy source saying Mugabe about to address the nation…
April 1st, 2008 20:13
Nothing could be more telling of the degree of greedy and tyrany that has consumed Robert Mugabe as his desperate attempts to delay and rig Presidential results through his diehard cronies at ZEC, in the face of defeat.
This disgraced and senile tyrant who has stretched the tolerance of the people of Zimbabwe to breaking point, has neither the presence of mind nor the sense to discern the end of his hold on events, now unfolding in Zimbabwe.
He can have himself another day or a few more hours of sleep in the cocoon he has conjured up but the reality is the heads of security agencies will have to salute and yield to the will of the people of Zimbabwe.
“How they are rigging the election at this very moment
Mugabe’s spies are using a simple but effective technique to rob Tsvangirai of victory - and not be caught doing it
Harare, Zimbabwe, Tuesday, April 1, 5.0 pm
Sources within the fearsome Central Intelligence Agency (CIO) have told me this afternoon that the Zimbabwe security chiefs, who nearly came to blows yesterday, have reached a compromise - and instructed the CIO to finally fix this election in Mugabe’s favour.
The CIO’s task is to falsify the voting figures in a way that appears to give logical and expected results, and thus becomes unchallengeable. With the eyes of the world on this election, the power men know that any fraud has to be virtually undetectable.
The technique was explained to me by my source, who told me it is being put into effect at this moment. This is how it works.
In the case of the race for the position of President, votes are being stolen from Tsvangirai. The votes have to be credited to another candidate, to keep voting numbers correct. But they are not being given to Mugabe. They go instead to Simba Makoni.
Why? Because there are some areas - Bulawayo is a good example - where Zanu-PF parliamentary candidates have made such a poor showing that any extra votes recorded there for Mugabe, the party leader, would seem illogical, and rightly condemned as evidence of rigging.
But by diminishing Tsvangirai’s vote total and giving the difference to Makoni, Mugabe gains overall, and no-one will query the higher total for Makoni, who in any case was expected to do better than he has.
If this technique is applied across the nation, it will certainly be sufficiently effective to either give Mugabe an overall victory, or at least ensure a runoff.
Virtually the same technique is being applied to fix the parliamentary elections. Only in this case votes are taken from the candidates of the Tsvangirai faction of the MDC, and added to the totals of candidates from the smaller faction led by Arthur Mutambara.
Once again it is Zanu-PF that benefits by cutting down the votes for the Tsvangirai candidates, and giving the seats to the Mutambara faction.
The plan can be seen working already in the so-called official results. The Mutambara faction failed dismally in early returns, but has recently mysteriously gained ground against the Tsvangirai faction, and now commands, for instance, five seats in Matabeleland.
That’s the joint plan to fix these elections, put as simply as I can. Those who wonder why the results are being held back and released so slowly need wonder no more.” (Zimbabwe Today.)
Is there anyone from opposition monitoring the verification process at ZEC?
I just saw a flash on AP that Bob is about to go on Zimbabwe TV to address the nation, is this accurate?
April 1st, 2008 20:14
Bright Matonga (Zanu PF) on the BBC right now saying that Mugabe will not address the nation at all. I hope he’s about to be made a fool of.
April 1st, 2008 20:58
I DO SALUTE DA TRUE HEROES OF ZIM.NOOMATTER HW MANY TIMES ‘HE CHEATS,THE WORKD KNOWS&THIS TIME FREED6 IS OURS!LUV U ZIM.JB-RSA.